Yoga Teacher Confidential: Secrets of Becoming a Great Yoga Teacher

Sage Rountree
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Yoga Teacher Confidential is your backstage pass to the unspoken truths of being a yoga teacher. Sage Rountree, PhD, E-RYT500, dives into the real challenges and rewards of teaching yoga, offering expert advice and secrets to help you build confidence, connect with your students, and teach with authenticity. Sage draws on her two decades of experience teaching yoga, owning and running a studio, mentoring yoga teachers, and directing yoga teacher trainings to share practical insights you can use right away. You’ll also hear advice from her books, including Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, The Art of Yoga Sequencing, and The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook—plus her newest, Yoga Off the Mat, available now. Whether you’re navigating imposter syndrome, mastering classroom presence, or refining your skills to teach specialized niches like athletes, this podcast empowers you to lead your classes with clarity, grace, and ease.

  1. 1d ago ·  Video

    110. How to Become Your Students’ Favorite Yoga Teacher (Favorite Teacher, Part 1)

    You are never going to be everyone’s favorite yoga teacher, and I put the word almost into this series title on purpose. The chase for universal approval is precisely what keeps good teachers from becoming anyone’s favorite at all: the harder you contort yourself to please every person on every mat, the more generic your teaching becomes, and generic teaching is nobody’s favorite teaching. This episode opens a four-part series on the four audiences that shape a yoga teacher’s career, starting with the people who matter most, your students. When teachers imagine the beloved teacher, we picture credentials and charisma: the advanced practice, the poetic theme, the effortless demo. Ask students why they adore a particular teacher and you hear an entirely different vocabulary. She remembers my name. He noticed my shoulder before I said anything. I always know what I’m getting. Students aren’t grading your performance. They’re answering one question, how do I feel in this teacher’s room, which is why performing for them is the surest way to lose them. I learned that in my second public class, subbing for a beloved teacher named Bryan and apologizing my way through the whole class for not being him, until two women told me afterward, “Honey, we could see you weren’t Bryan.” From there I walk through the five behaviors students reward with devotion: learn names and one personal thing, teach the room rather than the plan, keep a reliable container, make every option honorable, and reflect their progress back to them. None of them requires another certification. I also explain the word almost: some students want something you don’t offer, and releasing them with warmth to the teacher down the hall protects the distinctive teaching that makes you the favorite of the students who are yours. You’ll leave with three moves for the week (the name experiment, one question for one regular, and the recording you don’t want to watch) plus a permission slip to trade performance for presence. If you want to work on this in the company of yoga teachers doing the same, come join the Zone, my free community of more than 3,500 yoga teachers. And if you know someone who’s been dreaming about becoming a yoga teacher, the free Comfort Zone Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training open house is right there in the Zone too, on Saturday, November 14, at noon Eastern. Episodes mentioned: Episode 1: How Centering Your Students Transforms Your TeachingEpisode 4: The Importance of Learning Your Students’ NamesEpisode 15: Teach Your NicheEpisode 22: The Power of FeedbackEpisode 32: How to Be a Gracious Host to Your StudentsEpisode 38: How to Sub Yoga Classes Without Apologizing or Losing Your StyleEpisode 48: How to Plan Your Yoga Class Quickly and Easily with the Prep Station (includes the S.E.R.V.E. Method)Listen now! Free open house for my online 200-hour yoga teacher training: Saturday, November 14, at noon Eastern. A mini-lesson on finding your teaching superpower and a look inside the curriculum. Can’t make it live? RSVP anyway and I’ll send the replay. RSVP for the open house Live online classes are back in the Prep Station this fall: one lesson plan a month, taught live by me on three Mondays, 6:00–7:00 p.m. Eastern, with 15 minutes afterward to talk teaching. Balance Play Trio in September, Yoga for All Athletes in October, Meet the Warriors in November. Every class posts as a recording. Membership is $39 a month. Practice with me The next cohort of Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing Mentorship Membership—MMM, my six-month group mentorship for yoga teachers—starts in January 2027, and the wait list is open now. Doors open to the wait list first, in December, before anyone else hears about it. MMM is also the required half of the Comfort Zone Yoga 300-hour yoga teacher training. Add your name: Want to become (almost) everyone's favorite yoga teacher? Join Comfort Zone Yoga, my virtual studio focused on teacher development. I have a ton of Sage advice in there for you! For more insights, subscribe to Yoga Teacher Confidential, check out my YouTube channel, and follow me on socials: InstagramFacebookThreadsAnd come explore my mentorship program, Yoga Class Prep Station membership, continuing education and 200/300/500-hour teacher training programs, and my many books for yoga teachers. It's all at sagerountree.com. ...

  2. Oct 27 ·  Video

    109. What Most Yoga Teachers Get Wrong About Core: Five Misunderstandings and the Objections Underneath

    When most yoga teachers hear the word core, the picture that flashes up has nothing to do with yoga: a gym floor, a timer, somebody counting crunches, an ad promising a flat stomach by summer. That picture is exactly why so many thoughtful, skilled teachers have decided core work is somebody else’s department. I understand the instinct completely, and I want to challenge it, because the picture is wrong. In this episode I’m walking through five misunderstandings about core in a yoga context. Core means abs (it doesn’t; your core is a 360-degree cylinder with the diaphragm as the roof and the pelvic floor as the floor). Teaching core means importing crunches (it doesn’t; the work is already latent in the lunges and transitions you teach). Core is the intensity garnish, a boat-pose minute wedged in before the wind-down. Students with sensitive backs should sit it out. And the big one: you need a personal-training credential or a physio degree before you’re allowed to teach strength. Then I answer the objections out loud: “my students come to relax,” “I can piece this together from free videos,” “I don’t have time this fall,” and “it’s an investment.” Knowledge was never the bottleneck. What free content can’t give you is a method: the sequence to learn things in, progressions and regressions side by side so you can serve the 70-year-old and the triathlete in the same room, and cueing language tested on real classes. By the end you’ll know why breath belongs at the center of any honest core conversation, why the transitions are the curriculum, and what a sensitive back actually needs (a smarter on-ramp, not an exemption). And a heads-up: the Fundamentals of Teaching Core Strength course is on sale now, 20% off through Saturday, October 31, at comfortzoneyoga.com/core. Whether or not you take it, the homework from episode 107 still stands: audit your class plans for the two core actions and slow one transition down on purpose. Listen now! Free open house for my online 200-hour yoga teacher training: Saturday, November 14, at noon Eastern. A mini-lesson on finding your teaching superpower and a look inside the curriculum. Can’t make it live? RSVP anyway and I’ll send the replay. RSVP for the open house Live online classes are back in the Prep Station this fall: one lesson plan a month, taught live by me on three Mondays, 6:00–7:00 p.m. Eastern, with 15 minutes afterward to talk teaching. Balance Play Trio in September, Yoga for All Athletes in October, Meet the Warriors in November. Every class posts as a recording. Membership is $39 a month. Practice with me The next cohort of Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing Mentorship Membership—MMM, my six-month group mentorship for yoga teachers—starts in January 2027, and the wait list is open now. Doors open to the wait list first, in December, before anyone else hears about it. MMM is also the required half of the Comfort Zone Yoga 300-hour yoga teacher training. Add your name: Want to become (almost) everyone's favorite yoga teacher? Join Comfort Zone Yoga, my virtual studio focused on teacher development. I have a ton of Sage advice in there for you! For more insights, subscribe to Yoga Teacher Confidential, check out my YouTube channel, and follow me on socials: InstagramFacebookThreadsAnd come explore my mentorship program, Yoga Class Prep Station membership, continuing education and 200/300/500-hour teacher training programs, and my many books for yoga teachers. It's all at sagerountree.com. ...

  3. Oct 20 ·  Video

    108. The Two Arrows: Yoga Philosophy for When Life Hurts

    It’s Sunday night. You have three classes to teach this week and you’re staring at a blank notebook, 45 minutes into scrolling for sequence ideas, five browser tabs open, nothing right for the actual students who’ll show up tomorrow. That’s the first arrow: the real challenge of building a class. Somewhere around minute 30, a voice crept in. Everyone else just walks in and teaches. What’s wrong with me? That’s the second arrow, and it hurts a lot more than the blank page ever did. In this episode I’m sharing one of the most useful concepts in all of yoga philosophy: the two arrows of suffering, which comes from the Buddhist tradition and which Alexandra DeSiato and I explore through the Sanskrit word dukha in Yoga Off the Mat. Dukha literally means “bad axle space,” the off-center wheel that grinds on every rotation. For yoga teachers it isn’t the class that went badly. It’s the low-grade friction that accumulates: the hours spent planning, the confidence that never quite arrives, the comparison to every other teacher on your feed. The first arrow is the thing that happens: the student who leaves early, the workshop that doesn’t fill, the feedback that stings. The second arrow is what you do after: the story, the rumination, the verdict on your entire worth as a teacher. I walk through the three flavors that second arrow takes (the story of meaning, the projection forward, and the retrospective edit) and how the five kleshas load the bow. And I’m careful about the line between this teaching and “get over it,” because the first arrow is real and pretending otherwise is spiritual bypassing. You’ll leave with one question to ask the next time it hurts (“Is this the first arrow or the second?”), a handful of practices from the book’s ACTIONS box, and a single cue you can use in class this week without a word of Sanskrit: “Notice if you’re adding a story to the sensation.” The book is at https://sagerountree.com/yoga-off-the-mat/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=yoga-off-the-mat&utm_content=e108. And if weaving philosophy into classes so it actually lands is the work you want to go deeper in, that’s what we do together in Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing, my six-month mentorship: https://sagerountree.com/mentorship/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mentorship&utm_content=e108 To practice with a community of yoga teachers doing this same work, join more than 3,300 of us in The Zone, my free community: https://www.comfortzoneyoga.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-zone&utm_content=e108 Listen now! Free open house for my online 200-hour yoga teacher training: Saturday, November 14, at noon Eastern. A mini-lesson on finding your teaching superpower and a look inside the curriculum. Can’t make it live? RSVP anyway and I’ll send the replay. RSVP for the open house Live online classes are back in the Prep Station this fall: one lesson plan a month, taught live by me on three Mondays, 6:00–7:00 p.m. Eastern, with 15 minutes afterward to talk teaching. Balance Play Trio in September, Yoga for All Athletes in October, Meet the Warriors in November. Every class posts as a recording. Membership is $39 a month. Practice with me The next cohort of Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing Mentorship Membership—MMM, my six-month group mentorship for yoga teachers—starts in January 2027, and the wait list is open now. Doors open to the wait list first, in December, before anyone else hears about it. MMM is also the required half of the Comfort Zone Yoga 300-hour yoga teacher training. Add your name: Want to become (almost) everyone's favorite yoga teacher? Join Comfort Zone Yoga, my virtual studio focused on teacher development. I have a ton of Sage advice in there for you! For more insights, subscribe to Yoga Teacher Confidential, check out my YouTube channel, and follow me on socials: InstagramFacebookThreadsAnd come explore my mentorship program, Yoga Class Prep Station membership, continuing education and 200/300/500-hour teacher training programs, and my many books for yoga teachers. It's all at sagerountree.com. ...

  4. Oct 13 ·  Video

    107. How Learning to Teach Core Makes You a More Useful Yoga Teacher

    Sooner or later, a student stops you on the way out the door with three words: “More core, please.” For a long time I answered that request badly, tacking three rounds of bicycles into the middle of an otherwise unrelated class and calling it giving the people what they wanted. This episode is the case I wish someone had made to me early on: learning to teach core well makes you a more useful yoga teacher, in the room, in your students’ actual lives, and in your own career. I start with the word underneath the word. When a student asks for more core, they’re almost never asking for crunches. They’re asking to feel capable: strong through the middle, able to trust their body, able to get through the day without the low back or the neck picking up slack it would rather not carry. The strength-coaching line that reorganized my thinking says it in eight words: you can’t fire a cannon from a canoe. One of the endurance athletes I coached, Ruffin Powell, gave me the best image I’ve ever heard for what happens when the platform gives out: shrimping. Then the sorting tool, small enough to fit on a napkin and the 2 in my 6–4–2 formula. Everything the core does falls into two jobs: stabilization (the trunk holds the spine and pelvis steady while the limbs move) and articulation (the muscles work in turn to move the spine one segment after another). Once you can see those two jobs, a pile of unrelated exercises turns into craft, and you can look at any core exercise ever invented and know in a breath what it’s doing. I also walk through the four places core already lives in a standard 60-minute flow, plus the one almost nobody teaches on purpose: the transition from the floor to standing and back. You’ll leave with three pieces of homework for this week’s lesson plan: mark every core-relevant moment S or A, slow one floor-to-standing transition down to four or five breaths, and ask the next student who requests more core what exactly they’re hoping for. The full Teaching Core Strength call of the month I taught on October 8 is waiting as a free replay in the Zone, my free community for yoga teachers, and on YouTube. The bird-dog ladder from that call is a free one-page printable: get the ladder. My new 20-CEU course, Fundamentals of Teaching Core Strength, opens to everyone at 20% off on Monday, October 26, for the last week of October. If this episode was useful to you, a rating or review wherever you listen is the simplest way to help another yoga teacher find the show. Listen now! Free open house for my online 200-hour yoga teacher training: Saturday, November 14, at noon Eastern. A mini-lesson on finding your teaching superpower and a look inside the curriculum. Can’t make it live? RSVP anyway and I’ll send the replay. RSVP for the open house Live online classes are back in the Prep Station this fall: one lesson plan a month, taught live by me on three Mondays, 6:00–7:00 p.m. Eastern, with 15 minutes afterward to talk teaching. Balance Play Trio in September, Yoga for All Athletes in October, Meet the Warriors in November. Every class posts as a recording. Membership is $39 a month. Practice with me The next cohort of Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing Mentorship Membership—MMM, my six-month group mentorship for yoga teachers—starts in January 2027, and the wait list is open now. Doors open to the wait list first, in December, before anyone else hears about it. MMM is also the required half of the Comfort Zone Yoga 300-hour yoga teacher training. Add your name: Want to become (almost) everyone's favorite yoga teacher? Join Comfort Zone Yoga, my virtual studio focused on teacher development. I have a ton of Sage advice in there for you! For more insights, subscribe to Yoga Teacher Confidential, check out my YouTube channel, and follow me on socials: InstagramFacebookThreadsAnd come explore my mentorship program, Yoga Class Prep Station membership, continuing education and 200/300/500-hour teacher training programs, and my many books for yoga teachers. It's all at sagerountree.com. ...

  5. Oct 6 ·  Video

    106. The Shadow Self in Autumn: The Five Kleshas in the Teacher’s Seat

    Autumn is my favorite season for a slightly embarrassing reason: as the light gets lower, everything casts a longer shadow, and I find that weirdly reassuring. The shadows were there all summer. You just couldn’t see them at high noon. That’s the whole premise of this episode, which goes somewhere more specific and more uncomfortable than the survey I gave you back in episode 91: what the five kleshas, yoga’s five obstacles, look like when they follow you into the teacher’s seat. Because they do follow you in. Avidya, wrong-seeing, is counting 11 students in a room that used to hold 20 and deciding, in one exhale, that you’re a bad teacher. Asmita, ego, is the toddler who can only say “me,” checking who showed up before deciding how much to give. Raga and dvesha, craving and aversion, are the full room you chase and the 6:00 a.m. Monday class you dread. And abhinivesha, the fear of the unknown, shows up as clinging and over-planning, the compulsion to script every transition because the unknown feels unsafe. Then I turn to the shadow itself. Most of us somehow picked up a job description along the way that nobody ever wrote: permanently calm, endlessly generous, beyond craving and aversion. So we perform serenity, and the performance wears a groove into a rut. What gets shoved out of view doesn’t disappear. It leaks, as the snarky aside about another studio, the relentless positivity, the burnout that seems to arrive from nowhere. Your believability as a teacher doesn’t come from having transcended anything. It comes from being a whole person who practices anyway. You’ll leave with five small practices, one per klesha, most adapted from the actions Alexandra DeSiato and I offer in Yoga Off the Mat: Byron Katie’s two questions for avidya, a loving self-callout for asmita, a three-breath pause for craving and aversion, a memento mori for the fear of the unknown, and a 10-minute weekly journal for the compulsions underneath it all. Plus two boundaries that make the work safer, and an invitation to let one performance fall this season, the way the trees are demonstrating. If Yoga Off the Mat has been useful to you, Alexandra and I would be so grateful for a five-star rating and review on your favorite bookseller site. If you don’t have it yet, you can find it here: https://sagerountree.com/yoga-off-the-mat/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=yoga-off-the-mat&utm_content=e106 Listen now! Free open house for my online 200-hour yoga teacher training: Saturday, November 14, at noon Eastern. A mini-lesson on finding your teaching superpower and a look inside the curriculum. Can’t make it live? RSVP anyway and I’ll send the replay. RSVP for the open house Live online classes are back in the Prep Station this fall: one lesson plan a month, taught live by me on three Mondays, 6:00–7:00 p.m. Eastern, with 15 minutes afterward to talk teaching. Balance Play Trio in September, Yoga for All Athletes in October, Meet the Warriors in November. Every class posts as a recording. Membership is $39 a month. Practice with me The next cohort of Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing Mentorship Membership—MMM, my six-month group mentorship for yoga teachers—starts in January 2027, and the wait list is open now. Doors open to the wait list first, in December, before anyone else hears about it. MMM is also the required half of the Comfort Zone Yoga 300-hour yoga teacher training. Add your name: Want to become (almost) everyone's favorite yoga teacher? Join Comfort Zone Yoga, my virtual studio focused on teacher development. I have a ton of Sage advice in there for you! For more insights, subscribe to Yoga Teacher Confidential, check out my YouTube channel, and follow me on socials: InstagramFacebookThreadsAnd come explore my mentorship program, Yoga Class Prep Station membership, continuing education and 200/300/500-hour teacher training programs, and my many books for yoga teachers. It's all at sagerountree.com. ...

  6. Sep 29 ·  Video

    105. Introduction to Teaching Yoga Nidra: What Do I Actually Say for 20 Minutes?

    Twenty minutes of continuous talking to a room full of people lying still with their eyes closed has scared off more experienced yoga teachers than any arm-balance workshop ever has. I hear the same question from teachers who can sequence a 90-minute class in their sleep: what do I actually say for 20 minutes? If that question has stopped you from offering yoga nidra, this episode is your orientation session. I’m walking through what yoga nidra actually is, why it’s a distinct practice rather than a very long savasana, and how it differs from meditation in one specific way: in nidra, your voice carries the student’s attention for them. That’s exactly what makes it intimidating from the teacher’s seat, and exactly what makes it learnable. Continuous narration sounds like improv. It isn’t. It follows a map that has been in the tradition for a very long time: the koshas, the five layers of the self that Alexandra DeSiato and I describe in Yoga Off the Mat as a set of nested lampshades. You’ll also hear why your students need this more than almost anything else on the schedule. Nearly every class asks students for more output, and skilled, structured, permission-granting rest is the one thing most of them get nowhere. Nidra is also radically accessible: the student rehabbing a shoulder, the pregnant student, the 75-year-old newcomer, and the student who “can’t meditate” can all do this practice completely on the first try. By the end, you’ll have three things to do this week: practice nidra yourself as a student, play the which-you-is-which game with the kosha map, and draft two minutes of body-scan language and listen back to yourself. Then come build the rest with me on Thursday, October 15, at this month’s Comfort Zone Conversation on teaching yoga nidra, free in the Zone. If you want the complete training with full scripts and continuing education credit, that’s the Fundamentals of Teaching Yoga Nidra course: https://www.comfortzoneyoga.com/nidra Start this week with the free 5-Minute Yoga Nidra Script: https://www.comfortzoneyoga.com/nidrascript?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=nidrascript&utm_content=e105 Listen now! Free open house for my online 200-hour yoga teacher training: Saturday, November 14, at noon Eastern. A mini-lesson on finding your teaching superpower and a look inside the curriculum. Can’t make it live? RSVP anyway and I’ll send the replay. RSVP for the open house Live online classes are back in the Prep Station this fall: one lesson plan a month, taught live by me on three Mondays, 6:00–7:00 p.m. Eastern, with 15 minutes afterward to talk teaching. Balance Play Trio in September, Yoga for All Athletes in October, Meet the Warriors in November. Every class posts as a recording. Membership is $39 a month. Practice with me The next cohort of Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing Mentorship Membership—MMM, my six-month group mentorship for yoga teachers—starts in January 2027, and the wait list is open now. Doors open to the wait list first, in December, before anyone else hears about it. MMM is also the required half of the Comfort Zone Yoga 300-hour yoga teacher training. Add your name: Want to become (almost) everyone's favorite yoga teacher? Join Comfort Zone Yoga, my virtual studio focused on teacher development. I have a ton of Sage advice in there for you! For more insights, subscribe to Yoga Teacher Confidential, check out my YouTube channel, and follow me on socials: InstagramFacebookThreadsAnd come explore my mentorship program, Yoga Class Prep Station membership, continuing education and 200/300/500-hour teacher training programs, and my many books for yoga teachers. It's all at sagerountree.com. ...

  7. Sep 22 ·  Video

    104. Revisiting Atha—The Yoga Sutras' First Word

    Every September I promise myself this will be the year I stay on top of my class planning. By week four, the notebook holds four lesson plans and a grocery list, and the fall shine has worn off—for me and for my students. In this episode, I'm revisiting atha, the very first word of the Yoga Sutras and one my coauthor Alexandra DeSiato and I return to throughout our new book, Yoga Off the Mat. Atha means now, and it turns out to be exactly the word a mid-season teacher needs. I walk through what atha actually means (it's not just an auspicious opener—it assumes the student arriving has already lived some life before showing up), why week four is when the syllabus meets reality, and three ways to teach with atha this month: building it into your opening minutes, using it as a mid-class reset, and giving your own fall schedule a midterm look without overhauling everything. If the season's early shine has started to wear thin, in your own teaching or your students' attendance, this episode meets you exactly where you are. Free open house for my online 200-hour yoga teacher training: Saturday, November 14, at noon Eastern. A mini-lesson on finding your teaching superpower and a look inside the curriculum. Can’t make it live? RSVP anyway and I’ll send the replay. RSVP for the open house Live online classes are back in the Prep Station this fall: one lesson plan a month, taught live by me on three Mondays, 6:00–7:00 p.m. Eastern, with 15 minutes afterward to talk teaching. Balance Play Trio in September, Yoga for All Athletes in October, Meet the Warriors in November. Every class posts as a recording. Membership is $39 a month. Practice with me The next cohort of Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing Mentorship Membership—MMM, my six-month group mentorship for yoga teachers—starts in January 2027, and the wait list is open now. Doors open to the wait list first, in December, before anyone else hears about it. MMM is also the required half of the Comfort Zone Yoga 300-hour yoga teacher training. Add your name: Want to become (almost) everyone's favorite yoga teacher? Join Comfort Zone Yoga, my virtual studio focused on teacher development. I have a ton of Sage advice in there for you! For more insights, subscribe to Yoga Teacher Confidential, check out my YouTube channel, and follow me on socials: InstagramFacebookThreadsAnd come explore my mentorship program, Yoga Class Prep Station membership, continuing education and 200/300/500-hour teacher training programs, and my many books for yoga teachers. It's all at sagerountree.com. ...

  8. Sep 15 ·  Video

    103. Back-to-School Energy in Yoga Class and What to Do When Your September Motivation Fades

    Every September I watch teachers, myself included, sign up for something new: a fresh planning system, a training, a whole approach to class we’re sure will finally stick. By October, most of it has quietly stalled out. In this episode, I’m talking about the difference between motivation and discipline, and why the surge you’re feeling right now is weather, not climate. I dig into tapas, yoga’s teaching on disciplined effort, and why the structure that looks like it limits your teaching is actually what sets it free. You’ll hear how a restaurant kitchen’s mise en place explains why prep work is what makes spontaneous, responsive teaching possible, and why a small, repeatable habit beats an ambitious overhaul every time. By the end, you’ll have a concrete way to build a planning structure that holds up long after the fall motivation fades, and a better way to talk with your own students about discipline, so it lands as relief instead of a report card. Listen now! Free open house for my online 200-hour yoga teacher training: Saturday, November 14, at noon Eastern. A mini-lesson on finding your teaching superpower and a look inside the curriculum. Can’t make it live? RSVP anyway and I’ll send the replay. RSVP for the open house Live online classes are back in the Prep Station this fall: one lesson plan a month, taught live by me on three Mondays, 6:00–7:00 p.m. Eastern, with 15 minutes afterward to talk teaching. Balance Play Trio in September, Yoga for All Athletes in October, Meet the Warriors in November. Every class posts as a recording. Membership is $39 a month. Practice with me The next cohort of Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing Mentorship Membership—MMM, my six-month group mentorship for yoga teachers—starts in January 2027, and the wait list is open now. Doors open to the wait list first, in December, before anyone else hears about it. MMM is also the required half of the Comfort Zone Yoga 300-hour yoga teacher training. Add your name: Want to become (almost) everyone's favorite yoga teacher? Join Comfort Zone Yoga, my virtual studio focused on teacher development. I have a ton of Sage advice in there for you! For more insights, subscribe to Yoga Teacher Confidential, check out my YouTube channel, and follow me on socials: InstagramFacebookThreadsAnd come explore my mentorship program, Yoga Class Prep Station membership, continuing education and 200/300/500-hour teacher training programs, and my many books for yoga teachers. It's all at sagerountree.com. ...

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Yoga Teacher Confidential is your backstage pass to the unspoken truths of being a yoga teacher. Sage Rountree, PhD, E-RYT500, dives into the real challenges and rewards of teaching yoga, offering expert advice and secrets to help you build confidence, connect with your students, and teach with authenticity. Sage draws on her two decades of experience teaching yoga, owning and running a studio, mentoring yoga teachers, and directing yoga teacher trainings to share practical insights you can use right away. You’ll also hear advice from her books, including Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, The Art of Yoga Sequencing, and The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook—plus her newest, Yoga Off the Mat, available now. Whether you’re navigating imposter syndrome, mastering classroom presence, or refining your skills to teach specialized niches like athletes, this podcast empowers you to lead your classes with clarity, grace, and ease.

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