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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99. What to Do When Your Yoga Class Goes Off the Rails
Aug 17, 202618 min
The second class I ever taught went off the rails before I said a word—and then I spent an hour making it worse by apologizing for not being the regular teacher. Two students set me straight the next day, and I still teach from that lesson two decades later. In this episode, I’m separating the two things yoga teachers mean when they say a class went off the rails: the logistics problem that happens in the room, and the private disaster that happens entirely inside your own head. Only one of those is visible to your students. I’ve covered the logistics side elsewhere on the show: medical issues (Episodes 34, 40, and 52), challenging behavior (Episode 33), rooms that are too small or too big (Episodes 39 and 49), phones and watches and timers (Episode 96), covering someone else’s class (Episode 38), and the class nobody shows up for (Episode 24). This episode is about the other kind. I draw on a few earlier conversations along the way: why the student who walks out mid-class almost never has anything to do with you (Episode 3), why a bored-looking face is usually a sign of concentration (Episode 8), why silence is a tool rather than a failure (Episode 19), and why one honest debrief beats replaying the tape a fourteenth time (Episode 59). You’ll walk away with language for changing course mid-class, a way to triage what’s actually an emergency versus what’s just embarrassing, and permission to let a mistake pass without comment at all. Listen now! Choose Two—$900: https://www.comfortzoneyoga.com/checkout/fundamentals-bundle-choose-two Choose Three—$1,250: https://www.comfortzoneyoga.com/checkout/fundamentals-bundle-choose-three Choose Four—$1,500: h 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: Instagram Facebook Threads And 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 . ...
98. What Most Yoga Teachers Get Wrong About Teaching Yin
Aug 10, 202620 min
My husband took his first yin class with me at Kripalu and told me afterward that I should rename the practice. He wasn’t entirely wrong: a room built on stillness produced an enormous reaction in his body, and that’s yin working exactly as designed. In this episode, I break down the three mistakes I see yoga teachers make most often when they teach yin: treating it as a slower version of a flow class instead of its own physiology, cueing “find your edge” as though it’s a complete instruction, and building a class from five favorite poses instead of a real sequence. Yin looks like the easiest class on the schedule to teach, and it’s the one most likely to leave a teacher at the front of the room wondering what her job is right now. Getting the physiology, the cueing, and the sequencing right is what turns a yin class into one students come back for. You’ll walk away knowing what tension and compression actually explain about why every body looks different in the same shape, how to cue an entry so a first-time student understands what you mean, and how to adapt the 6–4–2 framework you already use for flow into a structured yin arc. Listen now! Join the Comfort Zone Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training—curriculum is open now and our live cohort runs September through November 2026. Be sure to tell your students who are interested in teaching, too! Read all about it here. 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: Instagram Facebook Threads And 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 . ...
97. All Yoga Pants Are See-Through: What to Wear and Where to Look as a Yoga Teacher
Aug 3, 20269 min
All yoga pants are see-through. Your expensive pair, the clearance-bin pair, all of them—under the right light, in a deep enough fold, the fabric gives away a little more than you bargained for. That isn't a flaw in you or your students. It's fabric and physics, plain and simple. In this lighthearted episode, I walk through the 2013 Lululemon recall that erased roughly two billion dollars in market value, then tell the story of my student Andrea, who landed a job teaching the New York Jets and got handed an XL t-shirt as her dress code. The lesson lands without anyone having to lecture: you read the room, and you dress for it. From there I get practical. There are two sides to this for teachers—what we wear and where we look. I share wardrobe advice you can use this week (including the dressing-room test that tells you the truth), when a private word to a student is genuinely a gift, and why looking away with kindness is its own form of hospitality. Underneath the jokes is something every teacher recognizes: the very human feeling of being seen before you feel ready. Dressing with care and looking away with grace is one small way we take care of the room—for our students and for ourselves. Curious about teaching athletes, dress code and all? That world is what I get into in my Teaching Yoga to Athletes training . Listen now! Join the Comfort Zone Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training—curriculum is open now and our live cohort runs September through November 2026. Be sure to tell your students who are interested in teaching, too! Read all about it here. 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: Instagram Facebook Threads And 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 . ...
96. Technology in the Yoga Room: Phones, Presence, and Consent
Jul 27, 202611 min
For years, I was the phone police. I taught with a sensitive wireless mic that glitched every time a phone buzzed, so I asked everyone to power down—and told myself I was protecting the practice. Then I watched a student at a workshop keep fidgeting with a little device. I caught myself judging her for it, until I realized it was her insulin monitor. That moment changed how I think about technology in class, and I want to share where I've landed. In this episode I walk through the small stuff I've learned to relax about and the two things I'll never bend on, both rooted in consent: staying present for the people in front of me, and never photographing a resting body without a clear yes. You'll also get six practical moves—meeting students in the middle with Do Not Disturb, recognizing when a phone is actually an accommodation, narrating your own tech use, teaching a class you know well enough to look up from, recording yourself to sharpen your craft, and honoring a studio's house rules. Stay relaxed about the phones, stay firm about presence and consent, and you'll run a warmer, more welcoming room. Listen now. Join the Comfort Zone Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training—curriculum is open now and our live cohort runs September through November 2026. Be sure to tell your students who are interested in teaching, too! Read all about it here. 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: Instagram Facebook Threads And 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 . ...
Most yoga teachers have heard some version of don't demo . Get off your mat. Cue with your words. Be a real teacher. The advice is reaching for something true—but the rule, as it usually gets delivered, hurts newer teachers and doesn't actually capture what experienced teachers are doing differently. In this episode, Sage walks through when demonstration genuinely serves your students (and when it doesn't), why studios that ban demo entirely are missing the point, and the truth that flips the whole conversation: the more you demo, the less you see. You'll hear the four ways to present a pose, the teacher-trainee habit that proves the teacher isn't really in the room, and the six rules for demoing in a way that keeps your eyes—and your attention—on the students who came to practice. Repetition is what makes all of this easier. Teach the same sequence over four weeks and your students learn the shapes; your demo load drops on its own. The Prep Station ($39/month) is built exactly for that—a 6–4–2 sequence each month, a Movement Library with 180+ follow-along practice videos so you've already had your practice, and a community of 2,400+ teachers refining their craft alongside you. Pull up a stool at comfortzoneyoga.com/prep . Join the conversation in The Zone, Sage's free community for yoga teachers, at comfortzoneyoga.com . And if this episode helped you think differently about your time on the mat in front of the room, please rate and review—it helps other teachers find the show. Join the Comfort Zone Yoga 200-hour yoga teacher training—curriculum is open now and our live cohort runs September through November 2026. Be sure to tell your students who are interested in teaching, too! Read all about it here. 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: Instagram Facebook Threads And 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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