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Mixed Level Teaching Essentials

This course is based on my book,
Teaching Yoga: Creative Cueing for Safer Mixed Level Classes.

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The course includes 6 hours of video!

Learn creative cueing and informed modifications so that all your students feel successful, making you the teacher they trust!

Upon completion 6 hours of CEUs are available through Yoga Alliance.

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Mixed Level Teaching Essentials Curriculum

  • Module 1 - Breath Awareness

    Reading for this module:

    Teaching Yoga: Creative Cueing for Safer Mixed Level Classes, pages 1 - 16

    Total video run time for this module is 35 minutes.

    Lesson 1.1 - Yoga Breathing Basics: 3-Part Breath and Ujjayi

    Lesson 1.2 - Breathing in Active Asana - Rib Breathing in Tree

    Lesson 1.3 - Traditional Yoga Breathing with Specific Movements

    Lesson 1.4 - Examples of Traditional Yoga Breathing in Cat/Cow and Sage Twist Practice 

    Lesson 1.5 - Subtle Breathing Experiences: Learning to Focus the Breath into one Area 

  • Module 2 - Opening and Grounding the Feet

    Reading for this module: pages 19-32

    Total video run time for this module is 30 minutes.

    Lesson 2.1 - Learning Why Opening the Feet First Helps to Open the Legs and Hips

    Lesson 2.2 - Working with the Feet in Standing Poses: Mountain

    Lesson 2.3 - Accessible Variations for Stances in the Standing Poses

    Lesson 2.4 - Learn Basic and Deeper Cues for Pyramid starting from the Feet and Moving up to the Head

    Lesson 2.5 - How to Work the Feet in the Seated Poses

  • Module 3 - Aligning the Ankles and Knees

    Reading for this module: pages 33-50

    Total video run time for this module is 35 minutes.

    Lesson 3.1 - Discovering Supination and Pronation

    Lesson 3.2 - Ankle Range of Motion Only Part of the Story with Squat Pose

    Lesson 3.3 - Is the Knee Really Hyperextended?

    Lesson 3.4 - Small Adjustments with the Feet and Knees Help Students Balance in One-Legged Poses

    Lesson 3.5 - Lining up the Feet and Knees in Goddess

  • Module 4 - Activating the Quads and Glutes

    Reading for this module: pages 51 - 68

    Total video run time for this module is 40 minutes.

    Lesson 4.1 - Learning to Activate the Quads and Glutes

    Lesson 4.2 - Using Abduction to Help Students Recruit their Glutes

    Lesson 4.3 - Ideas for Cueing Triangle 

    Lesson 4.4 - Improving Success in Warrior 3

    Lesson 4.5 - The Challenge of Teaching Seated Poses

    Lesson 4.6 - How to Help Students who Overuse their Glutes

  • Module 5 - Stretching the Hips Carefully

    Reading for this module: pages 69 - 88

    Total video run time for this module is 40 minutes.

    Lesson 5.1 - How ROM of the Hips Differs Between Students

    Lesson 5.2 - Cueing and Modification Options in Cobbler for Both Flexible and Not So Flexible 

    Lesson 5.3 - Cueing Examples for Wide-Legged Forward Fold in Mixed Level Classes

    Lesson 5.4 - Teaching Pigeon with the Safest Options

  • Module 6 - Awakening the Core and Stabilizing the Pelvis

    Reading for this module: pages 89 - 114

    Total video run time for this module is 50 minutes.

    Lesson 6.1 - Why Not Use the Classic “Belly Button to Spine” Cue? 

    Lesson 6.2 - Teaching Half Moon with a Focus on the Core

    Lesson 6.3 - How to Evaluate if Students are in Their Core with Birddog

    Lesson 6.4 - Options for Helping Students Get Started with Big Toe Hold

    Lesson 6.5 - Understanding Pelvic Positions and Stability

    Lesson 6.6 - Finding the Core in Side Lying Poses and Exercises

  • Module 7 - Freeing the Spine

    Reading for this module: pages 115 - 136

    Total video run time for this module is 40 minutes.

    Lesson 7.1 - Keeping the Spine Safe While Forward Bending

    Lesson 7.2 - Backbend Basics with Locust 

    Lesson 7.3 - Learning to Twist Through the Ribs

    Lesson 7.4 - Using the Breath to Deepen the Twisting Experience

  • Module 8 - Stabilizing the Shoulders and Opening the Chest

    Reading for this module: pages 137 - 155

    Total video run time for this module is 40 minutes.

    Lesson 8.1 - Help Students Understand and Become Aware of their Shoulders

    Lesson 8.2 - Help Students Take their Arms Overhead and also Behind them in a Safer Way 

    Lesson 8.3 - Learn Foam Roller Warm-Ups to Open the Shoulders and Chest

    Lesson 8.4 - Options for Stretching the Shoulders

    Lesson 8.5 - Teaching Side Angle 

    Lesson 8.6 - The Deep Dive into Downward Dog 

    Lesson 8.7 - Modified Sun Salutations

  • Module 9 - Supporting the Wrists, Hands, and Elbows

    Reading for this module: pages 157 - 176

    Total video run time for this module is 15 minutes.

    Lesson 9.1 - Breaking the Pattern of Hyperextension

    Lesson 9.2 - Teaching Upward Dog

    Lesson 9.3 - Hyperextension vs. Carrying Angle of the Elbows 

    Lesson 9.4 - Teaching Side Plank

  • Module 10 - Realigning the Neck and Head

    Reading for this module: pages 177 - 209

    Total video run time for this module is 25 minutes.

    Lesson 10.1 - Aligning the Head on Top of the Neck

    Lesson 10.2 - Happy Necks in Triangle and Side Angle 

    Lesson 10.3 - Safety Issues in Shoulderstand and Plow

    Lesson 10.4 - Practicing “L” Handstand at the Wall

    Lesson 10.5 - Ideas for Teaching Shavasana in the Gym

  • Teach safer mixed level classes.

  • Keep students interested in your teaching by changing your cueing.

  • Modify the basic poses for varying body types.

  • Help students safely determine their natural limitations due to anatomical differences.

  • Answer the many questions students frequently ask after class.

  • Be confident choosing your own words (rather than scripts) and be your true self while teaching.

  • And much, much, more!

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