Pose photos are inescapable in yoga world. Scroll through a hashtag or two, click on a Pinterest board, or open up a yoga magazine and you’re sure to be bombarded with images of seemingly-impossible shapes. And more than likely, the people doing them will be young, slender, white women. These images dictate not only how yoga is …

Today I’m back with another dive into the “Alignment Cues Decoded” blog series I wrote for Yoga Journal around 2014/2015. Back then, I was early in my evolution as a yoga teacher—I could tell that students were struggling in cue-focused classes, but I still saw the inability to get into a particular pose as a …

How has your understanding of yoga changed in the last five years? I’ve been digging back into a series of “‘Alignment Cues Decoded” blog series I wrote for Yoga Journal around 2014, and boy is there a lot to unpack. Back then, I knew that yoga pose alignment cues were poorly taught and didn’t help …

Back in 2014, when my Instagram was all photos of contortions with the Nashville filter (remember that?) and none of us had heard of Zoom, I wrote a series of blog posts called “‘Alignment Cues Decoded” for Yoga Journal. I was starting to see that most teacher training focuses more on memorizing sets of instructions …