Knowing the exercise and saying it out loud are two different skills.

You finished your module. You can do the work. And the first time you pictured actually teaching it, the same thought showed up: what if I open my mouth and it all comes out as word soup?

The first class I taught, I talked too much. I moved people too slowly, and too little. I couldn’t keep count. Underneath the whole thing ran one worry: they’re going to know I have no idea what I’m doing.

Here’s what took me years to understand. The module teaches you the exercises. The words are a separate skill, and almost every teacher is still shaky on them, even the ones who can already run a full class. Cues are learned, the same way choreography is. There are nine ways to say the same thing, and you keep the one they feel in their body.

You’re allowed to feel not-ready and start teaching anyway. That feeling fades the first time you teach a shaky class and live through it.

For the teacher who’s going to “practice on my own for a while.”

I get it. I waited a year to start. It took me that long to build up the courage. If that’s your plan, good — keep it. This course makes that practice count, so when you finally open your mouth, the words are already there.

Knowing the exercise and saying it out loud are two different skills.

You finished your module. You can do the work. And the first time you pictured actually teaching it, the same thought showed up: what if I open my mouth and it all comes out as word soup?

The first class I taught, I talked too much. I moved people too slowly, and too little. I couldn’t keep count. Underneath the whole thing ran one worry: they’re going to know I have no idea what I’m doing.

Here’s what took me years to understand. The module teaches you the exercises. The words are a separate skill, and almost every teacher is still shaky on them, even the ones who can already run a full class. Cues are learned, the same way choreography is. There are nine ways to say the same thing, and you keep the one they feel in their body.

You’re allowed to feel not-ready and start teaching anyway. That feeling fades the first time you teach a shaky class and live through it.

For the teacher who’s going to “practice on my own for a while.”

I get it. I waited a year to start. It took me that long to build up the courage. If that’s your plan, good — keep it. This course makes that practice count, so when you finally open your mouth, the words are already there.

Knowing the exercise and saying it out loud are two different skills.

You finished your module. You can do the work. And the first time you pictured actually teaching it, the same thought showed up: what if I open my mouth and it all comes out as word soup?

The first class I taught, I talked too much. I moved people too slowly, and too little. I couldn’t keep count. Underneath the whole thing ran one worry: they’re going to know I have no idea what I’m doing.

Here’s what took me years to understand. The module teaches you the exercises. The words are a separate skill, and almost every teacher is still shaky on them, even the ones who can already run a full class. Cues are learned, the same way choreography is. There are nine ways to say the same thing, and you keep the one they feel in their body.

You’re allowed to feel not-ready and start teaching anyway. That feeling fades the first time you teach a shaky class and live through it.

For the teacher who’s going to “practice on my own for a while.”

I get it. I waited a year to start. It took me that long to build up the courage. If that’s your plan, good — keep it. This course makes that practice count, so when you finally open your mouth, the words are already there.