Teacher training was the beginning.
You learned how to teach yoga.
Now learn how to become a better teacher.
Individual coaching and direct feedback for yoga instructors who want to keep developing their craft.
I’m looking for five yoga teachers for an initial coaching pilot.
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Who’s helping you get better?
Most yoga teachers receive substantial instruction during teacher training. Then they start teaching. And much of the feedback stops.
Classes happen week after week without an experienced teacher observing the small things that change the experience: pacing, language, volume, timing, presence, movement, silence.
The question isn’t whether you’re good or bad. The question is: what could you adjust?
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Every class can be an experiment.
Every moment can be adjusted.
Almost every teaching choice sits somewhere on a spectrum. Effective teaching isn’t about moving toward one end of it.
It’s about noticing what you’re doing, seeing its effect, and learning when an adjustment would make your teaching more effective.
The dot isn’t the correct position. It’s a position you can observe and adjust.
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How it works
You teach.
A class of yours, taught the way you normally teach it.
I observe.
What’s already working, and the specific moments where a small change would land differently.
We talk.
A conversation, not a review. We look at it together.
You experiment.
You take a few observations into your next classes and notice what changes.
The objective is to help you discover what makes you both more authentic and more effective as an instructor.
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The students tell us. Without saying a word.
The measure of effective teaching isn’t whether someone tells you they liked your class. Look at the room.
- How are students responding to your cues?
- Do they understand what you're asking without looking around the room to figure it out?
- Is your instruction producing the response you intended?
The most useful feedback is often happening right in front of us.
How students respond to your instruction tells us something about whether what you intended to communicate actually arrived. Coaching helps you see those signals, understand them, and experiment with small adjustments.
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Josh Willis, M.Ed., E-RYT
I bring over 25 years of yoga practice and study, along with experience as a teacher, former studio owner, mentor, and instructor coach.
I hold an M.Ed. in Adult Training & Development, which directly informs my coaching: the science of adult learning, communication, feedback, experiential learning, and deliberate skill development.
Over the course of my career, I’ve identified 52 concepts that shape how you teach, not what you teach. They’re designed to help you feel more like yourself in the room, find your voice, communicate more clearly, deliver more effective cues, and improve your classes through observation, experimentation, and deliberate adjustment.
My methodology combines:
Experience. Experimentation. Empathy.
The goal isn’t to teach you to teach like me.
It’s to help you become more deliberate and effective at teaching like you.
Want someone to observe your class?
I’m looking for five yoga teachers who would like free, thoughtful feedback on their teaching.
This is an early pilot as I develop a new approach to ongoing professional development for yoga instructors.
If you’re curious, leave your email below. No sales pitch. No commitment.