5 Common Yoga Cues—Refined, Clearer, More Effective Ways to Communicate

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we dive deep into 5 of the most common yoga cues—offering clearer, more effective alternatives that enhance both understanding and practice.

Whether you’re a yoga teacher seeking to improve your verbal communication or a dedicated practitioner eager to refine your alignment, this episode will help you:

✔️ Clarify common cues like “lift your kneecaps” and “tuck your tailbone”

✔️ Understand why some cues aren’t landing and how to adjust them

✔️ Enhance your students’ experience with precise, actionable language

Join us as we unpack and rephrase cues that are technically correct but can be made more accessible and impactful.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. I'm Andrea Ferretti, and this is Yoga Land.
0:09.3	Hi, Jason.
0:10.3	Hi, Andrea.
0:11.1	How you doing?
0:11.8	I'm doing great.
0:13.0	Doing great.
0:13.8	This is part two.
0:15.7	If you haven't listened to part one, this is still going to be completely worth your time and make sense. But this is part two of a verbal communication, verbal queuing skills, improvements, conversation. Yes. Yeah. And so what are we going to focus on specifically today? Okay. There is a question that came up in my 300-hour training by a very good, skillful yoga
0:41.9	teacher.
0:43.2	And she raised her hand and she said, I have a question about a really common cue.
0:48.9	And this light bulb went off in my head and I remembered so many times in my advanced teacher training programs,
0:56.9	this is usually when the question comes up, so many times that people have asked me about
1:02.1	common verbal cues that don't feel completely perfect to them, right? And so they kind of want
1:10.2	my advice, like, does this cue make sense?
1:13.6	Does this cue work? Is there a better way to say this thing? And so I started to really think about all of the cues that I think are situationally good, appropriate cues that I think can be said more clearly.
1:31.6	Okay.
1:32.0	More accurately, more skillfully.
1:34.3	Okay.
1:34.7	So we're not today.
1:36.0	I'm not going to talk.
1:36.8	I'm not, nothing is getting thrown under a bus.
1:39.2	I'm not going to talk about things that I think are wrong or this or that is no
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