The first time I stood in front of a college football team, I had been teaching yoga for years. I was a published author. I had credentials. And within the first five minutes, I knew that the cues I used every day in a studio class were landing like a foreign...
Your 200-hour training probably gave restorative yoga an afternoon—maybe an hour. Someone propped you up in a supported shape, dimmed the lights, and the curriculum moved on. Now your students keep asking for slower classes, the Thursday-evening restorative slot needs...
The first time I felt true rest, I wasn’t trying to. I was deep in Ironman training, carrying the kind of fatigue that made me look forward to dentist appointments—because they meant I got to lie down for forty-five minutes. I signed up for a restorative workshop...
The spiral you already know It’s Sunday night. A blank notebook on your lap. Three classes to teach this week. You’ve been scrolling Instagram for sequence ideas for the last forty-five minutes, and somewhere in there, a voice starts up: Everyone else just walks in...
Most new yoga teachers think confidence comes from more training. Twenty years in, I can tell you—it doesn’t. I’ve trained hundreds of teachers in my programs at Carolina Yoga Company and Comfort Zone Yoga, and I’ve watched the same confidence crisis...
What elite athletes know about recovery that changes everything I’ve spent over twenty years working with athletes at every level, from recreational runners to Olympic competitors, and there’s one thing that separates the elite from everyone else. It’s not talent....
