Well, it’s happened. The New York state government wants to bring yoga into the fold of regulated industries. Teacher training programs are now considered “vocational training” and the state wants to require its own applications and fees. This would be in addition to the Yoga Alliance applications and fees. Leslie Kaminoff warned us (in his [...]

If anyone is looking to pick up another teaching gig, there’s an audition at Equinox this Tuesday. They hold auditions every six months or so; each candidate has a few minutes to lead the other candidates through a few poses. So it’s an interesting exercise in preparation versus adaptation: do you adjust your plan based [...]

I’ve been meaning to share this New Yorker article for a while. It’s Malcolm Gladwell’s study of the near-impossibility of predicting successful NFL quarterbacks, or school teachers. In both these jobs, the professional environment is so intensely unique that “almost nothing you can learn about candidates before they start predicts how they’ll do once they’re [...]

If you’ve had low back pain, you know how incapacitating it can be. One wrong step, and some mysterious stranger stabs a knife between your vertebrae. If you haven’t, and you’re practicing yoga, please read this article from My Yoga Online: The Threats of Twisting The one thing I would add is an insight from [...]

Last week, near the end of Leslie’s Yoga Anatomy class, Amy Matthews dropped by to check in. We were right in the middle of a Q&A about a super-sensitive client, and how to work with someone who is very anxious and/or out-of-touch with their body. Amy and Leslie ended up having a really interesting discussion [...]