Why sequencing is a modern yoga teacher's most important skill
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ninety minutes is a really long time to stand in front of a group and talk, no matter how much you know about the topic! That's why having a clear plan is key for yoga teachers. (Because, as Jason points out, if you don't have some sort of plan, you'll either go off on random tangents or run out of things to say.)
Today, Jason shares how he plans his yoga class sequences so his students are engaged and learning something meaningful every time. Plus, he addresses one of the most common objections yoga teachers give for not planning (creativity) and why he believes having a structure actually gives teachers more room to be creative, not less.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 236 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:08.9 | I am back with Jason today. Hi Jason. Hello. Last week was our first week back and I mean, |
| 0:17.1 | can you believe we used to crank these out? I used to crank these out every week for years on end. |
| 0:22.3 | I can believe it. Because it just feels like, wow, we're doing this again. |
| 0:25.8 | Remember how every weekend I was in another week. Yeah, but we've gotten so soft. So soft. |
| 0:32.4 | Anyway, last week we had kind of a meta discussion, which I really enjoyed so much about education and |
| 0:40.0 | the sort of the values that you're trying to instill as an educator. This week we thought we would be |
| 0:47.4 | more nuts and bolts and talk about sequencing insights that you have and and this is really |
| 0:54.6 | apropos of right now because you are about to do your fall sequencing workshop online and that |
| 1:04.0 | is on sale today. Yeah, you know, sequencing is really the, it ties into last week's conversation |
| 1:11.5 | well because sequencing is in so many ways where we deliver the education and the experience that |
| 1:19.6 | we're delivering, right? Sequencing is like where you enact the teaching, the postures, |
| 1:29.3 | it's where you communicate what you're trying to communicate it as a teacher. In so many ways, |
| 1:34.4 | you talk a lot about content, right? To me, when you talk about content, the first thing I think |
| 1:40.8 | of from a yoga teaching perspective is sequencing. Sequencing is our content. It's our 30 minute |
| 1:48.4 | content, our 45 minute content, our 60 minute content, whatever the environment, whatever the duration |
| 1:54.2 | of the class is. It's the flow of content. It's how we decide what we are going to teach. It's |
| 2:02.4 | what we teach and it's the order that we teach it in. So sequencing to me is probably the single |
| 2:10.3 | most important sub-skill of being a yoga teacher. I also think it's one of the most stressful. |
| 2:19.4 | I think it's one of the most stressful because so many of us, we just think that we have to |
| 2:27.1 | write a new song every week and we have to write a song that no one has ever, ever, ever heard. |
| 2:32.8 | We think in every sequence that we ever teach, we have to set the yoga world on fire. |
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