Guides for yoga teachers
Planning and sequencing classes, finding teaching work and understanding what it pays — with real numbers and sources.
Planning & sequencing
How to Sequence a Yoga Class: A Framework for Teachers
Seven decisions, made in the right order, turn a blank page into a class you can teach tomorrow. With a worked 60-minute example and a pre-class check.
7 min read
How to Plan a Week of Yoga Classes in Under an Hour
If every class starts from a blank page, planning eats your week. Build a few base classes, change three things at a time, and plan the whole week in one sitting.
5 min read
Yoga Class Structure: Timings for 30 to 90-Minute Classes
How many minutes each part of the class gets — for vinyasa, slow flow, hatha, gentle and restorative, from 30 to 90 minutes — and what changes as a class gets longer.
6 min read
How Many Poses in a Yoga Class? Real Numbers by Style and Length
Counts from 19 hand-built class plans and hundreds of generated ones, the formula behind them, and why the right number is usually smaller than you think.
4 min read
Peak Pose Sequencing: How to Build a Class Toward One Pose
Work backwards from one pose, build a ladder toward it, offer it at three levels, and plan the ten minutes after it as carefully as the ten before.
5 min read
Yoga Transitions: How to Link Poses Smoothly
Most rough classes aren't caused by the poses but by the spaces between them. Plan those spaces: fewer level changes, stance families, bridge poses and one-breath cues.
5 min read
Yoga Sequencing Apps for Teachers: An Honest Comparison
Six tools compared on the things that change your planning week: how you start a class, what you can teach from, what you can print, and what it costs. Prices checked September 2026.
6 min read
Career & income
How to Get a Yoga Teaching Job: Where Jobs Are and How to Get Hired
Most first jobs don’t come from job boards. Who hires, where openings are really posted, a 30-day plan, and how to prepare the demo class that gets you on the schedule.
6 min read
Where to Find Yoga Teaching Jobs: Every Channel, With Examples
Five places to look at once — advertised jobs, the hidden studio market, direct outreach, substitute work and private clients — with current US and UK examples and a list to build this week.
5 min read
How Much Do Yoga Teachers Make? US Pay Per Class, Hour and Year
What studios, gyms and job postings actually pay, what that works out to once you count travel and planning, and how teachers who make a living combine their income.
6 min read
Side Hustles for Yoga Teachers: Realistic Options Compared
Extra income without teaching twenty studio classes a week: twelve options compared by how easy they are to start, how predictable, how scalable and who they suit — without invented earnings.
5 min read
How to Make a Living as a Yoga Teacher: Five Income Models
Five example teaching weeks with transparent assumptions: what each earns in a year, how many hours it really takes once travel and planning count, and how teachers get to full time.
5 min read
What to Charge for Private Yoga Sessions: A Pricing Framework
Set a floor from every hour a session really takes, check it against what studios near you charge, then structure groups, travel, packages and cancellations — with verified US examples.
6 min read