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Class Categories & Starting Your 5 Class Plans: Sequencing

This document provides guidance on creating class plans by dividing classes into categories and sequencing poses within those categories. It recommends starting with 5 class plans, choosing a style for each, setting durations, and selecting categories and timings for poses within each category. Sample categories include warm-up, sun salutations, standing poses, inversions, and backbends. Example poses are provided for warm-up, half and full sun salutations A, and standing poses.

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Class Categories & Starting Your 5 Class Plans: Sequencing

This document provides guidance on creating class plans by dividing classes into categories and sequencing poses within those categories. It recommends starting with 5 class plans, choosing a style for each, setting durations, and selecting categories and timings for poses within each category. Sample categories include warm-up, sun salutations, standing poses, inversions, and backbends. Example poses are provided for warm-up, half and full sun salutations A, and standing poses.

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Class Categories &

Starting Your 5 Sequencing


Class Plans
Class Categories

• The first step is to divide your class into different class parts,
or categories
• These categories are labeled by the activity that you’re
going to be engaging in during this time frame
Original Tool Box of Class Categories
Class Categories

• Warm-Up/Introduction
• Sun Salutations A
• Sun Salutations B
• Standing Postures -Lower Body Focus
• Standing Postures - Balancing
• Postures to Open for Peak
• Postures to Strengthen for Peak
• Inversions
• Hip Openers
• Backbends
• Twists
• Savasana
Sample Warm-Up Poses

• Sukhasana, Siddhasana, virasana, padmasana, dandasana,


balasana, paschimottanasana, baddha konasana....
• (Easy, Adepts, Hero’s, Lotus, Staff, Child’s, Seated Forward
Bend, Baddha Konasana, Cat/Cow)
Sample Half Sun Salutation A

• Tadasana, Uttanasana, Ardha Uttanasana


• (Mountain, Forward Fold, Halfway Lift)
Sample Sun Salutation A

• Tadasana, Uttanasana, Ardha Uttanasana, Chataranga


Dandasana, Plank, Adho Mukha Svanasana, Bhujangasana,
Urdhva Mukha Svanasana
• (Mountain, Forward Fold, Halfway Forward Fold,
Chaturanga, Plank, Down Dog, Cobra, Up Dog)
Sample Standing Postures

• Virabhadrasana I, Virabhadrasana II, Utthita Trikonasana,


Utthita Parsvakonasana, Utkatasana
• (Warrior I, Warrior II, Triangle, Extended Side Angle, Chair)
Recommendation

• Start to put together your 5 class plans


• Step 1 – Decide what style yoga each of your class plans will be
• Step 2 – Decide duration of each of 5 class plans
• Step 3 – Choose class categories for each of the 5 class plans
• Step 4 – Decide how long you will spend in each class category
for the 5 class plans

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