
Yoga Teacher Confidential: Secrets of Becoming a Great Yoga Teacher
Yoga Teacher Confidential is your backstage pass to the unspoken truths of being a yoga teacher. Sage Rountree, PhD, E-RYT500, dives into the real challenges and rewards of teaching yoga, offering expert advice and secrets to help you build confidence, connect with your students, and teach with authenticity. Sage draws on her two decades of experience teaching yoga, running a studio, and training teachers to share practical insights you can use right away. You'll also hear advice from her books, including Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, The Art of Yoga Sequencing, and The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook. Whether you’re navigating imposter syndrome, mastering classroom presence, or refining your skills to teach specialized niches like athletes, this podcast empowers you to lead your classes with clarity, grace, and ease.
Yoga Teacher Confidential: Secrets of Becoming a Great Yoga Teacher
43. Repetition Builds Confidence: Nyisha Rylander’s Journey Teaching Yoga on Kauai
What if the secret to confidence wasn’t doing something new—but doing the same thing, over and over again?
In this episode, I talk with Nyisha Rylander, who teaches yoga in three very different contexts on the island of Kauai: at a local gym with regular students, at resorts with one-time guests, and online as part of her health coaching business. You’ll hear how she used one master sequence—what she calls her “resort yoga”—as a template that built her fluency and freed up her attention for her students.
We talk about how her planning process has evolved, how she overcame the impulse to change everything all the time, and what finally clicked to help her feel like a real teacher instead of just an instructor.
You’ll also hear how being part of my mentorship program, Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing (MMM), gave her structure, inspiration, and access to a community of fellow teachers walking the same path.
If you’re a new teacher, a part-time teacher, or someone transitioning between platforms, this conversation will remind you that confidence comes not from complexity—but from clarity and consistency.
In this episode:
- How Nyisha moved from cosmetology to yoga teaching in a pandemic pivot
- What changed when she taught the same class repeatedly to new students
- How she built a personal practice library and online video platform
- The value of vignettes, structure, and learning to trust your memory
- How MMM gave her tools and support for sustainable growth
- Why repetition isn’t just okay—it’s the path to creative, embodied teaching
Links:
- Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing (MMM): https://sagerountree.com/mentorship
- Nyisha’s website: https://nyishayogakauai.com
- Nyisha's podcast: Sacred Souls
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Can I tell you something? The key to building your confidence as a yoga teacher is to stop being afraid of repeating yourself. Once you start to repeat your lesson plans with only minor variations, class to class. That's when you really step into your full power as a yoga teacher. It's also how you can dial down the amount of demonstrating that you're doing in class and how you can instead put your eyes on your students so you can adapt to their needs moment to moment. I am Sage Rountree, and this is Yoga Teacher Confidential: Secrets of Becoming a Great Yoga Teacher. Here to tell us about this secret of leaning into repetition is my student, Nyisha Rylander. Nyisha Rylander, I'm so happy to have you here on Yoga Teacher Confidential. Now, I, if people are not watching this as the video podcast, I think they need to come to YouTube and do watch it on YouTube or on Spotify video, because your backdrop looks like it's ai, but it isn't. Why don't you tell us where you are and how you came to be there? Um, so hello. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Um, my name is Nyisha Rylander and I live on, uh, the island of Kauai, Hawaii, which is also known as the Garden Island. So you can see the garden behind me. This is just my little backyard. and well, the story of how I got here, I've been here since 2020, so I'll try to keep it brief 'cause it's. A long story kind of, but it was a very interesting story. Kauai has this, um, sort of legend that if the island loves you, she'll keep you. If she doesn't love you, she'll kind of kick you off the island. And it also works with trying to move here or come here. So sometimes people will be here for a few months or whatever. And so, and we didn't know that coming in, my husband and I moved here. We had had never been here before. We'd been to a couple of other islands. And our, um, we live part-time in Costa Rica up until 2020, but because of all the stuff that happened, the country was closed down, we couldn't go. And, um, both of our jobs changed dramatically overnight because of all the regulations in California. And I had a hair salon for. 20 plus years, 27 years. and I was ready to retire. And when COVID happened, I, you know, that we couldn't work, um, in the, the state of California at all. I had always loved yoga and all of my yoga teacher people that I loved, even from different places that I used to live like Massachusetts, we're doing these free online classes, which nobody really did at the time. So I'm going into how I got into teaching yoga and how I moved here at the same time.'cause it's a very woven story. So I took my first online training in 2020. It was online and it was actually a pretty good program and I just chose it because of the fact that it was very, comprehensive in a lot of ways and it was not an easy one to do. And, um, so that was my 200 hour and I did that during the, you know, the initial lockdowns. And then, um, my husband and I decided to move here and, um. I didn't teach for actually a couple years when I first moved here, partially because of the lockdowns here. It was very, very tight. We're a small island. We have two ICU beds on the entire island. That is it. So we really had to keep everything together. So when we first moved here, um, there was no tourists at all. And, um. Boy, how we got here. I mean, I'm kind of going back and forth because it's so interwoven, but, um, basically we moved here because we couldn't go to Costa Rica and we thought we'd stay here for six months and we're here and it's five years later. So that's the short story. There's all these other little details. But, um, so then we moved here and the, the lockdown was here and I had just given up my hair salon business that I've been doing since I was 17 years old. And that was the only job I've ever had in my life. I, I, um, got my license right out of high school and I did go to college for a few years, uh, for business, and then I just went full force. So I was here, it was locked down. The island has about 70,000 residents that live here and about a hundred thousand on any given day of tourists. So you can understand when we came here, having never been here, and then coming from Los Angeles, there was like nobody here and it was super quiet. We had to do two weeks in the house that we moved into, which we had obviously no furniture. We had nothing and we couldn't leave the house for two weeks. So we arrived in the middle of the night we had to take an Uber, which was the first time we'd ever done anything 'cause we were super, um. You know, following all the rules in California. So it was our, it was just a lot. And we came here and we were just like so excited to get out after that two weeks. Um, but after a while, so what happens, like, you know, I was, I'm retired at, at the time, I was 42 and I was like, you know, this is great. I'm on vacation. But that started to wear off and then I, you know, I had this yoga, um. Information, but it was older information now at this point, 'cause it's now it's like, know, two years had passed and um, you know, but it's a small island. Very similar to like living in a small town. If anybody lives in a small town or grew up in a small town. I also did in Massachusetts is where I originally from. And so you can understand how a small town is and sometimes opportunities come up. a small town that you wouldn't get in a city, for instance. So I would've never gotten the opportunity that I got if I was still in la. But I was able to take over the yoga, it's a small yoga program at this local gym, so I'm the only person who teaches anything there. And so I do two days a week and, um, I went in for the interview. They didn't even have me try out or anything. They were just like, you're hired. And I had never taught a class in my life at this point, by the way, online or any other way. And I had no mentor. My only, uh, my only training was having done yoga since I was 19. Um, but not. Constantly, like I would have breaks and, you know, kind of come and go, uh,'cause of my work life and everything. But, um, so I just sort of had to wing it. And so I did. And um, I came into, uh, a group of, there's about six. To eight people that come every single class. And they were already coming for the previous teacher. so I was really lucky in that way. Um, and I still teach now. It's been, it'll be two years in November, so that's when I, I've only been teaching for a year and a half now. Um, so that's that part. And then we can get into the other stuff. But there's my kind of long-winded answer. I love it. So what I know about you is that you have these unique platform and classroom situations. So one, you've got this small gym with a hardcore group of regulars, these six to eight folks who come twice a week. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, And then you also teach at a resort, which is the exact opposite end of the spectrum where you are preparing to teach a class to people. You'll probably only spend that one hour with, is that right? exactly. And I started doing that about. Maybe nine or nine months to a year ago, I can't remember exactly. Um, I started subbing. So now I have a couple days a week that I do always at certain hotels. So it's, um, it's a local woman who does this program where she calls it yoga on the beach. And um, there's different times. And so I do a lot of subbing for her. I have a few lo regular ones, but people come and go on the island a lot. You know, yoga teachers especially, we kind of. Because we can. Um, so I'm kind of her go-to person, so I end up doing that a lot. And it's a very different thing to teach to people like that. Sometimes I'll see the same person twice or a couple times.'cause if I'm subbing, you know, every day they'll come every day.
One of them is at 7:00 AM one of them is at eight 30 and one's at 10 30. And sometimes I do all of them in a day. So that's kind of fun. But yeah, it's super different. Um, a lot of. Them have never done yoga before. You'll have husbands who show up who just are there because they're like, oh, I'll come with you 'cause you're gonna come with me fishing later, or something like that. I, and then sometimes I'll have children. So I have a, um, kind of, um, and you have helped me with this a lot with your program is kind of get your signature, you know. Um, all Star class and then I just kind of modify it a little bit depending on what I see in front of me or what I feel like doing that day. So, but yeah, it's a very, very different thing. I love it. I do online library, which again is another thing. So yeah, I kind of have kind of all over the place. get to online because like I said, you have these three really uniquely different platforms. So comparing the gym class with regulars to the resort class, it's just so interesting. You know, from being in my world, I say most teachers either under plan or overplan, and you have an opportunity to do. Either because you have both ends of the spectrum. So how do you approach planning your classes for your regulars at the gym versus operating on this kind of greatest hits recipe that you vary for the people in front of you at the resort or on the beach? So the resort class I, I, um. I had a friend of mine help me figure it out because I was like, I, you can't, I can't go and teach. And sometimes she'll let me know the day before, the night before, and I have other things going on too. I have other, um, online businesses, so I, I can't just sit there and plan, plan, plan for every little thing. And because it's a different person every time, or even if you see them every day for a couple days, they don't mind if it's kind of similar. So I came up with just a fun, well-rounded class that was very accessible. And so I just, um, and because I'm kind of a newer teacher, especially when I first started, I had it all written in my phone, in my notes app, and I had it really bold.'cause I can't, I need glasses and I can't wear glasses when I'm teaching, obviously. So I have this really bold and I would just kind of look at it and I started with just, you know, just watching my phone. Or I would have a, I have notebooks too sometimes, so I would write it, write it in there, um, and then after teaching it a couple times, I just, just don't need to look at it anymore. So. To me as a new teacher, that was a huge milestone. And so teaching the same class basically, um, constantly like that, which I didn't feel like I could do at the gym, even though now I, I actually do that now, but that's a, a different thing 'cause I at first thought, oh, I gotta do, it's something completely different every time. Um, but this gave me the opportunity not to do that, and I have found that it has made my memory for, you know, class structure and everything so much better. I've learned more from, I think that than anything else I've learned is just that keeping that same, that same class over and over again. And now I change it up. Now I don't have to look at my notes. So that's what I do for that. So it was just that one initial, um, getting over, trying to change everything and make it different every time. And just also realizing, um, and it's morphed over the months because I, I see them and I am, When I'm not practicing with them as much as I used to.'cause I used to feel like I had to because I couldn't remember what I was doing unless I was, but now that I'm doing the same one every time, I can just kind of do it while walking around. And now I'm looking at them more and I'm seeing, oh, you know what? Um, they can't. This is not an easy move, let's move it to this. So I've modified things and I've come up with like my own version of Sun salutations, all kinds of things that. So it's just like, uh, kind of responding to it, but just all, I think my advice for anybody who would be maybe in that situation or who's newer is, you know. Really do take the advice of finding that one class, whatever it is, and it can be anything, whatever, as long as you like it and it's safely sequenced and you have it all down because you're gonna get better at those cues, you're gonna find other things in there and you'll just, it. It's one of those things that you learn so much more doing. Um, so that was hugely helpful for me Yeah. What I hear all the time is people think it needs to be different every time, and it doesn't. And I love how you have really gone all in on having this template that you can vary, but the repetition is really great for you and for the students. And the other thing I hear from teachers a lot is they feel like A, they feel like it needs to be new and different every time, but B, they feel like they want to be demoing less and have eyes on their students more, but they feel stuck. And I love how you discovered that the repetition was the key to freeing up your energy to do less demo and more eyes on your students. And then that makes you more responsive. And as a consequence, the whole experience is better for everyone. Exactly, and that's the way my cueing started getting better and I started becoming more, you know, just involved and more, I feeling more like a teacher than an instructor, if you know what I mean. Ah, that's beautiful. a. Yeah. and I was very resistant to the idea of that beforehand.'cause I had heard it from a lot of people and I was like, I can't do that because I see the same people and blah blah. So it's changed a lot. So the classes at the gym, I do them differently 'cause these people are practicing. I. You know, every week. And so that's a whole different thing, but I don't change it up as much as I used to. And I, um, something else I got from your program is, is these little, I call 'em vignettes, but you know, little, like, this is like my little chair vignette and I have like three or four different ones and I just call it chair one, chair two, you know, and I know the flow. So when I'm making the class, I'm just like kind of taking this puzzle piece, putting it here, and then it comes together. And, you know, it used to take me. An entire day, it's, I can put it together in 30 minutes to an hour and practice it enough and, and because I have a set structure that I've gotten in my mind from resort classes, kind of knowing like how I'm gonna structure it. It's really easy to remember now, so I don't even have to look at my notes. And I was a person who was, I had these little notebooks and I have, you know, three or four of 'em full and I would print it and then like copy and paste'cause I have terrible handwriting. So it was so much time consuming for me. I mean, I was like pasting and, and now it's something I don't have to worry about so much, which is great. I love it. You, you know, I love a food metaphor and it really is learning the, like the recipe templates and then being able to vary the recipe for an omelet or, you know, a pasta dish with olive oil and vegetables or whatever, you know, whatever the template is. Once you learn that, you don't need to be eyes on the cookbook anymore, and you can start to even eyeball the ingredients. And you don't need to even measure. At some point, you can just tell because you have enough experience with that recipe. I love the modularity, and I loved your analogy of like putting the puzzle pieces in place, and I love the word vignette. Yay. Yeah. Oh yeah, I don't know why I just kind of, that's my little name, but yeah. And I, I will say, I think to a person who's a new teacher, um, can't, I don't know if you have to, but for me, I had to go through all of this sort of complicated process. I. First to get to the, you know, the ease, the ease that I have now. And I'm barely in the ease, by the way. Like I just was talking to my husband last night. I'm like, I'm finally at this point where I'm, I'm feeling really like. Comfortable and I'm not struggling as much. And it's been, you know, like, oh, I'm not even quite two years yet. But, so I would say give yourself the grace of just understanding that you're, you might go through a messy period of time and it's gonna look different for everybody depending on whatever you're doing. Um, but at some point it's just, you're gonna have all these little clicks that are gonna happen and each click is gonna be like, oh, and it's gonna be like a little breath out of relief. And then it just keeps getting easier and you keep refining. And I would imagine that. It's probably just gonna keep going down that line, Excellent. So at the other end of the spectrum, you've got these, uh, live in-person classes that rely a lot on repetition, but you also have an extensive online library. And I think part of why we all have it in our heads that every class ought to be new and different is because we did get exposed to online content so much during the lockdown phase of the pandemic. Where it would be silly, you wouldn't record the same sequence over and over or sequence with minor variations over and over for an on demand library of classes. So tell us a little bit about your library, how you devised it, how it's going, and how you think to sequence for that. So where it is now and where I'm gonna, I'm actually in the process of kind of moving it a little bit, but I, um. I'm doing is when I, so I do have, um, a version or two of my resort yoga as I call it on there, um, because it is always a little different and it's a little bit more relaxed yoga. So I kind of call it like, uh, you know, yoga one, I call it Sacred Souls. So it's Sacred Souls One, and then My Sacred Souls Two is um, whatever I have going on. So I'll usually have a theme for about two weeks or so, maybe even longer, where it's like take a sequence and then I kind of. Change it a little bit. And, um, so for now I'm just doing the one master sequence, the first one that's going in the library. But I've decided that I'm probably going to, um, take little, you know, I might take one master sequence and have, record each different one of them so that it's like a little package so that when people come in and they think, well, what am I gonna work on these next? This next month I can say, well, here's this package and I'll have, each one will be its own little month of packages where have a theme. So I'm probably gonna be presenting it that way online eventually. But right now I just, I just picked the one. So I'm only adding one class, you know, a week or every two weeks at this point. That's good. That's a sustainable workflow too. It's easy to get in overwhelm mode with a huge amount of content, and there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes when you're generating video content, including like all the tech stuff, needing the storage space. And then also designing the class and doing your hair and getting on camera takes a whole lot of energy too. So it's, it's a major project. How did you find your way to it? Like what was the initial vision and how did you learn to build the library? I have a health coaching business and so, um, I started doing these classes for the people in my group. And so right now that's what I'm using it for. Um, eventually when I get kind of what I consider like a more extensive library, I'll be selling the membership. But right now it's semi included in the groups. Coaching that I do. so that's kind of just how it started. I was like, well, I might as well just throw this in there because they all were saying, you know, you teach yoga. I wanna see what you do. And, um, so I'll weave in, um, intentions in them sometimes that we'll talk about health stuff. So I talk about that. So I kind of weave it all in. So that's kind of how it started. And then, um, and I use, um, I use a website called, um, offering Tree. It was, it's new and it was made for yoga studios, but it works really well, especially for somebody like me who I'm like kind of techie. Like I, I know how to use tech, but I'm not really deep into it and I could figure it out and make this really nice website and it has all the information on there. And I can also house my courses on there for now. I think eventually you'll. I'll probably, you know, grow out of that, the course part eventually, hopefully, if everything works out. But it's a really good start. And so for me, that's what I started doing and it was, um. The online thing. What I'm doing with that is, um, I'm not pushing too much with it. I'm just letting it kind of develop as it goes and, um, once I kind of get, it's just like almost an experiment right now. Like, see how this goes. Um, and I'm kind of morphing it over time, but I'm finally, it's kind of rounding out as I figure it out. But yeah, that website, if you're new and you're looking to start website is, I really recommend it.'cause I was using, I think I bounced from like a couple different ones and this one to me was just the easiest one to figure out Offering tree and what a great place to send your resort guests if they, if they love the class and are chatting with you after and want to stay connected. Little way to take vacation with them. I mean, they must be really receptive, even if it's their first yoga class, to be doing yoga in such a gorgeous setting with such a skilled teacher. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, and I do teach, um, with this type of background in my, I have a lanai out there, and so I do kind of have that thing and exactly one of the reasons I forgot about that, one of the reasons I started recording. Was actually because a lot of people would come up to me after class and say like, you have anything online? And I'm not an Instagram person or even much of a Facebook person, person outside of my groups. Like I have it, but I just, I'm so bad at posting. But, so now I send them to the website. So that's really nice. And then that way, yeah, they can kind of tap into, um, you know, the yoga, the, the quiet energy.'cause they can see all the plants behind me and everything. So yeah, it's really fun. Gorgeous. about that. Excellent. So you are a student in my Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing Mentorship Membership. Because that's a mouthful, I just call it MMM, three M's.'cause it's delicious and it is kind of cooking themed. I already tried to squeeze a, uh, recipe and cooking metaphor in here. Will you share with our listeners a little bit about what your experience has been like in the program? Yeah. Um, I have had, it's been really helpful with me, um, all these little pieces of it. So sometimes I'll use just, um, I, I usually will use parts of your sequences that you share with us, and I'll take like little ideas or I kind of modify them to make my own. Um, and I like that it's not a traditional type of class. That you're teaching these things. They're very, I guess more, um, yoga for athletes type of vibe. and it's things I have, I would never have thought of and sequences that, um, a lot of them, you're not on the ground.'cause when I'm doing the resort yoga, are on towels on the grass. Mm-hmm. So I don't like, and, and the way that it is, um, I don't like having people on their hands and knees too much. Um, it's just better to do. So. I love the options that you have and the creativity of it. So it's been really helpful, um, with that. And it's just really nice to have these little vignettes that I can. Put into my own library and then I'm getting ideas from the other people that are in there. They're sharing things, you know, the different, uh, just podcast resources. There's just a lot of resources in there. So I'll always kind of go in and check in if I'm feeling a little uninspired. It's just a great place to go in and kind of see like, okay, what should I, what should my theme be today? Or, you know, I need to do that. Balance Trio, I think you have one called Sugar Plum Fairy, which I love. I use that one a lot. I, love those. it's very much like looking at a cookbook when you're like, Ugh. You know, you could be a chef, but you're still like, oh, what am I, what am I gonna make for dinner? And just having a cookbook to get down off the shelf and flip through can usually remind you of things that you already knew that you wanted to do. You just had forgotten that you knew. Exactly, and it's nice 'cause I think people could use it in different way. I do use it that way. Sometimes you go in and you ha you just want to create, you know, use what's there. And then sometimes it's really great to have that. Um, I. In inspiration'cause Yeah, you get it. You trying to just, you get kind of stuck in your own head sometimes. And, and I also have to say for the, for the gym classes, it's easy to kind of get, get stuck into like doing kind of the same things a lot or you kind of forget themes and stuff. So it's really nice to go in and have not only your input, but everybody else's input on different, their takes on things and somebody else's take on, um. You know, a little vignette that you share or something, and then it's like, oh yeah. So it's nice to have sort of, um, a meeting of the minds, so to speak. And I love that you can kind of go in and, you know, there's the live component, but you can also, if you're somebody who just kind of likes to, you know, lurk so to speak. And I'm kind of a more of a lurker in a lot of ways. So I just go in and, you know, you don't have to really interact with anybody for real if you don't want to, but you can get all that information with just being passive, which is nice too. Thanks for saying that because I think sometimes people see the live calls and maybe they live on an island out in the Pacific and the time isn't perfect for them. It's a time when they're teaching, or they're in Europe and they teach in the evenings, but the live calls are all recorded and you can get huge value out of the program, I think without ever being on a call live at all. It's really, um, a very full pantry inside of Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing where people can come in and grab a few things or they can get a prefab, you know, like meal, ready to eat almost experience. Or they can really like start cooking from scratch if that's what the vibe is. I tried to make a track for minimalists and a track for maximalist as well. L Yeah, and I kind of swing between both of them because I'll, sometimes I'm just like, and it's spend a couple hours in there and, and then sometimes I'm like, let me just do a quick check-in and see yeah. on. So I think it's great and I think it would be really helpful. Um, it's interesting the time that I came into it because I was just, I think on the cusp of um, being a totally beginner teacher and then now moving into like, I don't know, the sort of range of like, okay, I, I kind of know what I'm doing now, a teacher and it, it's seen me through those two phases and they're, it's helpful for, um, both parts, like both phases of where my brain was, you know, that very beginning, giving me the structure and then now, um, more giving me inspiration and, you know, community 'cause. You know, I'm on an island, literally, but sometimes it can feel if, as a yoga teacher, if you're not in the yoga world, say you're a part-time teacher or you have another job, or you, you know, you're, you're whatever. It's just you're not in the yoga world, you don't have somebody to talk to about your sequences. You don't have a friend to bounce things off of. I'm that person, like literally and figuratively. So it's nice to have that in there too, just to have some discussion going on to keep your brain moving. Absolutely, yes. It can be isolating to be a yoga teacher if you are on an island or in a small town, or not tapped into a bigger Sangha yoga community. Um, and it's. It's, that's sad because our students can't give us the kind of feedback we can give each other. So we have to create a community online where we can, um, can workshop our recipes. Like a chef would like you, a diner isn't gonna be able to give you the same feedback as another chef would. Mm-hmm. Exactly. Yeah. And I think that's really valuable and, and helpful. And I, being somebody, like I said, where I took my first 200 hour, you know, literally in the COVID bubble and there was no actual contact with anybody. It was just, um, recorded video. Um, and so I've never had live instruction even to this day. Uh, everything I've done has been online, so, but the program feels a little bit more alive because there is a live component and it's dynamic, meaning you're always adding something, you know, it's not just some steady thing that's just there. And, and I will say you e when I email you, you get right back to me like right away. So it's real. I feel like it's a very interactive experience and however, and you can make it as interactive as you want it to be, I am so glad. I'm so glad to have you in there. Now, I think if anybody's watching this video, they're gonna want to come and take a class with you live on Kauai, but if they can't connect with you, live on Kauai, how can they find you? Um, I have, well, my website would be the easiest, um, because like I said, I'm not on Instagram a whole lot and it's just nyishayogakauai.com and, um, I can spell it out, or it can be probably in the show I'll put it in the nyishayogakauai.com great, awesome! Nyisha. What a treat to talk to you. I think we've given folks a lot of food for thought. What would I do if I were teaching just these one-off classes? What would I do if I had a lot of regulars? What would I do if I were recording videos like three? Wonderful. Uh, trains of thought for teachers at every level, and thank you especially for emphasizing the importance of repetition and building your confidence when you're in that like kinda wobbly-legged new teacher, like, like foal phase, like getting your legs underneath you is a consequence of not being afraid to repeat yourself. That's how you really grow. I, I agree. It's advice that you hear a lot, but you, and you resist it. But when I finally did it, I was like, okay, this actually makes a lot of sense. It's a huge one. Awesome. Thank you so much for being here. Yes. Thank you so much for having me. Nyisha and I would love to have you join us inside Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing my mentorship membership program. Whether you are more of a lurker, as Nyisha purports to be or want to engage fully on the live calls, there is lots there to help you level up your teaching, really step into your confidence, and not be afraid of repeating yourself because you'll repeat with purpose and then you'll learn ways to vary with intention. To learn more about, MMM, click the link in the show notes or come to sagerountree.com/mentorship. I'd also love to have you join the Zone. It's my free community for yoga teachers. We could consider it a JV version of the mentorship membership as I am quite active in supportive in the free space as well. You can join that for free from the link in the show notes or come to comfortzoneyoga.com. I am Sage Rountree. This is Yoga Teacher Confidential. Thank you so much for your time and attention. I'll see you next time.