Sage Rountree

The question people type into a search bar is “should I become a yoga teacher?” The question they ask at 3:00 a.m. is different: who am I to teach this? I’ve been teaching yoga since 2003 and training yoga teachers since 2011, and nearly everyone I’ve trained walked in carrying the second question. So let’s set both on the table, because the answer to the first one lives in f...

Twenty hours of training on balance sounds like a lot to spend on tree pose. It would be, if balance were a single pose. Balance is a lens on your entire teaching, and the syllabus for my Fundamentals of Teaching Balance course proves it: open it up, and the real question becomes how all of this fits into twenty hours.

Autumn is my favorite season, and not only because of football. The slightly embarrassing reason is that as the light gets lower, everything casts a longer shadow, and I find that weirdly reassuring. The shadows were there all summer. You just couldn’t see them at high noon.

That’s a useful way to think about the kleshas, the five obstacles that yoga philosophy says...

If you have a browser tab open to an online 200-hour yoga teacher training and a second tab open to “is online yoga teacher training worth it,” I’d like to give you the answer I’d give a friend across the kitchen table: it depends on what happens inside the training, and you can find that out before you pay.

I’ve been teaching yoga since 2003 and training yoga teach...

Most people who want to teach yoga put it off for years because they’ve decided they haven’t practiced long enough. I’ve been training yoga teachers since 2011, and I’ve come to believe the number of years on somebody’s mat doesn’t predict whether she’ll become a good yoga teache...