10 Things To Practice for Staying Alive As a Teacher: 

1. Wake up early. Discipline = Freedom

2. Create a beautiful and personal altar where you practice. Ritual is habit made holy.

3. Run to your mat. Roll out your mat and roll out your true self. 

4. Commit to a certain amount of time and stay with it, this creates confidence. 

5. Bring your friends, Mick Jagger and Mary Oliver: music and poetry. 

6. Remember that you are already a yogi, all that is required is a sense of adventure. 

7. Turn off your iPhone. 

8. Notice the obstacles, call them out and blow past them.

9. Remember: You are the student and you are the teacher. 

10. "Teach what you practice, practice what you teach." —Krshnamacharya

Be inspired by all your teachers, but do you!