My co-author Alexandra DeSiato and I just released our new book, Yoga Off the Mat, and to mark the occasion we sat down for a live conversation about it inside our community. If you have ever walked out of a yoga class thinking there’s something more going on here...
The class you’re most likely to be asked to teach—and least likely to have been taught Sooner or later, a studio asks you to sub yin yoga, or to add a yin class to your schedule; or a student asks what yin actually is, and you realize your training skipped it. Most...
Updated October 2026 The best online yoga teacher training is the one that fits what you want from it and can show you, before you pay, that it will teach you to teach: live time with a lead trainer who still teaches real students, practice teaching with specific...
You dim the lights, prop everyone up, lower your voice to its softest register, and say, “Now just relax.” Then you look around the room and a small voice starts in: is this actually working? Are they settling, or just lying there waiting for it to end? If you’ve ever...
Your 200-hour training probably gave restorative yoga an afternoon—maybe an hour. Someone propped you up in a supported shape, dimmed the lights, and the curriculum moved on. Now your students keep asking for slower classes, the Thursday-evening restorative slot needs...
The first time I felt true rest, I wasn’t trying to. I was deep in Ironman training, carrying the kind of fatigue that made me look forward to dentist appointments—because they meant I got to lie down for forty-five minutes. I signed up for a restorative workshop...
