Do You Need a Certification to Teach Core?

Do You Need a Certification to Teach Core?

Core work is already inside your scope. Here’s where the worry comes from, and what closes the gap. If you’re a yoga teacher, you very likely hold more qualification to teach core than you think, and you don’t need another certification to begin. Your 200-hour...
How Learning to Teach Core Makes You a More Useful Yoga Teacher

How Learning to Teach Core Makes You a More Useful Yoga Teacher

Sooner or later, a student stops you on the way out the door with three words: “More core, please.” And for a long time I answered that request badly. I tacked three rounds of bicycles into the middle of an otherwise unrelated class, everybody groaned on cue, and I...
New! Core Strength for Real People: Figure 4 and Curtsy

New! Core Strength for Real People: Figure 4 and Curtsy

There is a fresh video now available in my Core Strength for Real People series. This one: takes you through two crosses of the legs—wide and narrow builds strength and balance around your hips moves you from your back, through table pose, to standing Here’s a...
A New Approach to Balance Poses, Part 2

A New Approach to Balance Poses, Part 2

In my last post, I shared a video demo of how to get into some classic standing balance poses through shoulder and hip rotations. Here’s a follow-up that you could use to move into kneeling balance poses. Some of these shapes are pretty spicy! But you can...
New! Core Strength for Real People: Bare Minimum

New! Core Strength for Real People: Bare Minimum

There is a fresh video available today in my Core Strength for Real People series. This one delivers maximal satisfaction and time management when you tack it on at the end of a workout. I like to think of it as the bare minimum I can do and tell myself, “I...