Insights for yoga teachers who want to teach with depth, integrity, and real knowledge — not scripts. Includes guidance on working with students with pain and physical limitations.
I have been teaching yoga for 15 years and certifying teachers for 9. In that time I have watched a quiet crisis develop in yoga classrooms across the country, one that is directly connected to the pain many students are bringing to their practice and taking home with them. The crisis is not a lack of passionate teachers. There are plenty of those. It is a lack of biomechanical knowledge and an increasingly popular idea that alignment does not really matter. That every body i