There are four major reasons why you feel like your yoga practice isn’t what it once was and each one of them is completely fixable. Let’s dive in and take a look:

#1. You know so much more about great alignment and proper technique than when you first started.

So, this is the number...

There is a huge reason people don’t like yoga. Wanna know what it is? It’s discomfort.

Yoga is wildly uncomfortable most of the time.

As a yoga instructor, I have seen the gamut of students working against the posture instead of through it, all in the name of finding some shred of...

And, I’m ready to share it with you.

No, it's not, “Keep going.” Because if you’ve followed me for any amount of time you would know that’s just a given. Keep going with your practice. Even when you want to stop. Even when yoga feels like its somehow working against...

And, it’s become such a cliché. Especially, for people that practice yoga, like us. Do you feel this way, too?

The phrase, “Let it go,” is on t-shirts, coffee mugs, billboards, and in your social media feed. Sometimes you’ll see it fashioning a modern-day cuss word...

At the beginning of this year I had to admit to myself that the reason I couldn’t see my book at night was not because I had just taken off my eye make-up with coconut oil. The oil was not blurring my vision. I could not see the words on the page because my eyesight was not as good as it...

Back bending is HUGE part of yoga. In fact, there were years of my practice where they were all I thought about, all I focused on, and the only thing I that mattered.

And, though those days are gone like the ones in which donned 4-inch heels because I liked the way it made my legs look no matter...

I think I was seriously overwhelmed for the first five years as a yoga teacher. Deciding to put my acting career on the back burner and pay attention to what was truly giving me joy was a big life defining moment for me. I knew I was supposed to teach. I knew it would change my life. But there...

“Tori, can you demonstrate Triangle for the rest of the class?” she asked. And, I felt a glow of pride at the request. 

Yoga over the past three years had become my refuge – helping me recover from my eating disorder, releasing the constant stress and pressure from working...

Please don’t worry. I’ve made this mistake, too. It happened mainly in the beginning of my career as a yoga instructor. And I honestly didn’t know I was making it.

What I did, was assume I knew the whole story.

You see a student day after day, year after year. You know their...

I’m a yes-sir/ma’m-whatever-you-want-me-to-do kind of gal. I always have been. When I’m on my mat as a student instead of an instructor, I’ll do what the teacher leading the class asks of me as much as I possibly can.

Through the years this has led to some super...

You heard me. I have learned the best yoga cheat EVER. This is the one thing you need to be able to perform the posture you want to the most. No kidding. It’s taken me years to have the guts to divulge this information and there will be people out there who won’t like that I’m...

Over the past three years every time I walked out of a Bikram Class I felt more injured than healed. I would try not to limp as I left the room, sliding my sweaty feet across the room until I hit the cooler air outside of what is considered the “hot room.” Yet, the next day I’d...