Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. I'm Arundati and today we are going to audit your yoga sequence.

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Early December, I am sending a downloadable checklist that you can print and take

into your own practice or your classes. This audit checklist will be sent out to all email

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As we continue to move forward in our 300 hour yoga teacher training series, I'm going to be dropping a bunch of these downloadable freebies.

These are sneak previews from the training that you can take and put into practice and use in your own

yoga practice as well as your teaching. They will be about different things. This week, it is

about auditing your sequence. Now, if you are teaching asana classes, raise your hand. If you

have ever silently thought to yourself, something felt off in that sequence. You don't know if it landed

the way you wanted it to. You sometimes feel like an imposter in your own classes. You question

if you are throwing in random transitions just to fill time up. And if you are raising your

hand for any of this, know that you are not alone. I am

guilty of every single one of these things. In fact, when I was a brand new asana teacher,

I thought making my students work very hard, making them sweat was somehow a great class. And I

often joke that I should send apology letters to my early students because I had no

idea what I was doing. The thing is, it's not really our fault, right? We are handed down in

teacher trainings. We are handed down templates and choreography, because I come from the dance

world, these sequences that we plug and play were given these scripts and we think

these generic flows that we end up teaching are actually moving the needle and is fantastic

sequencing. But the truth is, there's a better way, there's a smarter way, there's a more joyful

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