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