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Four Unconventional Backbend Preparations to Add to Your Practice and Teaching
Why should you read my advice on backbend preparations? Simple: because my backbends are average at best. This means that, A) my backbends are probably similar to yours, and, B) since backbends don’t come easily for my body, I’ve been struggling to figure out...
Move Before You Meditate: A Yoga Sequence to Prepare for Meditation
I typically meditate first thing in the morning and a short yoga sequence helps me shake off sleepiness before I settle in to meditation. This is just one sequence that I love to do before meditating and it only takes a few minutes. This one hits all of the spots to...
My Favorite Yoga & Meditation Gift Books
When I think back over the past few years of creating content for Yogaland podcast, I feel so fortunate that I've been introduced to some truly amazing authors. Below you'll find five of my favorite yoga and meditation-related books that would make great gifts for...
Verbal Cues for Yoga Poses: The Most Common Instructional Errors We Make When Teaching Yoga
The ability to give clear, concise, and compelling verbal cues for yoga poses is one of the most distinguishing factors of a good yoga teacher. For...
Yoga Pose Notebook: Parivrtta Janu Sirsasana (Revolved Head-to-Knee Pose)
{illustrations by MCKIBILLO} One Thing to Learn About Parivrtta Janu Sirsasana You don’t have to press the sitting bone that you’re leaning away...
Check Your Head: Four Ways to Get Ready to Teach a Yoga Class
If you’re not a yoga teacher, you probably don’t understand the utter ridiculousness of our daily commute or schedule inefficiencies. Yes, we’re...
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...