Why most yoga teachers leave their 200-hour with a gap they can’t name Most working yoga teachers I meet finished their 200-hour training, walked into their first class, and felt the gap immediately. You’re not imagining it. There are five skills your 200-hour was...
The students in your next class will arrive in a hundred different bodies, with a hundred different histories. Somebody has been balancing in tree pose for fifteen years. Somebody is coming back from a knee surgery. Somebody just grew twelve inches in a year and is...
A few years ago, I was at the doctor’s office for an X-ray on a “sprained” ankle that wouldn’t heal. I’m an ultrarunner, which means I roll my ankles on trails for sport. The doctor—not knowing I’d been teaching yoga for over twenty years—kindly suggested I try...
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...
If you’ve ever spent your Sunday night building a completely new yoga sequence from scratch, only to wonder midway through Monday’s class whether your students even noticed the difference—this post is for you. I spent over a decade coaching endurance athletes....
