Yoga Sequencing: Designing Transformative Yoga Classes presents the
essential principles and methods for planning and sequencing yoga
classes. Addressing one of the most popular topics in the yoga
profession, this book offers sixty-seven model sequences of yoga poses
(asanas) that cover the broad range of yoga student experience,
including multiple sequences for beginning, intermediate, and advanced
students; yoga for kids, teens, women across the life cycle, and
seniors; classes to relieve depression and anxiety; and sequences for
each of the major chakras and ayurvedic constitutions. Each sequence
provides guidance for teaching the different breathing (pranayama) and
meditation techniques that give yoga its transformative power.
Enhanced with over 2,000 instructional photos and an elaborate guide to
the constituent elements of over 150 yoga asanas, the book draws equally
from ancient yoga philosophy and contemporary insights into functional
anatomy, biomechanics, and kinesiology. The nuanced interrelationships
among asanas within and between the seven asana families are explored
and the anatomy of opening and stabilizing each pose is explained for
sequences designed around specific needs and intentions. A comprehensive
appendix includes a glossary of yoga-related terms, an alphabetical
asana index with thumbnail photographs of each asana, a class planning
worksheet, representative sequences from several popular styles of hatha
yoga, and a list of resources for further exploring sequencing and the
larger practice of teaching yoga.