One hundred Tuesdays, and I have opened every single episode with the same five words. I never planned it that way, and I never mentioned it out loud until now, which is a little funny given that I have spent two years telling yoga teachers that repeating yourself is a professional skill rather than a failure of imagination.
In this episode I look back at what actually changed over ninety-nine weeks. I got the register of the show wrong at the start: I thought you wanted confessional, and what you wanted was useful. I sold my yoga studio, which gave the thinking room it never had while I was running a brick and mortar studio. And I started writing the episodes out in full sentences instead of teaching from bullet points, which made them shorter rather than stiffer.
I also went back through two years of comments and found two yoga teachers whose stories I had been following without meaning t—one planning her very first class, one teaching her last—along with the three things you keep telling me: consistency beats variety, the worry about being good enough does not care how experienced you are, and service beats performance every time.
If you have ever felt guilty about repeating a lesson plan for the students in front of you, this one is for you. Ninety-nine episodes of the same structure with one topic swapped each week, and nobody got bored: that is the argument, and the show itself is the evidence. I also tell you where the next stretch of episodes is headed, and what I would like from you—specific topic requests from your own classroom. Listen now!
September’s lesson plan in the Prep Station is Balance Play Trio. The recording is already waiting in the Movement Library, and I teach the plan live on Mondays, September 14, 21, and 28, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern, with 15 minutes afterward for your questions. Every class posts as a recording. It’s all part of the Yoga Class Prep Station, $39 a month.
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