Chrissy Carter

Demonstrate the meaning of balance by unpacking three key concepts with your students.

Yes, your home practice is for you, but it can also improve your teaching. Here's how.

When you're teaching multiple classes each week, writing sequences, creating curriculum, and managing your careers, your home yoga practice might slip through the cracks. Here's why you shouldn't let it.

Here's how to design a flow that explores the ideas of practice and non-attachment, culminating in Handstand.

Each posture in this mini-sequence targets a specific action while building toward the main pose, Virbhadrasana III.

These five poses help your students prepare for Tree Pose. Here's how to put them together.

Mapping out what you want to teach and how you're going to do it sets you—and your students—up for success.

Observing your students will make you a more effective teacher. These practices will help you reflect what you see so that you can offer clear and compassionate feedback.

Designing a yoga class is a skill every teacher should master. Here's how to build a sequence your students will love.

It can be tempting to lean into your ideas of who you think you are—or who you think you should be—as a yoga teacher. But there's a better way.

Cultivate compassion, embrace your imperfections, and find more ease of being by using props in this supportive sequence.

Yoga Journal cover model Chrissy Carter shares her insight on what it really means to teach yoga, and the importance of feeling gratitude—even in life's toughest moments.

It’s easy to get discouraged when you slide back into old patterns. Encourage patience for yourself and others with this balancing sequence.

Stay on course with this sequence to help you break habitual patterns and develop the strength and courage to face life's challenges.

Feel like you have a cold coming on? Nip it in the bud with these immunity-boosting tips.

Leading a yoga retreat can be a deeply rewarding experience. Organizing a yoga retreat, however, can be an overwhelming endeavor. Here, veteran retreat leader Chrissy Carter lays out 6 steps to nail it.

Even for confident cooks, Thanksgiving dinner can be the most anxiety-provoking meal of the year. Yoga can help.