Teachers, Your Class Is Not Your Practice

Teachers, Your Class Is Not Your Practice

Your yoga class is not your asana practice time. Don’t overdemonstrate. Hold the demo just long enough to make your point. This can be really tough for new teachers. Remember, you’re leading yoga, not doing your own practice. While some forms of group...
Meet Steve Shelton of Brummel Academy

Meet Steve Shelton of Brummel Academy

Meet Steve Shelton of Chicagoland’s Brummel Academy, the most recently certified graduate of Teaching Yoga to Athletes. A former high school and college football player, Steve has the bona fides to be a major force in the field of yoga for athletes. I loved...
Early Bird through June 1: 200-Hour Summer Intensive YTT

Early Bird through June 1: 200-Hour Summer Intensive YTT

If your relationship to your yoga practice has shifted over the last few years, it may be time for you to embark on yoga teacher training! At Carolina Yoga Company, we offer three formats of our 200-hour YTT, held at Carrboro Yoga. All of them are coming up in the...
Scheduled: Continuing Education at Carrboro Yoga

Scheduled: Continuing Education at Carrboro Yoga

I’ve just scheduled six workshops as part of Carolina Yoga Company’s 500-hour yoga teacher training. These are all open to any movement teacher, as well! They will meet at our Carrboro Yoga Co. location in Carrboro/Chapel Hill, NC. Each has some work for...
Update or Create Your Yoga Résumé

Update or Create Your Yoga Résumé

Do you have a yoga résumé? If so, have you brushed it up lately? If not, you’ll find a template to download and use at my free yoga teachers’ community, Comfort Zone Yoga. All the prompts are right in that document, so you can pop in your personal details...
Coming Up: Language Refinement Workshop in Carrboro

Coming Up: Language Refinement Workshop in Carrboro

I bet you’re teaching yoga (or interested in what goes into it) because you want to share its benefits with your students. And I’ll also bet that you want to do that in the best way you can. Finally, I bet consciously improving your communication skills,...