Your older students need a smarter class, not a gentler one—and a yoga teacher who believes they can improve For your students over fifty, balance work is not a party trick. It’s the difference between catching themselves on an icy sidewalk and a trip to the emergency...
Every wobble is your balance systems having a conversation—not a mistake to apologize for You’re allowed to wobble. So is every student who apologizes the second they step out of tree pose, tips out of dancer, or catches themselves mid-eagle with a sheepish laugh. In...
A progression method for the pose that never seems to change Your students have done tree pose hundreds of times, and they wobble exactly the way they did five years ago. That’s not a failure of practice: it’s a programming problem, and it has a fix. Here’s the...
A six-segment structure that plans like a recipe, not a pose list Most classes billed as “balance” are a regular flow with tree pose stapled onto the end. That’s not a balance class: it’s a flow with a garnish! A real balance class has an arc, the same way a good meal...
What’s actually happening in a shaky tree pose, and how to teach toward it on purpose A student wobbles in tree pose, catches herself, and apologizes before you’ve said a word. That apology is the tell: she thinks the wobble means she failed. It doesn’t. Balance isn’t...
