I spent the first few years of my teaching career doing it wrong. Not wrong in a dramatic way. My students weren’t getting injured. They kept coming back. But I was burning myself out planning elaborate new sequences for every single class, convinced...
The Real Secret to Fresh Classes: Repetition with Subtle Variation Most yoga teachers think the hack to keeping class fresh is coming up with something new every week. Sunday night rolls around and you’re scrolling Instagram for inspiration, second-guessing your...
Although I have two gorgeous, brilliant adult daughters, I am not a grandmother proper (yet!). But I have metaphorical grandchildren all around the world: they are the students of my students, both those who’ve done teacher training with me and those...
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...
