Sooner or later, a student stops you on the way out the door with three words: “More core, please.” And for a long time I answered that request badly. I tacked three rounds of bicycles into the middle of an otherwise unrelated class, everybody groaned on cue, and I...
You cue tree pose, and three students beeline for child’s pose before you finish the sentence. That’s not laziness, nor is it a lack of effort. It’s a nervous system doing exactly what it evolved to do: protect a body from falling. For a student with a fall history,...
Your older students need a smarter class, not a gentler one—and a yoga teacher who believes they can improve For your students over fifty, balance work is not a party trick. It’s the difference between catching themselves on an icy sidewalk and a trip to the emergency...
One checklist, six starting positions, and a warmup you can teach for years In 2013 I filmed a two-minute warmup from my belly on a studio floor, and it has been finding yoga teachers ever since: the six moves of the spine, prone. It’s the warmup I reach for first,...
The four and a half minutes nobody trained you for You said yes to the yin class. Maybe it was a sub request, maybe it was a seasonal add on a quiet Sunday evening, and maybe you said yes because it looked like the easiest hour on the schedule: five to ten shapes,...
