On Friday, November 18, I’ll lead a pop-up Yoga Nidra class at Carrboro Yoga. We start at 6 p.m. Yoga Nidra is a guided relaxation that leads you through the layers of your being with the goal of accessing bliss. If savasana is your favorite part of yoga class,...
If you have explored the softer side of yoga, you have probably encountered gentle, yin, and restorative yoga. But there’s often confusion around the differences between these three approaches, and not just for students, for teachers as well! While they can be...
Here’s a true confession from most yoga teachers: we always go faster on the second side. This happens for a variety of reasons, prime among them that we have said all our best cues on the first side and haven’t grown comfortable with silence, or that we have...
Mark your calendars now for two workshops Alexandra DeSiato and I will be co-leading at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts: Recharge: A Retreat for Yoga and Movement Teachers, Sunday–Friday, October 1–6Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses: Create...
One of our teachers at Carolina Yoga Company also teaches business classes at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. There, she told me, she tells her students that customer satisfaction follows this formula: Satisfaction = Perception −...
I wrote The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook to help teachers at every level—and to serve as a yoga teacher training manual. If you’re using the book as your YTT textbook, I’d love to offer a free Zoom Q&A with your cohort to talk about what...
