The Most Important Skill Missing from Yoga Teacher Trainings
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Most yoga teacher trainings prepare you to teach one class at a time.
They don’t teach you how to build real student progress.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
4:04 The hidden gap in yoga teacher training
5:50 Why “random” classes stall student progress
8:40 The burnout cycle for yoga teachers
13:24 The curriculum mindset explained
14:40 Monthly arcs, series & workshops
27:58 Expanding your teaching career
In this episode, Jason breaks down the most overlooked skill in modern yoga teacher training: learning how to think like an educator instead of teaching one-off classes.
Most 200-hour yoga teacher trainings focus on sequencing individual classes. But students don’t learn in 60-minute increments. They need repetition, structure, continuity, and progressive overload to make real progress.
You’ll learn:
• Why random yoga sequencing leads to student plateaus
• How lack of curriculum causes teacher burnout
• The difference between novelty and skill development
• How to design month-long class arcs
• How to create yoga workshops and special series
• Why this shift improves student retention and career sustainability
If you’re a yoga teacher who wants better student results, stronger retention, and a more sustainable teaching career, this conversation will change how you think about sequencing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is Yoga Land. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome back, Jason. |
| 0:10.6 | Thanks for having me and also welcome back Ginger Rose Crandall. |
| 0:14.1 | She's like you're a little familiar right now. |
| 0:16.5 | Totally. Those of you watching on YouTube, by the way, if you are watching on YouTube, like, subscribe, all those things. I always forget to say that. But it really does help the |
| 0:24.2 | channel. But if you are watching on YouTube, you will see that it is a Chihuahua in the lap kind of vibe |
| 0:29.5 | morning. It's the best because she stares at me and I stare at her over and over into infinity. |
| 0:36.4 | I know. It's amazing. All right. So let's talk about what's coming up |
| 0:40.6 | in person for you this year because you've got a couple of great events. In the end of April, |
| 0:45.6 | I will be in San Francisco, our own, our former homeland of 25 years. I'll be there for a weekend |
| 0:53.6 | like the 24th to the 26, teaching content on functional flow, which I'm so excited about. And then just- And that'll be at Castro yoga room. Castro yoga room. Yeah. And then in the middle of June, early to mid-June, I am doing a teacher's retreat in London. And I did this last year. |
| 1:14.8 | And we just had such a good time. So that just went on sale today, actually, the day of recording. |
| 1:20.1 | So that always fills up. So if you want to come practice and just enjoy London for five days, check it out. |
| 1:29.7 | Yes. |
| 1:30.3 | So if you want to register for either of those, you can go to the Castro Yoga Room website for the San Francisco event. |
| 1:36.8 | And then the Mission Yoga website for the London event. |
| 1:40.2 | Exactly. |
| 1:40.7 | Okay. |
| 1:41.8 | And then we've got this week, we are launching yoga sequencing 2.0, which is your new online sequencing program. And it looks great. I've been setting it all up, getting everything already, which means I learn much more about it. And I'm, I'm impressed. I'm impressed too. I'm like, this has been years in the making. |
| 2:02.6 | I mean, |
| 2:02.8 | in a way all my courses are because they, |
| 2:05.8 | like my courses come from a place within me where I wish I had learned this information earlier |
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