Order and Sequence: What to Teach and when to Teach it.

An 8 week workshop for teachers.

What is more important? Getting your hand to the floor in Parsva Konasana or turning the trunk upwards and establishing the straight line from the pouter edge of the back foot up to the the fingers of the upper arm? Check out these two pictures and let me know what you think.

Side Angle Pose, top side of the body aligned

Teaching beginners is often the most challenging group of students to teach, but they can often be the most rewarding. Unfortunately, most people don't want to be seen as beginners, so they often pop into more intermediate classes.

As a teacher you have to try to bring the beginners along without them getting hurt while challenging your more experienced students. What do you teach and how and when do you teach it?

What this course will teach you is to look at your students and really see them. Beginning and intermediate students alike have postural issues that we can address through yoga. This course will teach you to recognize that how your students habitually stand and move will tell you a lot about what they need to work on.

For example:
Gomukhasana arms with and without a belt.

This is a challenging arm position for most people.

Do you teach this posture? Do you break down the actions of each arm separately for your students? Doing this arm position is more than just swinging your arms behind you and trying to catch on. This arm position is foundational for many more advanced poses.

The top arm stretch helps with any pose where the arms are overhead and bent: such as Headstand, Forearm Balance and a Back Bend called Dwi Pada.

The bottom arm stretch helps with poses where the arms are behind the back: such as Bridge and Shoulderstand.

This 8 week course will help you learn to become a better teacher. It will help you to look at your students and to see where their restrictions are. But more importantly it will show you what basic skills your students need to learn to be able to make progress in their practice safely and intelligently. The skills you learn will help you know how to teach your students to understand the basic poses so they can make progress in their practice.

8 Thursdays from 12:00 to 3:00 pm
October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 19, December 3, 10, 17
The information in this course is cumulative, however, it is possible for experienced teachers to take individual classes. Contact me for pricing.

What you will learn:

Move from the Four Corners of the Body and Keep the Spine in Mind
10/22 - The Shoulder Girdle and the Five Positions of the Arms: Abduction and Adduction
10/29 - The Shoulder Girdle and the Five Positions of the Arms: Flexion and Extension
11/5 - Folding Forward – Hinging at the Hips
11/12 - The Entwining Muscular Action of the Legs
11/19 - The Trunk – Rotational Challenges
12/3 - Opening the Hips – Extension
12/10 - Opening the Hips – Abduction and External Rotation
12/17 - Core Strength – Teaching Inversions to Develop the Core

$400* if registered and paid by October 15th. $480 after the 15th.
(This module will be the first part of my 300 hour YTT)
(*Times are tough and if finances are a concern but you are interested in this program, please reach out.)
This course counts for 24 CEU's for Yoga Alliance.

Order and Sequence: What to Teach and when to Teach it.