What if a yoga pose wasn't a destination, but a doorway?

You know the mixed-level room. One student always reaches for the hardest version. Another apologizes for "only" doing the first option. Most of us learned to teach the "full" pose first and modify for whoever needs something different, and without meaning to, we've built a hierarchy into our classes.

In this interactive continuing education workshop, we'll flip that approach. You'll learn to build a postural progression from a meaningful foundation, then invite students to add layers of challenge, complexity, range, or intensity based on what they need that day.

We'll use the energetics of yoga practice, Bṛṃhaṇa (building and nourishing), Laṅghana (lightening and reducing), and Samaṇa (balancing and integrating), as a guide for which poses you offer and how you offer them.

Through movement, observation, discussion, and group work, we'll practice:

• Creating strong, purposeful foundations for each pose

• Exploring variations without a "good, better, best" hierarchy

• Using energetic principles to guide pose choices and cueiing language

• Presenting options as an invitation rather than an expectation

• Recognizing that a more complex expression isn't neccessarily a more valuable one

Come explore how changing the way you offer a pose can change the experience of the entire practice, and give every student more ways to express themselves in it.

For RYT-200 and RYT-500 teachers, current trainees, and anyone teaching mixed-level rooms.

Bring your mat and a notebook.

3 Yoga Alliance CEUs