You want to become a yoga teacher — or maybe you want the education for yourself, without ever teaching a class. Either way, you’re staring at the same decision. Should you go all-in on an in-person yoga teacher training, or do it online? I’ve been running...
Let me name something you might not want to say out loud: you’re thinking about doing a 200-hour yoga teacher training, but you don’t actually want to teach yoga. You’re almost embarrassed to admit it. When you look at yoga teacher training programs,...
If you’ve been anywhere near modern yoga in the last two years, you’ve heard the phrase nervous system regulation. It’s on Instagram, in every wellness podcast, and increasingly in the conversations Barbie has with prospective students on the phone....
I have two sons. When my oldest was a toddler, and he started having the kind of full-body meltdowns that toddlers have, my body would react before my brain could catch up. I’d tense. My breath would get short. My voice would tighten. I’d want to fix it,...
A few years ago, when someone said “I’m doing my yoga teacher training,” you assumed they wanted to teach yoga. In 2026, that assumption is wrong about a third of the time. The fastest-growing kind of student in my Uplifted cohorts isn’t...
You’ve probably searched this question a dozen times. You’ve read the testimonials, watched the YouTube reviews, opened and closed three brochures. And still — the same question keeps looping in your head: is it actually worth it? Let me be the first...
