Tips for Teachers

I’ve only injured myself once in 38 years of yoga practice. It happened when a teaching colleague told me my Headstand (Sirsasana) was incorrect because I...

Yoga gossip. No matter how big our small our yoga community is, it seems there’s always some sort of buzz. We are competitive beings, after all....

Occasionally I’m invited to team teach a class that will benefit a local charity. I always accept these invitations, as I feel that this is a...

Six months ago, who would have thought we’d find ourselves quarantined? The times are challenging us all, one way or another. My yoga studio, Mindful Yoga...

How do you keep everyone safe and happy in a mixed-level yoga class? There’s no easy answer. In a recent teacher training, I asked trainees to...

Years ago, one of my former students took a yoga class at a local health club. My student had been practicing for several years and was...

When most people think of yoga, they think of physical poses. While they may understand that there’s more to it than just poses, do most people...

Decades ago, a student came to my class wanting to learn how to practice Padmasana (Lotus Pose). At the time, I had long since ditched my...

I lived on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1990. During that year Aadil Palkhivala frequented the Big Island to teach workshops. I was fortunate to...

  You’d think it would be easy. Yoga props, such as yoga blocks and straps, increase the ease in so many poses. Yet, in this competitive...

About 25 years ago I attended a workshop with a well-known yoga teacher. We were working up to Urdva Dhanurasana (Upward Bow), stretching our quads and...

I didn’t want to do it. I’ve always enjoyed Pigeon Pose, or at least the hip-opening variation that’s a preparation for Eka Pada Rajakapotasana (One-Legged King...

I started teaching in 1990. I didn’t know much about reading the energy of the room or listening to intuition. In my first position, I worked...

I remember the first time I was able to hold myself up in Chaturanga Dandasana. After spending a year struggling with lifting my body off the...

Friends who knew me in grade school and high school would probably never have pegged me as a person who’d end up teaching yoga. I was...

In the past two weeks the pile of unopened mail in my kitchen has grown taller and more unruly. Every so often I try to neaten...

This morning a student asked me what should have been a simple question: What should I be feeling in this position? A minute or so later,...

How Teaching Yoga Uncovers Your True Self As a lifelong teacher, whether it be science, health or yoga, I love and appreciate the trust that people...