The Teaching Path

The Next Chapter

It's been nearly three months since I declared myself mostly self-employed. Since then, I have spent quite a bit of time asking myself...

Why I'm Dropping My Drop-in Classes

A few years ago, I made a spreadsheet that changed my life. The spreadsheet was my “financial overview,” outlining the various ways I...

Making a Living as a Yoga Teacher: Setting Your Prices

Last week, I led my first workshop on the finances of being a yoga teacher. I was so fired up to lead this workshop, and as soon as the...

Dear Yoga Teachers: Let's Talk About Money

When I took my first yoga teacher training, we did not talk about money. When I took my second, and then my third, and my fourth, and...

On Stoicism

The interesting irony is that, as I have become more introverted, I have started to put more effort into friendships and connection

Teaching What We Need, Because We Have To

“Can we all agree that we are yoga teachers because we’re all a little crazy? That we, in a sense, have to teach?” We all laughed, too hard.

Paperclips & Hands-on Assists

I’ll admit it: I love hands-on assists. But I also know that not everyone does. Touch can be profoundly healing; it can also be traumatizing

On Quitting Teaching, To Pursue Teaching

This past June, one of my 10th grade English students gave her final presentation on the similarities between Siddhartha’s journey in...