First and foremost, integration. My offerings are rooted in deep and broad  knowledge developed from over 30 years of practice in multiple styles, plus study of diverse yoga traditions and philosophies along with anatomy, kinesiology, neuroscience, psychology, and other fields that relate to teaching yoga, including teaching and working in leadership positions in K-12 through the university level. I'm also still devoted a student of everything I practice and teach. This allow me to teach teachers in ways that seamlessly draws from this background, while in most trainings there's an anatomy expert, a philosophy expert, and experienced teacher, but all too often their knowlegdge is in silos.

I do my best to keep my prices low, and last raised my prices in 2015. Most YTTs are overpriced, partly because they subsidize yoga studios. They also pay to bring in expertise they lack in-house. And frankly, some charge a lot because they can. I pretty much subscribe to an ethic that says, "to each according to their needs, from each according to their abilities." That's also why I offer needs-based scholarships and easy payment plans.

Greater clarity, congruence and creativity from being part of a community of other teachers who openly share their ideas, fears, questions, inspirations and joys from being on the teaching path. Experienced (and new) teachers also get to fill the little and not-so-little gaps in the knowledge and skills in every aspect of teaching – not just asana, pranayama and meditation, but in everything involved in teaching and living as a teacher.

Yoga Inside Foundation was a non-profit organization I started in 1997, initially to bring yoga into L.A. County youth prisons (19 of them) and the L.A. communities where I was then working at intersection of education and juvenile justice. We soon expanded into shelters, treatment center, schools and other settings – over 300 of them – across North America. Along the way we helped get lots of other "karma yoga" programs started, including Off the Mat's first service (at Children of the Night), The Art of Yoga Project, and others. Yoga Inside is where really learned I had a lot more to learn. It was incredibly humbling. It's also where I first started training other teachers. Yoga Journal gave us their 1st Annual Karma Yoga Award in 2000. In 2006, we closed our doors and donated our assets to other non-profits doing similar work.