A yoga class is basically a choreography and certain movements go together and some don’t. As yoga instructors we are trying to create physical and psychological benefits of our classes and one of the most important parts is intelligent sequencing—we want to make both the art and science of sequences that feel incredible in the body, mind, and hearts of our students.
We want to show you the underlying patterns that will bring your classes to the next level.
Sample Curriculum
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- Course Overview
- Optional In-Person Somatics Add-On
- Private Facebook Page for the Course
- IMPORTANT PLEASE READ
- How to submit your videos on Facebook
- Printable Interactive Course Calendar
- Zoom Link
- The Blissology Class Planner; Download and Print
- Sequencing Course Manual Week One: Download and Print
- Sequencing Course Manual Week Two: Download and Print
- Sequencing Course Manual Week Three: Download and Print
- Sequencing Course Manual Week Four: Download and Print
- Sequencing Course Manual Week Five: Download and Print
- Suggestions for evaluating yoga classes
- Zoom Call Recording Feb 9, 2023 with Chapter Markers
Day 1 (Monday, Feb 6): Intention and Feeling
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- Welcome to this Course (8:45)
- Important Course Logistics
- Meta Level: This course, Blissology and Eoin's Background (8:09)
- Vinyasa Yoga as Playlists (5:03)
- Iyengar and Krisnamacharya practice Vinyasa Yoga in 1936
- Lower the bar. Remove the Pressure to Create Great Sequences
- Intention and Feeling (5:37)
- How Much Exercise vs Relaxation (9:22)
- Tools for Heating and Calming in Vinyasa Yoga (10:06)
- The Gunas and Sequencing (12:22)
- Using the Blissology Class Planner on Earth Body Yoga (9:22)
- Today's Yoga Routine: Earth Body Yoga "Pipeline" the Full Routine (75:14)
Week 1 - OM Work: Sequencing Theory Lectures
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Week 1 - Sequencing Experiential Modules
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- The Birth of a Sequence: Lizard Ardha Flow Part One. Eoin's Process. (13:10)
- "Playings" of movement: from Teaching Methodology (13:08)
- Teacher to Teach Convo: Let's talk about the videos of Joy and Carrie. Includes OM WORK Assignment (7:26)
- Carrie on her yoga experiences (1:10)
- Joy on her yoga experiences (3:15)
- Planes of Movement, Families of Poses in EBY. Includes OM WORK Assignment! (6:23)
- Modular Thinking in Sequences: Using Earth Body Yoga (10:20)
- "Pleasure Point Routine: Earth Body Yoga Short + Mellow (41:57)
- Breaking down the Earth Body Yoga Flow
- Earth Body Yoga PDF - Download and Print
Day 3 (Wednesday, Feb 8): "Swamis"
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Day 4 (Thursday, Feb 9): Zoom call #1 today
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Day 5 (Friday, Feb 10): Earth Body Yoga
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Day 6 (Saturday, Feb 11): Review Your Own Video
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Day 7 (Sunday, Feb 12): Metta Physical Yoga
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WEEK 2 - Day 8 (Monday, Feb 13): LECTURES Considerations for designing your ideal class
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- Detail vs Flow (10:00)
- All Levels vs Specific Levels (7:49)
- Peak Poses and Target Areas in the Body (5:25)
- Sequences You are Dying to Share (2:51)
- Themes and Philosophy (5:17)
- Using Music to Inspire the Creation of Your Sequences (3:10)
- Taking Environment into Consideration for Sequencing (4:54)
- Time considerations - using logic but staying in a flow (6:33)
- What is the Somatic Experience and Why? (6:23)
- Embodiment from the Commit to Bliss Course (9:23)
- Are there any skillsets you want to work on?
- Injuries: how to adapt the practice to what you are seeing in the room
Day 9 (Tuesday, Feb 14): LECTURES Considerations for designing your ideal class
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- Journaling and Yoga Stick Figures: The Art of Yoga (Literally) (5:52)
- Creating a "Class Map" Yoga Using "Peace and Possibility Flow" (3:22)
- Understanding the Logic of the Peace and Possibility Flow (12:58)
- Blissology Sequencing Principle: 2 Things stay the Same (1:56)
- Blissology Sequencing Principle: The One Breath, One Movement Test (1:57)
- Peace and Possibility Speed Up to Show one Breath, One Movement (1:05)
- Peace and Possibility PDF - Download and Print
- Workshopping BEFORE the Class starts using Dragonfly (1:38)
- Real Example of a Pre-Class Workshop using Dragonfly (4:56)
- Routine: Peace and Possibility Sequence in a 35 min class - ENJOY (34:25)
- 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 ?
- Question 2: Why is journaling (or blogging) important for your themes in class?
- Question 3: What does "you are your own focus group" mean to you? Why is testing your sequences on yourself essential?
- Question 4: In a class would you choose Galavasana or Standing Pigeon first. Why?
- Question 5: How would you encourage people to stay in standing pigeon
- Question 6: Name one con of workshopping in a vinyasa flow class
- Question 7: Name one pro of workshopping in a vinyasa flow class
- Question 8: Thought experiment: You have worked at your desk all day…
- Question 9: What is the difference between embodiment and what Eoin calls “embrainment?”
- 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 (Wednesday, Feb 15): How to Modify Peace
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- Need to Know (read me!) || Where to Submit Om Work, How to get Blissology Comment Threads & Your Facebook Album.
- Eoin's Notes: A guide to the Videos for Week 2
- How to Modify Peace + Possibility flow for more Yang People (5:38)
- Leveling Down: Modifying Peace and Possibility Flow (20:30)
- This Week's Teaching Assignment! (2:13)
Day 11 (Thursday, Feb 16)
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Day 12 (Friday, Feb 17): Submit your video #1 about Peace + Possibility
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Day 14 (Sunday, Feb 19): Video review
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WEEK 3 - Day 15 (Feb 20): How Embodiment helps us not go Too Deep, Too Soon
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- Intro to Week 3, Please read
- Blissology Themes: Intention of a Blissology Class (5:16)
- Everything to Prove in a Competitive World (3:56)
- A Vision for Empowered Teachers AND Students (4:06)
- Article: What is Embodiment from the Elephant Journal
- How to create the Somatic Experience (9:25)
- The Importance of Practicing while you are Teaching (5:14)
- The Philosophy + Physiology of the Embodied Experience (14:25)
WEEK 3 - Experiential Practice (Cueing DUO + the Neurology of Sequencing)
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- Intro to Today's content (1:52)
- What is DUO and Why? (6:56)
- What are "Go-Arounds?" (3:51)
- Pigeon Pose From Laura after just session one of Align Your Yoga! (2:30)
- Historical Record of Pigeon Pose + Why Blissology Alignment has a hard sell (6:00)
- Cueing DUO Lines for a "3D" Yoga Experience (7:39)
- The Science of Warming Up to create elegant sequences and cues (12:50)
- Short Practice Lab: Using the Neurology of Stretch for Counter Poses and Fluidity (7:19)
- Sharing My Process: Creating a Slow Flow Practice (15:41)
- 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?
- Question 2: When people are aware of bodily feedback (somatic awareness,) can they easily hurt themselves?
- Question 3: What are three things you can do to help people create more mind-body harmony (Embodiment)?
- Question 4: Do you agree that that because people are taught, "no pain, no gain" that we tend to override their sensory feedback?
- Question 5: Can you see how increasing the sensory awareness might help to balance this drive? If so, how?
- Question 6: What is the difference in the feeling between collapsed poses with no DUO (1D) vs expanded poses with DUO (3D)?
- Question 7: Why does understanding the muscle stretch reflex help us understand about how much time we give people to get into poses
- Question 8: What does understanding the muscle stretch reflex help you understand about how to build intelligent sequences?
- Question 9: Share three takeaways you got from the "Sharing my Process" video
- Question 10: Share Your "Proud Lizard Flow" Ending (24:24)
Day 16 (Tuesday, Feb 21): No content
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Day 17 (Wednesday, Feb 22): OM WORK QUESTIONS
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WEEK 3 - Teaching Assignment
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- Video and overview of this week's Teaching Assignment: Watch this FIRST (12:42)
- 1 Visualize in your mind an all-levels class with Wheel Pose as the Peak Pose
- 2 What is an Alternative for Yang People and a Preparation for Wheel in an All-Levels class?
- 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?
- 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?
- 5. What is a great counter pose for Wheel Pose and why?
- 6. Share one metaphor, image or analogy for how you feel in wheel
- 7. What are 3 tendencies/ Go-Arounds that people have in Wheel pose?
- 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?
- 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
- 10. Exercise: Record yourself teaching 2 wheel poses and 2 minutes of counter poses
Day 18 (Thursday, Feb 23): Zoom call #2
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Day 19 (Friday, Feb 24): Work on the assignments
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WEEK 4 - Day 22 (Monday, Feb 27): LECTURES The Why and How of Embodiment
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- LECTURES The Why and How of Embodiment (3:16)
- Is Embodiment the End Game? 3 Reasons for Embodiment (15:18)
- The Energy Arch: Blissology Formula (9:13)
- 3 ways of warming up (8:01)
- The Lens of Contracted Sea Anemones and Open, Pulsating Jellyfish (7:13)
- 8 min practice: Adrenal Draining (10:32)
- The Process of Embodiment + Teaching Assignment (12:50)
- Your Turn: Teaching Assignment Adrenal Draining
Day 23 (Tuesday, Feb 28): Gomukhasana
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- Gomukasana Blissology Style: LSB Stretch (18:04)
- Historical Record Gomukhasana (5:42)
- Meditation: Getting Unstuck; a Fusion of Meditation, Blissology Yoga + The Embodied Release Valve (28:17)
- Your Turn: teaching Gomukhasana with "Embodied Alignment" as this week's Teaching Assignment (4:43)
- Embodied Centering from Superflow Detail (16:56)
- Embodied Centering from Superflow in Practice + 1 OM WORK QUESTION (11:37)
Day 24 (Wednesday, Mar 1)
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Day 25 (Thursday, Mar 2)
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Day 26 (Friday, Mar 3) - Submit your video #3 about Gomukhasana
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WEEK 5 - Day 29 (Monday, Mar 6): Providing More Fiery Practices with Soul
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WEEK 5 - Experiential Session
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Day 31 (Wednesday, Mar 8): Designing a more vigorous yoga class
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Day 32 (Thursday, Mar 9): Zoom call #3
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Day 33 (Friday, Mar 10)
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