A hands-free plan B for the real bodies in your room In my first years of teaching, I thought a real flow class needed two things: hands on the floor, and a teacher who never stopped inventing. Twenty years in, I can tell you both beliefs are wrong, and the second one...
It’s Sunday afternoon. You have the whole evening to plan the week’s classes. You open three books. You scroll through your notes. You pull up a few videos for inspiration. An hour later, you have seventeen tabs open and no plan. The problem isn’t a shortage of ideas....
A student arrives with a wrist that won’t bear weight today. Or you’re teaching a beginners’ class. Or you’ve been demoing all week and your own hands need a rest. Whatever the reason, you want a complete class ready to go—one that moves through everything a balanced...
Many yoga teachers I speak to admit to spending two or three hours planning a single 60-minute class. After 20 years of teaching, I can tell you the bottleneck isn’t a shortage of creativity! Most of us were never handed a structural checklist for class planning, so...
Build a template, batch your month, and get your weekends back If it takes you three hours to plan a sixty-minute yoga class, this post is going to change your week, and quite possibly your teaching life. I have spent twenty-plus years teaching and training teachers,...
