Teaching Is Teaching
Whether I'm guiding someone into crow pose or through their first production deploy, the skill is the same: read the room, meet them where they are, build confidence before complexity.
I've been practicing yoga for forty years. I'm a certified instructor — RYT-200 and chair yoga. That arc dovetails with thirty-five-plus years leading dev teams, teaching at schools, mentoring juniors — the timelines run parallel and the work is the same. You watch, you listen, you adjust. You don't perform; you hold space so someone else can do the work.
Daily practice. Not dramatic reinvention, just showing up and doing the thing. Teaching yoga is a daily practice in presence and patience — the same qualities that make a good mentor, tech lead, or pair programmer. You learn to stay with the uncomfortable moment instead of rushing past it. That transfers.
On the Mat
I teach what I call common sense yoga — classical hatha yoga, nothing fancy. I use the Sanskrit names for postures because that's how my teachers taught me, and their teachers before them. It's a way of paying homage to the lineage. The language carries something that "pigeon pose" doesn't.
The approach is direct: clear cues, honest modifications, respect for where you are today. I'm interested in helping people move better and breathe better, not in building a brand around it.
The best classes I teach feel like the best pairing sessions I've run: both people leave knowing something they didn't know before, and nobody had to pretend they already knew it.