I was about three years into my personal yoga practice when my teacher asked me to demonstrate a pose for the class. Afterwards, she pulled me aside and said, “You have a gift for this. Have you ever thought about teaching?” My immediate response was,...
I used to think that teaching yin yoga and restorative yoga were specialty skills—nice to have if you wanted to teach those specific classes, but not essential to your development as a yoga teacher. After more than 20 years of teaching and training teachers,...
Most yoga teachers seem to think they need to fill every moment of class with instructions. That’s completely wrong, and it’s exhausting to try. In 20 years of teaching from professional athletes to complete beginners, from corporate boardrooms to college...
When most of us first fall in love with yoga, it’s because of what happens on the mat. We discover an inward journey that grounds us, strengthens us, or offers us a way through life’s transitions. Naturally, when we decide to teach, we assume it’s more of the same: we...
The Unspoken Fear of Every Yoga Teacher Every yoga teacher eventually faces it: that quiet, nagging worry about what would happen if something went wrong while you’re teaching. We usually think of students as the ones most likely to need urgent attention, but the...
The S.E.R.V.E. Method is a five-step framework for yoga class planning created by Sage Rountree, PhD—yoga teacher, exercise physiologist, and author of 13 books including The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook, The Art of Yoga Sequencing, and The...
