Teaching Yoga

You just finished your YTT. Here's how to stand out from the crowd to build—and keep—a strong student following.

The learning doesn't end with YTT. These tips help you get past your newness and nervousness.

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

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.

This sequence combines detailed alignment and intelligent sequencing with vinyasa theory.

Jivana Heyman, author of Accessible Yoga, explains how it's important to adapt a pose to the person instead of the other way around.

These takeaways from working with the most hard-working and exhausted of students may help you as well.

Need yoga lesson planning inspiration? Use these tips to stay inspired when creating new sequences for your yoga classes, so you and your students will never get bored.

With a new “yogalebrity” popping up on social media daily, we asked, what we can learn about yoga poses and philosophy from our feeds?

Matthew Sanford teaches with a focus on subtle inner sensations, rather than physical actions. Reverse-engineer your hands-on adjustments.

Erica Rodefer Winters reminds her yoga students to be gentle with themselves—a lesson she had to learn as well.

Yoga teacher-training programs are bursting at the seams with students looking to delve more deeply into their practices, supplement their income, or change careers entirely. New statistics from Yoga Alliance provides at glimpse of the landscape for these trainees.

Proficiency in differing approaches to yoga can deepen your understanding.

Skillfully incorporating anatomical language into your classes can increase your students' awareness of their bodies and their asanas.

If you teach yoga regularly, you will have a pregnant student in your class at some point. Learn what to do to encourage a healthy first trimester.

Meditation encourages students to apply the strength and balance generated during asana practice to learn how to manage their minds.