When the Awkward Hits the Mat: How Yoga Teachers Can Recover Without Missing a Beat

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Every yoga teacher eventually faces a moment that makes the room go quiet for the wrong reasons — here's how to handle it without losing your footing or your students' trust.

No amount of teacher training prepares you for the student who falls asleep and starts snoring during savasana, the adjustment that lands wrong, or the moment you completely blank on a Sanskrit cue mid-sequence. Awkward moments in yoga classes are inevitable. How a teacher responds to them, however, is what separates the competent from the genuinely skilled.

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