generally when engaging in my own practice i begin with breathe location, and then warm up with sun salutations. what are some alternatives to sun salutations? other than cat/cow.
The warmup is normally a preparation for the practice. What kind of practice do you do? How intense is it? What is the goal of it? How long do you practice for? What are some of the postures or sequences that you do during the practice? Do you do it in the morning or at night?
I’m going to being teaching a 7:30am hour-long class at my old universities rec center. I’ve taught there before but it was at 4:30pm, where I feel that most peoples bodies had naturally loosened up throughout the day. Never too intense of a practice, some of the most difficult things I’d do were head stands and crow.
Generally what I did: 7 or so minutes of teaching ujjai breathing/relaxing/turning the mind volume down, cat/cow rotation, sun salutations, warrior series/or just some tougher holding poses to work up a sweat, deeper stretches, backbends and/or some more intensive poses, then 8-10 for corpse pose.
The students I had were always pleased with the practice (I’ll guess mainly because I’ve got the whole trance-like voice down during corpse) but since I’m going to be teaching twice a week now, in addition to it being so early in the morning where my class can influence the general flow of a persons day, I’d like to have a greater repertoire to pull from as to keep things mixed up. (Other than the beginning and end of class I always like to mix up the asanas I throw in the middle).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.