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Avoid These Common Phrases! Improve Your Yoga Teaching Experience

Are your yoga cues unintentionally distracting your students? Learn how to avoid using phrases that center yourself instead of your students.

This will help you enhance your professionalism and create a student-directed environment.

Want more advice like this? Check out The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook! It’s available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.

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Listen: Yoga for Runners on Another Mother Runner Podcast

It’s always a great time when I chat with my friends at the Another Mother Runner podcast!

In this brand-new episode, we discuss yoga for runners. Listen to hear:

why I hated my first experiences with yogathe value of letting go of “doing-and-action” modehow the athletic mindset tempers runners’ approach to yogahow your practice should change during a training cyclefour poses for runners to do daily

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Plan a Year of Classes in Five Weeks: Designing Your Yoga Playbook

If you want to make class planning easy, fun, quick, and painless (because why wouldn’t you?), please join me next week as we begin Designing Your Yoga Playbook. This live online workshop is hosted by The Thread Yoga Collective.

Below, I answer some frequently asked questions about the course.

When do we meet?

Five Tuesdays in a row, June 4–July 2, 2:00–3:15 p.m. EDT

What should I do between now and then?

First, and most critically, sign up ASAP!

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Then, I suggest you read The Art of Yoga Sequencing, as the workshop series is based on the book. But if you don’t have time to read before we start, no worries, I’ll bring you up to speed in session one.

Where do we meet?

Live online—which means you can join from anywhere you are! I’ll be leading from at least three discrete locations over these five weeks.

What if I can’t make one or all of the live sessions?

You’ll get access to the recorded sessions and a workspace with the homework and resources, so you can catch up on your own time.

How much homework is there?

That’s up to you! If you can dedicate a second 75 minutes per week to homework, I am 100 percent sure you’ll have a robust playbook in a total of 10 hours of your time. Think of all the energy you’ll save by getting all of your sequences—and your peers’—in one place! You’ll be able to plan fresh, balanced classes in only a few minutes a week.

We will also have time for dedicated work sessions during our weekly meetings, so you will get the ball rolling on each week’s exercises with me there live to coach you.

Is there any movement involved?

Yes! Our live meetings will involve lecture, discussion, some heads-down time to start on the work, and Q&A. We may hop out of our chairs to illustrate points with a little movement along the way, but if you’re not dressed for movement, it’ll be fully optional.

I’ll share some example sequences with you in our shared workspace. That means that outside of the class time, you can follow along with guided movement classes and feel these concepts somatically, as well as thinking about them intellectually.

I teach [fill-in-the-blank] style yoga, is this for me?

It decidedly is, yes! This modular approach to sequencing applies to all styles of yoga from gentle to sweaty flow. It even applies to other movement modalities, like Pilates and dance.

I actually don’t teach yoga yet/am in YTT, is this for me?

Totally, we’d love to have you. If you are joining to work on sequencing your own home practice, you’ll find tons of ideas and a supportive group of teachers to bounce your questions off of.

Are there CEUs?

Yes, indeed, you’ll get 15 Yoga Alliance CEUs.

We start next Tuesday, so it’s time to sign up right now!

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Close the Thesaurus: Mastering the Art of Powerful Yet Simple Language

Are you using too many five-dollar words in your yoga classes? Discover the impact of using evocative words sparingly and learn how to replace them with more accessible language.

Want more advice like this? Check out The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook! It’s available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.

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Listen: J Brown Yoga Talks Podcast

Having two new books publish in the course of seven days this spring was . . . exciting. Slightly exhausting. Intellectually stimulating, for sure, especially when I had the opportunity to talk about both books in the same conversation.

That has happened a few times, but most recently in a fantastic discussion with J Brown, the excellent host of the J Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

And you can hear it right here!

In this wide-ranging conversation, we cover:

my name storymy yoga backgroundhow exercise physiology applies to yoga asanapain, intensity, and how both yoga and sports inform your experiencethe three best things you can do to improve your recoverythe one thing that won’t move the needlewhat it’s like running a yoga studio on this side of 2020

I know you’ll enjoy the whole conversation, especially the way we connect these seemingly disparate threads. I was struck by how much we covered when I was choosing the categories to mark as I drafted this blog post.

Give it a listen and let me know what you think!

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Should Yoga Teachers Use Sanskrit? Pros and Cons Explained

Discover the benefits and drawbacks of incorporating Sanskrit in your yoga classes. Learn how it can connect your practice to its roots, but also explore potential issues of cultural appropriation and pronunciation variations.

Want more advice like this? Check out The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook! It’s available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.

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How Thinking about Fashion Plates Helps You Plan Your Yoga Class

Have you ever opened your drawers—or your closet—preparing to get dressed, then decide you need to get out your spinning wheel and your loom and begin by carding wool?

Or have you started to prepare a meal by heading out to the fields to thresh wheat or pick corn and head to the miller to grind it?

Gosh, I hope not! In each of these situations you’re making things way harder than they need to be!

Instead, when you’re getting dressed, you choose a top, some pants, shoes and maybe socks.

And when you’re baking, you reach for the bag of flour, or even the Bisquick.

Let’s think about using these models to guide how you plan your yoga class.

Thinking about segments of your class in chunks will let you quickly plan a balanced sequence. Instead of coming up with sequences from scratch, you’ll choose from a closet full of separates, as it were. That is, you’re looking at the chunks you’ve already assembled and mixing and matching from there.

In this way, creating your class lesson plan is a lot like playing with this toy from my childhood: Fashion Plates!

You have the outlines of each sequence, and you can choose the color and texture you want as you go.

In yoga, we could use the terms kriya and krama to describe this method of building a class.

First, we design the chunks—the kriyas. Then we apply sequential stages (vinyasa krama) to dress them up.

And these stages are the key to leading all-levels or mixed-levels yoga classes. They let students choose the right expression of each pose.

I cover this approach in depth in my latest book, The Art of Yoga Sequencing. Pick it up wherever books are sold.

As I say in the book,

Once you start to think in chunks—in kriya—planning your class gets a lot easier. You operate from a higher level, seeing the whole forest, not just the individual trees. No longer do you need to think granularly: “I’ll do table pose for five breaths, cat-cow for ten breaths, child’s pose for five breaths, lateral child’s pose to the right for ten breaths, child’s pose for five breaths, lateral child’s pose to the left for ten breaths, table pose for three breaths, threading the needle to the right for five breaths, table pose for three breaths, threading the needle to the left for five breaths, table pose for three breaths, and child’s pose for five breaths.” Instead, you think, “I’ll start with Six Moves of the Spine, Prone, Child’s Pose.”

You’ll also develop a sense for what chunks go together, based on the context. Just like you’ll reach for certain wardrobe items more than others, and like you’ll vary your outfits depending on the weather, you’ll have go-to sequences you practice and teach more often than others. Great! This is the consistent frame for your practice and your teaching. Your students will return expecting that framework to carry through each class. On top of this base of consistency, you can layer on variety depending on who is in the room, where their energies are, even what the season is.

This June and July, I’ll be leading a five-week workshop series designed to fill your closet—that is, to give you everything you need to have a full playbook of chunks and sequences to can pick and choose from. Class planning will be a breeze when you have your playbook built!

It all happens live online, hosted by The Thread Yoga Collective.

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I’d love to see you in the workshop.

And in my next posts, I’ll talk you through how this model helps you include almost everyone in class. Plus: how you can still help the people that your sequence doesn’t perfectly suit.

Meanwhile, want an example of a class plan that follows this very format—and works well for all levels? Pop your email in this form and I’ll send it right over:

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Silence Is Golden: The Power of Saying Less in Yoga Teaching

Discover the transformative impact of silence in yoga teaching. Learn why experienced teachers prioritize moments of quiet, allowing students to delve into their inner experience. Embrace stillness and create a space for mindfulness.

Find out how to strike the balance between guidance and silence for optimal clarity and connection.

Want more advice like this? Check out The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook! It’s available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.

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Listen: Abundant Yoga Teacher Podcast

I had an absolutely wonderful time chatting with Amy McDonald, the fun, frank host of the great Abundant Yoga Teacher Podcast.

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We discussed:

my yoga origin storyhow to say less in class while helping your students find their own pathways to trick your students into arriving at the right shape for themthe importance of orienting your mats differently from time to time. . . and so much more!

It was a super-fun conversation, and I know you’ll hear what a good rapport we have when you listen—and you’ll then subscribe to this fantastic podcast resource for yoga teachers!

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Mastering Yoga Communication: Effective Grammar Tips for Yoga Teachers

Discover essential grammar techniques to communicate clearly and connect with your students on a deeper level. Learn the importance of using the second person singular—and what that sounds like.

This will help you lead class using complete sentences, so every student feels like you’re talking directly to them.

Want more advice like this? Check out The Professional Yoga Teacher’s Handbook! It’s available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.

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