As COVID-19 drags into what feels like month 437, it’s clear that traditional, in-person yoga classes will be off the table for some time yet. And based on the Instagram DMs and emails I receive, that’s an unnerving thought for a lot of yoga teachers. Many of you have—understandably—found it difficult to transition to online …

As I was preparing to teach a workshop on refining your online teaching skills, I was thinking a lot about what I’d learned from almost a decade of teaching yoga students without ever setting foot in their studio. Many fellow teachers have told me that they have a hard time teaching online because they rely on …

Back in 2016, I was in the midst of my third and final round with back pain that my asana practice was contributing to. I had started to understand that sometimes adjustments to the poses were necessary–but I still believed that a focus on strengthening, on alignment, on a highly focused and intellectualized approach to …

In the last few years, the yoga injuries conversation has gained traction among students and teachers—but it’s often derailed into spiritual bypassing and victim-blaming. We’re told that injury is the result of ego, of trying to be too flashy or rushing into poses that we aren’t ready for. This argument claims that since no one is …