The spiral you already know It’s Sunday night. A blank notebook on your lap. Three classes to teach this week. You’ve been scrolling Instagram for sequence ideas for the last forty-five minutes, and somewhere in there, a voice starts up: Everyone else just walks in...
I just spent two hours in my favorite kind of conversation: a crossover. Sara Joelle came on Yoga Teacher Confidential to talk about storytelling for yoga teachers. Then I went on her show, Point of the Story, to talk about something that started with my husband...
The craft nobody taught you in your 200-hour For over a decade, I taught private yoga to Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams. Somewhere along the way, I realized I’d been teaching privates wrong. Not because I didn’t know yoga. Because nobody had ever sat me...
The longer you teach yoga, the easier it is to forget what it feels like to be a student. You stop taking other people’s classes—you’re too busy teaching your own. You dismiss workshops because you “already know that.” You forget what it’s like to be confused by a...
“Get out of your comfort zone.” It’s everywhere—bumper stickers, Instagram captions, motivational posters. The message is clear: your comfort zone is a problem to be solved. But here’s a definition I keep coming back to: the place where you can...
