People are coming to yoga class to get to a better place somehow, and they’ve chosen your class because they think you might help do that. They want you to succeed.
Category: Teaching Yoga
The Colossal Failure of Modern Yoga
Most contemporary yoga teachers cannot answer one simple question that any teacher should be able to answer without hesitation. And that question is: What do you teach? Written by AYS Founder James Brown I. Every time I look at the screen to write this I feel nauseous. I taught successfully within the yoga studio system for…
Scary Yoga Teachers: A Halloween Rant
Yoga at Home: Building a Self-Practice
Yesterday, a new Yoga Journal book, Yoga at Home: Inspiration for Creating Yoga Home Practice, was published. Authored by Linda Sparrowe, who has also written The Woman’s Book of Yoga and Health: A Lifelong Guide to Wellness and the Yoga Journal book: Yoga, it’s described as “The definitive guide to creating your own home yoga…
4 Things Yoga Teachers Should Stop Saying
The foundation that I have built my yoga teacher training curriculum on is the belief that the most effective yoga teachers wholeheartedly work toward basing all of their instructions on a clear understanding of the philosophy that underlies asana practice. In a nutshell, we use the body as a tool to concentrate the mind so…
Beware the Guru
Note: This article was written in February 2013, shortly after the Vatican’s announcement that Pope Benedict would be stepping down. A highly edited version of it was published on The Huffington Post in May of last year. We are re-posting it now, as a UN panel investigating torture questions a vatican envoy on the…
Yoga Alliance Is Ruining Yoga
When I started practicing yoga, I never imagined that it would become as popular as it is now. I also never imagined that the majority of yoga classes happening these days would be a string of risky tricks taught by minimally educated teachers, all done to a rocking sound track. And, while there’s a lot…
Begin a Yoga Practice: 6 Tips for Success
Staff Pose | Dandasana You have decided that it’s time to begin a yoga practice! Congratulations on your wise choice! You are not only brilliant, you are also wildly efficient. A good yoga practice can make all those other improvements to your life just kind of happen without much further effort. Some people like to…