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,...
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...
It’s 6:00 on a Tuesday. Twelve people are settling onto their mats, the sequence in your head is one you trust, and you still don’t know what you’re going to say first. That gap—between a class that works and a class that feels like yours—is what a theme closes....
For years, I refused to build an Instagram account for Comfort Zone Yoga®. Not because I doubted the value of it. I could see exactly how it would go: I’d post the same thing on both accounts with a slightly different caption, feel behind on both, and eventually...
The four and a half minutes nobody trained you for You said yes to the yin class. Maybe it was a sub request, maybe it was a seasonal add on a quiet Sunday evening, and maybe you said yes because it looked like the easiest hour on the schedule: five to ten shapes,...
