For the eighth consecutive year, I had a wonderful time leading a weekend on yoga for athletes, as well as spending five days investigating teaching yoga to athletes with my colleagues. (If you'd like to do the intensive, it's always available online and next offered...
In January, I'll be returning to one of my favorite places: the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts. I've been traveling to teach there since 2009 (read pre- and postviews from my previous visits here, including detailed notes on what we've...
Yes, I was in Seattle,however briefly!I am happy to be done with my whirlwind travel week, which began with a trip to Seattle on Wednesday–and a trip back on Thursday! In between, I loved meeting the affable, laid-back, but sharp leadership of REI and of prAna, and...
The three biggest mistakes yoga teachers make teaching yin—and what the physiology, cueing, and sequencing actually require instead.
Most teachers avoid yin because they don’t know what to say during a long hold. Here’s the word budget, the script skeleton, and permission to stop talking.
You can’t talk a body into rest. You can only set it up for rest. Here’s how to teach a restorative class that genuinely relaxes your students—from the room to the props to the silence.
Balance is a teaching skill before it’s a pose. Here’s how to scale tree, eagle, and dancer for the whole curve of your class without singling anyone out, using the sweeter-to-spicier spectrum and the 6–4–2 framework.
a complete 200-hour yoga teacher training curriculum—ready for your studio You have the studio, the students, and the teaching chops. What you need is a curriculum built by someone who literally wrote the textbooks—with dual accreditation support, content in three...
Yoga Alliance doesn’t require a separate certification to teach yoga nidra. Here’s what you actually need—and what makes the real difference in your teaching.
Yoga nidra has a branding problem—and it’s keeping practical teachers on the sidelines. Here’s why your grounded teaching style is actually your greatest asset, not a disqualifier.
