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Category: How to design a practice

Here we discuss the process of designing a yoga sequence, whether it’s a class or a private session, to make it more safe and effective for the students

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    • in Teaching tips · How to design a practice · yoga for your body
    • — 19 Nov, 2014

    Why do we hold yoga poses?

    I had a student many years ago who due to some psychological issues wasn’t able to keep her internal dialog to herself. So whenever she took my class, she would[…]

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    • in Teaching tips · How to design a practice · yoga for your body
    • — 12 Nov, 2014

    3 steps to making any yoga pose more effective: why do we repeat the pose before we hold it

    “Raise your hand if you are busy” – my teacher Gary Kraftsow likes to prompt at his workshops. This always gets the same reaction – a short disbelieving laugh, as[…]

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  • 0
    • in Sequencing basics · How to design a practice
    • — 15 Oct, 2014

    8 steps to design a breath-centered practice

    According to viniyoga tradition, our aging process is represented by the movement of the sun throughout the day. Sunrise represents childhood, midday represents adult life, and sunset represents old age.[…]

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    3
    • in Teaching tips · How to design a practice · yoga for your energy
    • — 8 Oct, 2014

    What’s in your toolbox? Yoga breathing techniques

    I signed up for a yoga class in the past titled something like Yoga for the changing seasons that promised to address the energetic and physiological changes that occur during[…]

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  • 0
    • in How to design a practice
    • — 1 Oct, 2014

    How to organize a practice around yoga breathing

    One of my guilty pleasures used to be watching Project Runway. Intense interpersonal drama aside, it was amazing to see all those very different designers manifest their creativity through clothing.[…]

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    3
    • in How to design a practice
    • — 2 Apr, 2014

    How to create a target yoga practice for a specific body area

    Whether we like it or not, most students come to a yoga class to relieve physical tension and get more limber. “My neck is tight today” or “I really need[…]

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    • in Sequencing basics · Teaching tips · How to design a practice
    • — 13 Feb, 2014

    How to create a yoga practice to prepare for a difficult posture

    Not long ago an acquaintance of mine said to me: “I saw a picture of this cool pose on line and I tried it – man, my back hurt afterwards!”[…]

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    1
    • in How to design a practice · Yoga "snacks"
    • — 8 Feb, 2014

    How to prepare for shoveling snow using simple yoga stretches

    Did you know that shoveling snow sends about 11,000 adults and children to the hospital EACH YEAR?!  (Read about the study) The most common injuries are overworked muscles and falling,[…]

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  • 3
    • in Sequencing basics · How to design a practice
    • — 4 Feb, 2014

    How to design a yoga practice for a specific activity

    That is a funny thing about a yoga practice – it doesn’t work if you don’t do it. 🙂 Yes, we are all busy and making time for a 90-minute[…]

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    5
    • in How to design a practice
    • — 31 Jan, 2014

    10 types of yoga practices to maximize the effect for specific students

    There are many ideas out there about what a yoga practice should look like: some believe that it’s only valid if it has a spiritual component; others focus on strictly[…]

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  • 14
    • in Sequencing basics · How to design a practice
    • — 14 Jan, 2014

    How to sequence a class for the Shoulderstand

    Leslie Kaminoff brings up an excellent point in his video: yoga sequencing is not the same as choreography. In choreography the goal is artistic expression and choices are dictated by[…]

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