Most yoga teachers never plan their year at all, and the ones who do tend to overplan, burn out within a season, and abandon the whole project by Thanksgiving. There is a middle path, and it takes less than an hour to set up: three intentions—one for your structure,...
The question every newly certified teacher gets asked—and how to answer it for yourself You barely made it out of your 200-hour training before the question started: are you going to get your 500? Sometimes it’s a friend from your cohort. Sometimes it’s a...
You finished your 200-hour training. You have a certificate, a binder full of notes, and a question nobody quite prepared you for: now what? I’ve been training yoga teachers since 2011, and that question is the one I hear most. Not “how do I cue a...
The credential everyone talks about and almost nobody explains If you’re about to spend a few thousand dollars on a yoga teacher training, you’ve probably typed “Yoga Alliance certification” into a search bar more than once and come away more confused than when you...
The first time I stood in front of a college football team, I had been teaching yoga for years. I was a published author. I had credentials. And within the first five minutes, I knew that the cues I used every day in a studio class were landing like a foreign...
