I became a therapist by accident, albeit a pretty intentional accident by all appearances. Those who know me well would probably sit back and say, “of course you are a yoga therapist now, that was inevitable.” I did, after all, only step into my first class all those years ago …
Despite most marketing efforts to simplify this sophisticated tradition in order to pique our Western interest, the yoga pool is actually much deeper than it may appear on the surface. Here are some of the things I wish I knew when I stepped into my first yoga class, which was …
Once you convince yourself to be bold enough to try out yoga, sticking with it can be challenging when it seems hard to keep up, or when progress seems elusive. A group class can be overwhelming: Does everyone else actually know what this teacher is saying? Am I the only …
Anybody else hear “non-essential” used to describe their livelihood and instantly feel a little devalued? Yeah, I had my moment of “wait, what did you just call me?!” too. Those seem like some prime fightin’ words right there, but instead I decided to go with “okay, I’ll do what I …
I am not a fan of the recent mad rush of studios and independent teachers alike all flooding my inbox and social media feeds with their NEW online classes via Zoom (or Easy Webinar, or Facebook Live, or…). And as a teacher who happens to have several weekly classes at …
Throughout the past year, I have had the opportunity to watch, evaluate and mentor a number of novice yoga teachers and teachers-in-training. The general consensus has been: whether one enrolls in a yoga teacher training program with ambitions to actually become a teacher, or simply to develop their personal practice …
Don’t we all step onto the mat at least once, if not often, with visions of ourselves mirroring the beautifully symmetrical, graceful, perhaps even acrobatic, feats of flexibility we see in photographs? In fact, many of us were lured to yoga in the first place with grand promises, or at …
I confess that I once assumed getting to any yoga class was better than not going to yoga at all. I also reasoned there was benefit in attending classes with a handful of different teachers every week – because who doesn’t love variety? And while there is some truth to …
With more than 1,100 teachers in just the South Puget Sound area alone registered with Yoga Alliance (and no doubt many more teaching who are not in the YA directory), where does one begin to figure out which teacher to choose? Not all yoga teachers are created equal. Connecting with the …
