Updated October 2026 Yoga Alliance announced in October 2026 that it’s reworking its credentials, starting in January 2027: the numbered titles collapse into two (RYT and E-RYT for teachers, and RYS for schools), and holding the credential will mean passing a free...
The question people type into a search bar is “should I become a yoga teacher?” The question they ask at 3:00 a.m. is different: who am I to teach this? I’ve been teaching yoga since 2003 and training yoga teachers since 2011, and nearly everyone I’ve trained walked...
If you have a browser tab open to an online 200-hour yoga teacher training and a second tab open to “is online yoga teacher training worth it,” I’d like to give you the answer I’d give a friend across the kitchen table: it depends on what happens inside the training,...
Twenty minutes of continuous talking, to a room full of people lying completely still with their eyes closed, every one of them depending on your voice to tell them what happens next: that prospect has scared off more experienced yoga teachers than any arm balance...
Every September, I make myself the same promise: this is the year I stay ahead of my class planning. I buy the good notebook. I block out Thursday afternoons. I picture every class outlined a week in advance, calm and unhurried. As of this writing, that notebook holds...
Your Instagram profile is open for business whether you have touched it or not. Somebody hears your name at a dinner party and looks you up. The studio where you teach tags you in a schedule graphic and four people tap through. A student stands in her sister’s...
