In 2006, I was enrolled in a year-long yoga teacher training with Vishali Varga.

One weekend, we spent an entire day focused on observing downward-facing dog in each trainee. We discovered a range of ways that bodies can inhabit this basic yoga pose, and we learned to give different types of instructions about how to come into better alignment.

When it was my turn to be observed and coached, Vishali said:

“She has so much access to movement that … READ MORE