Introduction
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Course Overview
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IMPORTANT PLEASE READ
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The Blissology Class Planner; Download and Print
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Sequencing Course Manual Week One: Download and Print
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Sequencing Course Manual Week Two: Download and Print
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Sequencing Course Manual Week Three: Download and Print
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Sequencing Course Manual Week Four: Download and Print
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Sequencing Course Manual Week Five: Download and Print
!!! Submit your videos in these links (for later)
Intention and Feeling
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Welcome to this Course (8:45)
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Important Course Logistics
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Meta Level: This course, Blissology and Eoin's Background (8:09)
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Vinyasa Yoga as Playlists (5:03)
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Iyengar and Krisnamacharya practice Vinyasa Yoga in 1936
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Lower the bar. Remove the Pressure to Create Great Sequences
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Intention and Feeling (5:37)
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How Much Exercise vs Relaxation (9:22)
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Tools for Heating and Calming in Vinyasa Yoga (10:06)
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The Gunas and Sequencing (12:22)
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Using the Blissology Class Planner on Earth Body Yoga (9:22)
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Today's Yoga Routine: Earth Body Yoga "Pipeline" the Full Routine (75:14)
OM Work: Sequencing Theory Lectures
Week 1 - Sequencing Experiential Modules Day 1+2
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The Birth of a Sequence: Lizard Ardha Flow Part One. Eoin's Process. (13:10)
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"Playings" of movement: from Teaching Methodology (13:08)
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Teacher to Teach Convo: Let's talk about the videos of Joy and Carrie. Includes OM WORK Assignment (7:26)
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Carrie on her yoga experiences (1:10)
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Joy on her yoga experiences (3:15)
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Planes of Movement, Families of Poses in EBY. Includes OM WORK Assignment! (6:23)
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Modular Thinking in Sequences: Using Earth Body Yoga (10:20)
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"Pleasure Point Routine: Earth Body Yoga Short + Mellow (41:57)
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Breaking down the Earth Body Yoga Flow
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Earth Body Yoga PDF - Download and Print
Day 3: "Swamis"
Day 4: Earth Body Yoga
Day 5: Review Your Own Video
Day 7: Metta Physical Yoga
WEEK 2 - Day 8: LECTURES Considerations for designing your ideal class
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Detail vs Flow (10:00)
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All Levels vs Specific Levels (7:49)
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Peak Poses and Target Areas in the Body (5:25)
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Sequences You are Dying to Share (2:51)
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Themes and Philosophy (5:17)
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Using Music to Inspire the Creation of Your Sequences (3:10)
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Taking Environment into Consideration for Sequencing (4:54)
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Time considerations - using logic but staying in a flow (6:33)
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What is the Somatic Experience and Why? (6:23)
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Embodiment from the Commit to Bliss Course (9:23)
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Are there any skillsets you want to work on?
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Injuries: how to adapt the practice to what you are seeing in the room
Day 9: LECTURES Considerations for designing your ideal class
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Journaling and Yoga Stick Figures: The Art of Yoga (Literally) (5:52)
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Creating a "Class Map" Yoga Using "Peace and Possibility Flow" (3:22)
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Understanding the Logic of the Peace and Possibility Flow (12:58)
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Blissology Sequencing Principle: 2 Things stay the Same (1:56)
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Blissology Sequencing Principle: The One Breath, One Movement Test (1:57)
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Peace and Possibility Speed Up to Show one Breath, One Movement (1:05)
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Peace and Possibility PDF - Download and Print
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Workshopping BEFORE the Class starts using Dragonfly (1:38)
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Real Example of a Pre-Class Workshop using Dragonfly (4:56)
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Routine: Peace and Possibility Sequence in a 35 min class - ENJOY (34:25)
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Our state of Mind is in our Hands
WEEK 2 - OM Work
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Question 1: Do you enjoy practicing yoga sequences to music ?
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Question 2: Why is journaling (or blogging) important for your themes in class?
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Question 3: What does "you are your own focus group" mean to you? Why is testing your sequences on yourself essential?
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Question 4: In a class would you choose Galavasana or Standing Pigeon first. Why?
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Question 5: How would you encourage people to stay in standing pigeon
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Question 6: Name one con of workshopping in a vinyasa flow class
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Question 7: Name one pro of workshopping in a vinyasa flow class
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Question 8: Thought experiment: You have worked at your desk all day…
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Question 9: What is the difference between embodiment and what Eoin calls “embrainment?”
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Question 10: Why do you think we need water bottles to connect to our smart phones to tell us if we have had enough water or not?
Day 10: How to Modify Peace
Day 12: Rest Day
Day 13: Submit your video #1 about Peace + Possibility
Day 14: Rest Day
WEEK 3 - Day 15: How Embodiment helps us not go Too Deep, Too Soon
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Intro to Week 3, Please read
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Blissology Themes: Intention of a Blissology Class (5:16)
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Everything to Prove in a Competitive World (3:56)
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A Vision for Empowered Teachers AND Students (4:06)
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Article: What is Embodiment from the Elephant Journal
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How to create the Somatic Experience (9:25)
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The Importance of Practicing while you are Teaching (5:14)
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The Philosophy + Physiology of the Embodied Experience (14:25)
WEEK 3 Day:16 - Experiential Practice (Cueing DUO + the Neurology of Sequencing)
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Intro to Today's content (1:52)
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What is DUO and Why? (6:56)
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What are "Go-Arounds?" (3:51)
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Pigeon Pose From Laura after just session one of Align Your Yoga! (2:30)
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Historical Record of Pigeon Pose + Why Blissology Alignment has a hard sell (6:00)
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Cueing DUO Lines for a "3D" Yoga Experience (7:39)
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The Science of Warming Up to create elegant sequences and cues (12:50)
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Short Practice Lab: Using the Neurology of Stretch for Counter Poses and Fluidity (7:19)
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Sharing My Process: Creating a Slow Flow Practice (15:41)
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Flow Practice: Slowness Begets Stillness (29:55)
WEEK 3 - OM Work Questions
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Question 1: What are 2 Intentions of the Dragonfly Mini-Workshop I taught before class?
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Question 2: When people are aware of bodily feedback (somatic awareness,) can they easily hurt themselves?
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Question 3: What are three things you can do to help people create more mind-body harmony (Embodiment)?
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Question 4: Do you agree that that because people are taught, "no pain, no gain" that we tend to override their sensory feedback?
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Question 5: Can you see how increasing the sensory awareness might help to balance this drive? If so, how?
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Question 6: What is the difference in the feeling between collapsed poses with no DUO (1D) vs expanded poses with DUO (3D)?
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Question 7: Why does understanding the muscle stretch reflex help us understand about how much time we give people to get into poses
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Question 8: What does understanding the muscle stretch reflex help you understand about how to build intelligent sequences?
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Question 9: Share three takeaways you got from the "Sharing my Process" video
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Question 10: Share Your "Proud Lizard Flow" Ending (24:24)
Day: 17
Day 18: Rest & Digest :)
WEEK 3 - Teaching Assignment
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Video and overview of this week's Teaching Assignment: Watch this FIRST (12:42)
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1 Visualize in your mind an all-levels class with Wheel Pose as the Peak Pose
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2 What is an Alternative for Yang People and a Preparation for Wheel in an All-Levels class?
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3 What’s another pose you could offer in this family of poses for someone with spondylolisthesis can’t do a back bend but can stretch the Front Body?
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4 What are 5 poses in the Front Body Stretch family that you would include in a sequence to help prepare us in this peak pose in the family, Wheel Pose?
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5. What is a great counter pose for Wheel Pose and why?
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6. Share one metaphor, image or analogy for how you feel in wheel
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7. What are 3 tendencies/ Go-Arounds that people have in Wheel pose?
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8. What are 2 things we need "de-prioritze" (unlearn) in order to keep Wheel pose safe and to not Go-Around the DUO Lines?
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9. Exercise: Do wheel pose with a journal beside you. Write two paragraphs. One paragraph about the feeling of wheel and one paragraph about the feeling right after wheel when you come out of it
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10. Exercise: Record yourself teaching 2 wheel poses and 2 minutes of counter poses
Day 20: Work on the assignments
WEEK 4 - Day 22: LECTURES The Why and How of Embodiment
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LECTURES The Why and How of Embodiment (3:16)
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Is Embodiment the End Game? 3 Reasons for Embodiment (15:18)
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The Energy Arch: Blissology Formula (9:13)
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3 ways of warming up (8:01)
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The Lens of Contracted Sea Anemones and Open, Pulsating Jellyfish (7:13)
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8 min practice: Adrenal Draining (10:32)
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The Process of Embodiment + Teaching Assignment (12:50)
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Your Turn: Teaching Assignment Adrenal Draining
Day 23: Gomukhasana
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Gomukasana Blissology Style: LSB Stretch (18:04)
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Historical Record Gomukhasana (5:42)
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Meditation: Getting Unstuck; a Fusion of Meditation, Blissology Yoga + The Embodied Release Valve (28:17)
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Your Turn: teaching Gomukhasana with "Embodied Alignment" as this week's Teaching Assignment (4:43)
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Embodied Centering from Superflow Detail (16:56)
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Embodied Centering from Superflow in Practice + 1 OM WORK QUESTION (11:37)
Day 25
Day 26 - Submit your video #3 about Gomukhasana
WEEK 5 - Day 29: Providing More Fiery Practices with Soul
WEEK 5 - Experiential Session
Day 31: Designing a more vigorous yoga class
Last Official Day!
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