Quick Poll: 500-Hour Intensive Option

Yoga teachers: after loving the summer intensive version of our Carolina Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training, we’re considering adding an intensive version of our advanced studies training (what the Yoga Alliance used to call the 500-hour level, and what is now...

Refine Your Sequencing

Much of my work in the last year has been taxonomical—categorizing and collating the sequences of poses I teach in class. There are various approaches to building a yoga pose sequence for class or home practice; mine is based on a chunking model. Each sequence...

Now Available: Classroom Management and Safety

We always have a lot of fun in the teacher trainings and intensives I lead. But I can’t remember having as much fun or belly laughs in a workshop as we had in Classroom Management and Safety. What is often a weighty, serious, and scary topic is less frightening...

Update: Track Your Habits

Just over a year ago, I wrote a post for my Active Yogi blog at Yoga Journal about awareness of our habits—what in yoga we call samskara. It begins: For the last few days, a robin has been attacking its reflection in the window to my home office. Over and over again,...

Read: Sustainable Yoga Teaching

In my latest post at prAna Life, I talk about ways to structure your teaching schedule so you have a sustainable yoga career, rather than burning out. “Practice becomes firmly grounded when well attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness.”...

Scheduled: Vinyasa and Vino

We have a fun offering in the works at Durham Yoga—a combo of flow yoga and a fun wine tasting in partnership with Cave Taureau Wines, owned in part by my husband. Anna Cordova will lead an hour-long flow practice (I hope to be there as an assistant, with hands-on...