Sage Rountree

Most yoga teachers spend hundreds of dollars a year on continuing education, and most of it never makes them better teachers. After more than 20 years on both sides of the equation, first as a teacher investing in my own growth and then as a school owner offering CE to other teachers, I’ve watched what genuinely changes how someone teaches and what just adds letters after a n...

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 started rolling in. Some teachers said yes, finally, thank you. Others were—let’s call it spirited...

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 wondered that mid-class, you’re in good company. I wondered it for years before I trusted my own re...

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 teaching yoga and running teacher trainings, I’ve seen the same five mistakes show up again and again. In n...

There’s a particular kind of dread a lot of us know well. It’s Sunday night, tomorrow’s class still isn’t planned, and you’re staring at a blank page wondering what on earth you’re going to teach. One week you overthink every pose, every transition, every word . . . and the next week you walk in and wing it.

I call that the planning-confidence cycle, and I built a w...