Clarify Your Purpose and Edit Yourself to Craft Effective Yoga Themes With Michelle Marchildon

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week’s podcast with author and yoga teacher Michelle Marchildon focuses on her formula for theming your yoga classes. The formula comes from her book, Themeweaver: Connect the Power of Inspiration to Teaching Yoga and is a clear, thorough approach to creating themes that are meaningful, not cheesy, and will help your students really deeply connect their physical practice to Michelle talks us through:

•The three types of students who come to class

•The four elements that make a good theme

•Theming don’ts

•Five rules for incorporating your themes into your classes

•How to organize your themes so that you can edit them and reuse them in the future

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0:25.0	That supporter.aacast.com slash Yogaland.
0:30.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 85 of Yoga Land.
0:35.0	Today my guest is Michelle Marshallden.
0:40.0	You may remember Michelle from episode 60 with Desiree Rumboff.
0:44.0	On that episode we talked about the book that she co-wrote with Desireless After 50,
0:49.0	How to Thrive with Grace, Grit and Yoga.
0:52.0	Today we're going to talk about a completely different type of book
0:55.2	that Michelle wrote and it's called Theme Weaver.
0:57.5	Connect the power of inspiration to teaching yoga.
1:00.5	It is a very clear multi-step process to help you create meaningful concise themes for your
1:08.8	yoga classes.
1:10.6	It's incredibly thoughtful, multi-layered, and after I read it, I felt like I wished there was something like this available after my own 200 hour training.
1:20.5	I just remember feeling like after studying for 200 hours I was set free and I was alone in the ether and I had no idea what to do
1:30.5	Beyond you know the few sequences that I've been practicing and had been able to teach.
1:36.3	So one other thought, even if you're not a yoga teacher, you might find inspiration
1:40.3	from this book in this interview.
1:42.2	As you know, I am not a yoga teacher and I loved
1:45.0	it because it really inspired my creativity to start writing again and there's a
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