This week I'm teaching a yoga class that focuses primarily on the foot. We manipulate and maneuver the feet and stand unsteady in many familiar poses. The purpose is to highlight how much we are NOT using and focusing on the feet in everyday movement. Even in a practice that invites a deeper relationship to move our bodies with intention. My goal as a yoga teacher is to encourage students to break out of the constraints of everyday yoga and use it as a template or starting

Yoga teachers hear this a lot: "It felt like you were talking directly to me!" Or: "The class was exactly what I needed...how did you know?!!" How is this so consistently possible in a room full of sweaty individualists?? At the risk of sounding trite; It's the yoga. Not a clarivoyent yoga teacher. Yoga was "designed" to give us mere humans a tool box to help us out with the hard stuff. No matter where you come from, geographically, culturally, class, race, lifestyle, we al