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Essential Guide to Arm Balances
Three Meditation Studies That Inspire Me to Practice
In just a few weeks, I'll be launching my 3-week meditation and self care course, Start Your Year With Self Care on Monday, January 13, 2020. In the meantime, here's a little meditation info to feed your mind: Even after all these years, I still need need reminders...
What Self Care Means to Me — and Why It Matters
Self care is a buzz word these days. And there’s a reason for it – in times of cultural and political strife, people’s interest in self care increases. Buzz words tend to make me cringe, or at the very least, they make me suspicious. But last year, as I was prepping...
Yoga Pose Notebook: Astavakrasana
Long before photos of Handstand ruled the social media kingdom, Astavakrasana was king of the hill. Teachers would get one or two photos of themselves every few years to adorn their bios and show aptitude in their flyers. There were 3 distinctly different looks that...
Sequencing Solutions: Strengthen your Hamstrings
QUESTIONVinyasa yoga sequences contain much more hamstring stretching than strengthening. How can I modify my sequences to include more hamstring...
Backbends: When and Why to Engage your Glutes
QUESTION Some teachers tell students not to “squeeze” or “grip” their gluteal muscles (or glutes) in backbends because this will compress the sacrum...
A Balanced Yoga Sequence to Lotus Pose
QUESTIONI struggle with tight hips and I want to learn Lotus Posture (Padmasana). Can you suggest a yoga sequence that will help me open my hips and...
10 Key Values the Best Yoga Teachers Possess
I’m driven and ambitious when I train yoga teachers. I’m ridiculously passionate about yoga. And, I’m opinionated about the need for education to...
How to Teach Yoga Transitions
First, a shameless plug: Registration for my 2018 Teaching Trainings is live! If you want to move your practice and teaching forward, this training...
Essential Sequence: Winning in Warrior III
WHY THIS SEQUENCE WORKS I spent my first two years of yoga avoiding Warrior III. Then, I spent another year avoiding it. Finally, after avoiding it...
10 Creative Ways to Inspire Your Yoga Practice This Summer
When summer rolls around, yoga practice can fall by the wayside -- the longer days mean we spend more time outdoors, we travel, those of us who have...
Mastering the Art of the Well-Paced Class
Every day during my teacher trainings I give my students time to practice on their own—at their own pace. The practice period is only 15 to 20...
Essential Sequence: Learn to Love Camel Pose
WHY THIS CAMEL POSE SEQUENCE WORKS Students who love Ustrasana, Camel Pose, praise the pose for the way it opens the shoulders, chest and...
How to Survive the Worst Yoga Class You’ve Ever Taught
We’ve all had the same gut-wrenching, heart-breaking thought at some point while teaching a class, 'This is not only the worst class that I’ve...
5 Ways to Stay Healthy, Safe, and Grounded While You’re Teaching
As yoga teachers, we’re committed to the wellbeing of our students. After all, our bottom line is to help people reduce their suffering. We even...
My 5 Favorite Yoga Postures (And Why I Love Them)
Common wisdom tells you to work daily on the yoga poses that bring up resistance and challenge you. Personally, I’m okay with this sentiment—after...
In Praise of Moving More Slowly
Choosing to slow down is a radical decision. And, like most things, slowing down and paying attention takes practice. When it comes to yoga, I...
Revolved Triangle Sequence: Stretch Your Hamstrings, IT Band, Outer Hips, and Spinal Muscles
You know those poses that you once loathed, but now you love? At first, they had the audacity to make you feel awkward, imbalanced, and mortal....
In Praise of the Quiet Yoga Class
In 20 years of teaching yoga, I’ve never played music in my class. Not once. If you play music in your class -- or you prefer to go to classes with...