![]() ![]() If you’re an over achieving A type personality, you won’t be able to resist spending lots of time creating a brand new lesson plan each week. You probably did a 200 hour yoga course while juggling a job and raising a couple of kids. Most yoga teachers are motivated, high achievers. How often you change your lesson plan will depend on your training and your personality type. My formula is: “o ne lesson plan every 6 weeks“.īut, you may opt for a different formula due to your personality and training. Within a year of teaching I discovered my students actually preferred sticking with “ one lesson plan over 6 weeks“. When I first started out teaching, I used to burn the midnight oil to write a brand new lesson plan each week. Some students would change up the lesson plan on a weekly basis, but they were generally either full time teachers or retired (and had amble extra time). The BWY lesson planning formula was to create a lesson plan and use it for 6 weeks, and repeat that process. And we spent a lot of time on “sequencing” and “lesson planning”. I’ve spoken to many yoga teachers over the years and I’ve yet to come across one yoga teacher who took the course who wasn’t surprised by how hard the training was. It was a tough 200 hour, 2 year training course that tested and pushed every trainee teacher. ![]() I trained with the British Wheel Of Yoga (governing body of yoga in the UK). Yoga Alliance | Change up lesson plan each week (or every 6 weeks) How you go about sequencing a yoga class will very much depend on which organisation trained you.īritish Wheel Of Yoga | Change up lesson plan each week (or every 6 weeks) There are over 100,000 of us (yoga teachers) worldwide and each one of us has our own unique way of a teaching a yoga class. The only way to stop the dreaded inner voice recorder from replaying the same old questions is to understand in your bones that there is no perfect yoga class. “How long should I let the students spend in each pose?” “What modifications can I give beginners (or students with injuries) in this pose?” “What can I give my advanced students to do during this pose?” “Should I add breathing exercises at the beginning, middle or end of a class?” “Would I scare some students away if I added pranayama and when in my class is the best time to add pranayama?” “Would I scare some students away if I added some partner yoga and when in my class is the best time to add partner yoga?” “Would I scare some students away if I added a mudra or chant and when in my class is the best time to add mudras or chants?” “Is it best to keep the same sequence every week like in a Bikram or Baptiste yoga class?” “Should I change the sequence from last week in case my students get bored?” If someone invented an inner voice recorder and placed it inside the brain of a yoga teacher, you’d probably hear a conversation like this going on… Even experienced yoga teachers struggle with the question: “W hat comes next?” So, my intention for this post is to reveal the steps I took when coming up with my yoga sequence formula.ĭon’t get distracted by your inner voice. Yoga sequencing is a dark art for most yoga teachers. 10 Steps To Uncover Your Yoga Sequencing Formula ![]()
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