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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …