setting the tone in your yoga classes. Creating an inclusive and welcoming yoga class culture.

Setting the Tone in Your Yoga Classes

Creating an Inclusive and Welcoming Yoga Class Culture

  Let’s talk about you set the tone in your classes as a teacher. Whether you are teaching in a gym, studio, community space, online, or running your own studio, it’s part of your role as a teacher to create a welcoming and inclusive class culture. &nb..read more
teaching your first yoga class cuing - strategies for preparing your cues

Teaching Your First Yoga Class - Cuing

Preparing Your Cues for Teaching Yoga

As a yoga teacher-in-training or new teacher, preparing your cues for your first classes can be overwhelming. But, there are some strategies that can help you to feel prepared, grounded, and empowered as a new teacher. Watch the video below, or scroll down for the transcript note..read more
yoga teaching tip when do I breathe

Yoga Teaching Tip – When do I breathe?

6 strategies for maintaining your own breath as a yoga teacher while you teach a student-focused yoga class.

Watch the video, or scroll down for transcript notes. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3JAckycn4[/embedyt]

Yoga Teaching Tip - When Do I Breathe?

Teaching yoga is a funny job because yo..read more
celebrating 20 years of yoga teacher training

Celebrating 20 Years of Yoga Teacher Training!

It feels incredible to say this, but today I am celebrating 20 years of teaching yoga teacher training! I look back and can’t believe I had the audacity to even start this journey. Teacher training is so much more than I though it would be – more challenging, more transformative, and more fulfillin..read more
Yoga Ethics and Community Action How Can Our Yoga Community Contribute to A Better World?

Yoga Ethics and Community Action

How Can Our Yoga Community Contribute to A Better World?

Let's talk about how community action can fit into our yoga practice, teaching, and yoga spaces. Watch the video below, or scroll down for the transcript notes. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aKZY1r__o8[/embedyt]

How can our yoga community contrib..read more

yoga amidst the messiness of life

Yoga Amidst the Messiness of Life

Thoughts on yoga life, teaching yoga, and yoga class management

We were talking in a group coaching session the other day about the challenges of teaching in-home  sessions where kids and pets are interrupting, phones are ringing, and there is in an air of general household chaos while we are trying to guide a yoga practice..read more
Mapping Your Dream Yoga Teaching Practice

Mapping Your Dream Yoga Teaching Practice

As yoga teachers in training, it can be easy to focus only on getting through our studies and assessments or teaching our next class. But it’s also useful to pause and zoom out. What might your teaching practice look like in the real world - not just in theory, but in a way that fits your life, your values, and your capacity..read more
gentle yoga new online course

New Gentle Yoga Online Course

50-Hour Gentle Yoga Training Course

After years of faster-paced, higher-intensity yoga dominating the modern postural yoga landscape, there is a growing trend towards gentler, more accessible forms of practice. Gentle Yoga has emerged in response to busy lives, changing bodies, chronic pain, aging, and a deep..read more
Your year of yoga guided journaling practice

Your Year of Yoga - Guided Journaling Practice

As we enter this new year, I want to invite you into a pause. Not a rush to plan or fix or improve anything - but a pause to reflect on your year of yoga. What you’ve practiced. What you’ve learned. What challenged you. And what quietly changed along the way. This is a guided journal..read more
yoga for a reason season or a lifetime

Yoga for a Reason, Season, or Lifetime

There’s a saying that some people - or things - come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. I think this applies beautifully to yoga, too. In this discussion we reflect on yoga styles and trends past, present, and emerging and to connect trends back to the fundamentals and timeless..read more
from yoga teacher to yoga student

From Yoga Student to Yoga Teacher: The Fundamental Shifts

When you begin your yoga teacher training journey, one of the most important things you learn is that not everyone is like you. Today we’re talking about one of the most important transformations you’ll experience in your yoga teacher training — the shift from yoga student to yoga teac..read more
green flags for yoga teachers

Green Flags for Yoga Teachers

  We often hear about red flags - signs of negative or unsafe behavior, things that make us feel uneasy or disconnected. But today, let’s shift our focus to green flags.   Green flags are signs of positive qualities, constructive behaviors, and healthy relationship skills. In yoga class, they’re the subtle signals t..read more