Teaching Methodology Part 1, Interactive
This interactive course will take place in October 2022.
In this course you will learn to teach with feeling and with clarity, focussing on the first half of Blissology’s Yoga Honey Sequence.
You will learn to rethink how and why yoga is taught, so that you are not just reciting stale cues that do not fully capture the full potential of the asanas.
We will up-level your ability to empower students to build the most beneficial poses for their unique needs and bodies.
As a result, you will become crystal clear on the tools to help transfer knowledge in a way that students can understand and build yoga poses up from the inside out.
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Teaching yoga is both a Science and an Art. This groundbreaking course offers both those tools: the logical ones such as understanding sequencing and the rhythm of a Blissology flow class; as well as the more subtle, intangible skills required to become a proficient yoga teacher: feeling and working with the energy of your class, and using your voice: the instrument of the soul.
This module is the last course that is part of our 100 hr Online YTT. You will use techniques you have honed in the first two courses (Align Your Yoga, Align Your Life AND Commit to Bliss) and apply them to both your own practice as well as teaching scenarios. This way, you will be ready to teach classes that flow, is technically sound and share a powerful experience with your students.
We can’t wait to share this journey with you!
In this training we'll be learning the majority of this 35-minute Yoga Honey sequence:
> Session 1: Sun Salutations
We will teach sun salutations in small groups.
> Session 2: Triangle Matrix
We will teach Triangle Matrix in small groups.
> Session 3: Warrior Matrix
We will teach Warrior Matrix in small groups.
To continue your teaching journey further, please ask us about completing the second half of our Yoga Alliance Certified 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training Program.
Namaste + Aloha,
Eoin Finn + the Blissology Team.
Frequently asked questions about this course:
- Who is this course for? This course is designed to support students who are interested in pursuing their 100 HR Online Immersion or 200 HR YTT. A pre-requisite to this course is that you to have completed Align Your Yoga, Align Your Life Part 1 & Commit to Bliss Part 1 first.
- How much time should I expect to spend on this course? This is an interactive course that is set over 3 weeks and led by Eoin Finn, along with Mentors who are a Certified Blissology Yoga Instructor. This 3-week course is roughly 35 hours in total and includes pre-recorded lectures, live zoom calls, yoga practices, journaling and homework submissions (in the form of written work + recordings of your teachings for review).
- What should I expect to learn from this course? You will walk away learning how to teach yoga with feeling and clarity. This module specifically focuses on the first half of Blissology's Yoga Honey Series. This course will allow you to teach back in order to help up-level your ability to empower students to build the most beneficial poses for their unique needs and bodies. A requirement of this course will be to submit video recordings of your teachings so that you can get 1:1 mentorship from a Blissology Certified Yoga Instructor to support your training and development.
- Does this course count towards Yoga Alliance CEUs. Yes. You will receive 35 CEUs if you are a current, registered YA teacher. You may also use this course towards our 200 hr Yoga Alliance Online YTT.
- How long will I have access to this course content? You will have unlimited access to this content and it will not expire. Enjoy this benefit and feel free to revisit this module whenever you need it.
Course Curriculum
- What does Hatha Yoga Really Mean? (9:25)
- What does Vinyasa Yoga Really Mean? (3:25)
- Introduction to Intelligent Vinyasa Yoga Sequences (8:35)
- Breathing - 3 types (3:43)
- soft ujjayi - calm, don't agitate. (9:39)
- Introduction to Yoga Honey - Understanding the sequence (9:28)
- Learn Sun Salutations (4:52)
- An inhale and exhale demo you will never forget! (2:33)
- Understanding when to cue inhales and exhales (9:36)
- Timing of vinyasa and sun salutations (17:11)
- The Importance of Timing: Lay down your Drum Track first (7:05)
- Tempo Exercise: Sun Salutations using just Inhale and Exhale (3:32)
- Demoing. The Blissology Progression (8:42)
- Overview of this session (4:52)
- GOLD from Blissology Yoga Foundations Course: Foot Placement in Sun Salutations (16:37)
- Planes of Movement (13:08)
- Cueing DUO Lines (13:21)
- Where to get your cues from (6:04)
- How long to hold standing poses for (5:24)
- Secrets to Teaching an All-level Class (12:08)
- EOIN's Asana Lab: Triangle (13:13)
- EOIN's Asana Lab: Pyramid (9:01)
- EOIN's Asana Lab: Revolved Triangle (7:16)
- Understanding the Logic of the Triangle Matrix sequence (7:22)
- Triangle Pose Matrix in a Vinyasa Flow (11:47)
- YOGA HONEY SHORT FORM PRACTICE
- Blissology Project Yoga Routine Yoga practice
- OM WORK QUESTION 1: Meditation, Yoga + Anger
- OM WORK QUESTION 2: about timing of vinyasa yoga (related to video above on timing) (3:48)
- OM WORK QUESTIONS VIDEO (Answer each question below under the lecture's comment section) (4:31)
- OM WORK QUESTION 3: CUEING
- OM WORK QUESTION 4: How Long to Hold Standing Poses for
- OM WORK QUESTION 5: What is a Duo Line?
- OM WORK QUESTION 6: What are the benefits of DUO (the 3 S's of DUO)
- OM WORK QUESTION 7: What is a Go Around?
- OM WORK QUESTION 8A) What are the four main DUO lines in Triangle Pose
- OM WORK QUESTION 8B) What are the three main DUO lines in Pyramid
- OM WORK QUESTION 8C) What are the three main DUO lines in Revolved Triangle DUO Lines
- Flow Practice: YOGA HONEY from our Bali Feb 2020 Graduating Class
- Starting with end in mind and get a watch! (8:19)
- It all starts with getting clear on the feeling you want to share (9:09)
- Understanding the Logic of the Warrior Matrix sequence (3:11)
- Warrior Matrix to create CALM (8:10)
- Warrior Matrix to create more FITNESS (6:14)
- Understanding Sequencing by Analyzing Grounded in Calm Sequence (3:01)
- The most important decision that shapes your practice Fitness or Calming (5:22)
- Grounded in Calm: A flow featuring Yoga Honey Sequences (29:39)
- Watch: Yoga Foundation: Sun Sal + Triangle Flow Practice
- Watch: “Foot Placement + Feet Flipping: Chaturanga to Updog” Episode 13, Session1 of Blissology Yoga Foundation
- Work on OM Work
- EOIN's Asana Lab: Side Angle Pose (Watch this video before responding to OM WORK questions) (17:36)
- OM WORK QUESTION 1) What are two things we need to de-prioritze in this pose in order to get the adductor stretch?
- OM WORK QUESTION 2) Finish this sentence: In Blissology Yoga, in any yoga pose, we just don't to go from up to down but we want to.....
- OM WORK QUESTION 3) What is the problem with "propping and flopping?" We mean, resting the elbow on the knee.
- OM WORK QUESTION 4) What muscles need to activate on the upper side of the body to create DUO?
- OM WORK QUESTION 5) Why does the pelvis want to tilt forward in this pose (hip flexion) so the butt sticks out?
- OM WORK QUESTION 6) Please check the photo in the first OM WORK Asana Lab (EOIN's Asana Lab: Side Angle Pose), the text says Stack the right shoulder over the right foot. What is the issue with this? Hint, we always tell people NEVER TO CUE LINING BONES UP WITH OTHER BONES, CEILINGS OR WALLS!!
- EOIN's Asana Lab: Anjaney Asana Pose (Watch this video before responding to next OM WORK questions) (12:55)
- OM WORK QUESTION 7) finish this sentence: In Blissology Yoga, we don't just want to fall back into the stretch, we want to go forward, _________ and then ________
- OM WORK QUESTION 8) when people simply go from a high place to a low (up to down), why is there more pressure on the back knee?
- OM WORK QUESTION 9) how can the supportive tension of DUO help this
- OM WORK QUESTION 10) finish this sentence or "De-Prioritizing:" In Blissology Yoga, instead of making the knee on the floor priority one, we want to be guided by __________________________
- OM WORK QUESTION 11) Why are the feet important in this pose?
- EOIN's Asana Lab: Revolved Prayer Pose (Watch this video before responding to next Om Work) (9:59)
- OM WORK QUESTION 12) Why is one hip in both of these pictures being pulled forward? What do these people need to de-prioritize?
- 5 minute Blissification - some movement to help you study
Eoin Finn is a globally renowned yogi, surfer and Blissologist who has been carving his original tracks through the metaphysical worlds of yoga, philosophy and movement since 1989.
Lauded by Yoga Journal as the “Thoreau of Yoga” for his eco-activism and dedication to connecting yogis more deeply to the spirituality of nature; and by Oprah as “one to watch,” Finn’s Blissology Yoga style centers on the simple idea of sharing happiness.
While rooted deeply in the therapeutic and transformative alignment and physiology of yoga, Finn’s down to earth, modern insights on spirituality refresh like cool water and he firmly believes that to find bliss you must “seek quiet solitude in nature.”
A passionate ocean-activist, Eoin started the Blissology EcoKarma project in 2014 raising aid and awareness through yoga and activism for the world’s precious but imperilled coral reefs.
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