Sequences

So I just got certified yesterday to be a Yoga teacher (hooray!)

My goal is to eventually open a studio that focuses on Yoga for specific groups of people or specific disorders.

Right now I am trying to concoct sequences for classes (about 90 minutes). Would anyone be willing to help me? I’d like to do a sequence for:
Prenatal Yoga
Yoga for the elderly and disabled
Yoga for Eating Disorders
Yoga for Depression/Anxiety/BiPolar

Namaste, Amanda

Usually sequencing is something covered in teacher training.

Sequencing (especially for therapeutic applications) is a craft rather than choreography - which I feel certain certified teachers already know. It comes from a deep understanding of the effects of each pose and their synergy with other poses, meditation, nutrition, lifestyle, and applied philosophy. I don’t think it can be concocted, per se. It has to be steeped.

New teachers are best advised to stick to a basic sequence of teaching for several years until such steeping is complete :slight_smile:

To concoct something that is easy, add a little of this and a little of that, but to really sequence your class that takes time and a lot of effort and a good deal of intuition.

I am in my second year of teaching and I was fortunarte enough to have had a very good teacher who always told us how she sequenced her class and why. During my teacher training I had a trainer who emphasized sequencing and the sillabus focused on this aspect a lot.

A few recommendations from my side: usually there is a linage connected to the style of yoga you are doing, stick to that style and the linage and what they present as their form/sequence in the beginning, you can later on start to add aspects which you feel is your own and which will make your class unique.

Here and here are links to the issue of sequencing that came up previously on the Forum with great advise. There are other posts as well and perhaps doing a search will reveal them to you and some more gems. :slight_smile:

Good luck, it will come to you, just go on and do what you intuitively feels you must do, it is usually the right sequence.

I would advise that you take a teacher training certification or learn under a good teacher. Even if we gave you a sequence, you would need to change it up and you wouldn’t be able to without an understanding of it.