My husband took his first yin yoga class with me during a workshop I was teaching for athletes. Afterward, he told me I had the name wrong—it shouldn’t be called yin yoga, he said, it should be called win yoga, because the whole time he was in it, he kept wondering...
The craft is five learnable skills, and none of them depend on your volume Some of the best yin teachers I know are loud, fast-talking vinyasa teachers. A soothing voice was never the qualification—the skill set is. I hear this one over and over from yoga teachers:...
The post that broke my comment section A few weeks ago, I posted a simple carousel on Instagram. The cover slide: not every pose needs you to call out the Sanskrit name. Eight slides. A few examples. I clicked publish and went on with my Wednesday. Then the comments...
You dim the lights, prop everyone up, lower your voice to its softest register, and say, “Now just relax.” Then you look around the room and a small voice starts in: is this actually working? Are they settling, or just lying there waiting for it to end? If you’ve ever...
Most yoga sequencing mistakes aren’t about bad taste or a shortage of creativity. They’re structural gaps—the kind nobody handed you a checklist for when you finished your teacher training and walked into your first class alone. After more than twenty years of...
