So, you’ve graduated from your 200-hour yoga teacher training. You’ve chanted the final Om, folded up your manual, and maybe even taught your first few classes. And now… cue the inner critic. I want to talk about some of the common “weaknesses” new yoga teachers experience — and why they might actually be signs that you’re right on track.

It's not uncommon after class for a student to sidle up to me and say something like, “It’s actually kind of nice when your knee clicks... makes you seem more human.” Which is always said in the tone of someone offering a compliment — as if my humanity was in doubt until proven by a rogue joint noise

I knew the research. I knew the practices. I knew the power of this work. And then, I got cancer.

In a yoga class the group is bound together by the experience of doing the practice. There is evidence to suggest that people who attend support groups for cancer are likely to survive longer, which indicates the positive effects of being able to communicate to others what you are going through. ,