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...
A student lingers by the door after class. She’s holding her mat in the universal “I have a question but I don’t want to be in your way” posture. She catches your eye and says, “I’ve been thinking about doing a private with you . . . do you think that would help?” And...
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...
Stop Trying to Sound Like Someone Else In my second-ever yoga class, I was covering for a teacher named Bryan. I spent the entire hour apologizing—”I know Bryan usually does it this way.” “I’m sorry, I’m not Bryan.” After class, two...
“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...
