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Ever Wondered What We Talk About in Yoga Teacher Training?

I’m in the midst of a yoga teacher training right now, and thought I’d share a few of the helpful teaching strategies and mantras we’ve talked about.  Scroll down for a few of the conversations we've had recently, including:
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Worrying about what other people think of you is a faucet you can turn off anytime.

This comes from a conversation I had with a teacher trainee this week in relation to two of the Yamas (guidelines for social conduct), Brahmacharya and Asteya (energy management, non-stealing). In discussing this, I noticed that I had a LOT of thoughts. Part of my strong response is..read more
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Breaking News!

We’ve upgraded to a 350-Hour Yoga Teacher Training.

Over the past two years, since the switch to a remote training, I’ve been adapting and evolving the Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher Training.  Recently I realized that with all the updates and adaptations that our curriculum hours had extended beyond the 300-hours of the original course. ..read more
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Still In Love With Yoga After All These Years

It’s just a few days until I share the first yoga teacher training program of 2022, and I’m so excited! Sometimes I wonder about my enthusiasm because this will be, I think, my 49th teacher training. One might think that after all this time my excitement might fade. The thing is, I’m still as excited today as I..read more
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Winter Solstice Greetings

Rest - Reflection - Gratitude Today is the winter solstice, a changing of the seasons, and here in the north this is the time that we move into a rest period. Traditionally this is a time for learning, storytelling, and reflection. The longer nights and colder temperatures guide us to spend a bit more time indoors, and I’ll be making ..read more
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4 Virtues for Mental Peace

One of the philosophies that we learn from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is the 4 virtues. The teaching is that we can find mental peace and serenity through these four practices:
Yoga Sutras 1:33
The mind becomes clear and serene when the qualities of the heart are cultivated: 1. Maitri: Friendliness toward the joyful 2. Karun..read more
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Q: How do we give students space between instructions? I'm finding this really hard, and feeling like I'm talking through the whole class. A: I am answering this as a chronic over-cuer, but I do hope to continue to improve my cueing skills to create more time and space for students to feel and inquire into their body/experience. The idea behind this prac..read more

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Yoga Teaching Skills

Developing Your Own Cuing Style

I had an email from a teacher trainee this week with a concern that comes up quite regularly and is, I think, worthy of some further discussion. The concern was about how often, particularly as teachers in training, we find ourselves using the cues we hear our teachers saying. This might feel like ‘co..read more
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I just have to get this off my chest. This is for any yoga teachers or teachers in training who are feeling like they aren’t good enough, or don’t know enough, or don’t have a ‘yoga body’ (whatever the heck that is), or aren’t spiritual enough, or won’t be as fluent with their cues, or can’t demonstrate the fancy asanas, or, in general, feel like an imposter...read more

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What Am I Studying Right Now?

Yoga and Chronic Low Back Pain.

I’ve done two great webinars this week exploring chronic low back pain and movement. While I’m still integrating much of what I’ve learned, I wanted to jot down a few quick notes to share with you some of what’s new in movement applications for low back pain and some of the updates to rese..read more