I was scrolling Instagram on a Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago, not looking for anything in particular. A teacher I follow had posted a reel: beautiful studio, gorgeous light, a sequence that looked effortless and inventive. The comments were glowing. Before I had...
It’s Sunday afternoon. You open three books, scroll your notes, pull up a couple of videos for inspiration, and an hour later you have seventeen tabs and no plan. The problem is almost never a shortage of ideas. Twenty years of teaching yoga teachers has convinced me...
Yes, $500 a session is real. The number is also the last thing to think about. Before the rate, the room: what athletes want from a session is the part most yoga teachers get backward. My free workshop walks through both, in that order: How to Double Your Income...
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...