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It’s Sunday night. A blank notebook on your lap. Three classes to teach this week. You’ve been scrolling Instagram for sequence ideas for the last forty-five minutes, and somewhere in there, a voice starts up: Everyone else just walks in and teaches. What’s wrong with me? I’ve been doing this for years and I still can’t plan a class without ...
Most new yoga teachers think confidence comes from more training. Twenty years in, I can tell you—it doesn’t.
I’ve trained hundreds of teachers in my programs at Carolina Yoga Company and Comfort Zone Yoga, and I’ve watched the same confidence crisis show up again and again: in brand-new teachers, in experienced teachers returning after a break, and in teachers who’...
“I’m only RYT-200. Do I need my 500-hour certification before I can teach athletes?”
I hear this every single week. It’s the most common question I get from yoga teachers who want to work with athletic populations—and the answer is going to save you years of unnecessary waiting.
No. You do not need R...
A note up top: this post is for yoga teachers wondering what to charge for privates, not for students wondering what to expect to pay. If you teach, keep reading.
Someone texts asking about a private. You read the message twice. You start typing a number . . . then delete it. You type a smaller number. You delete that one too. You sit with your phone for fo...
A few years ago, I was at the doctor’s office for an X-ray on a “sprained” ankle that wouldn’t heal. I’m an ultrarunner, which means I roll my ankles on trails for sport. The doctor—not knowing I’d been teaching yoga for over twenty years—kindly suggested I try standing on one leg.
Easy. Close my eyes? Easy. Turn my head side to side? Still easy.
And I sto...