Weekend With a Master Teacher.

The Lotus Pond Center for Yoga and Health

After a strong morning asana practice and lunch at The Lotus Pond, we sat down in front of Karin Stephan, an arc of students along the floor. Blue eyes shining with the secrets of the world, she offered us her views on teaching. How to choreograph a class. How to see people. How to stay true. Authentic.

As always, her teaching advice mingled and blended with the current of life.

“Remember, you don’t have to know everything right now,” she said. “If you go to China, and you know five words, and the person you are with knows one…who is the teacher?” 

And she pauses to rest her eyes on each of us.