Learn More About Cueing Yoga Poses!

In my book, Teaching Yoga: Creative Cueing for Safer Mixed Level Classes, I share creative cues and sequencing ideas you can use in your yoga classes. For each chapter of the book, I also created video lessons!

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My Yoga Cueing Course Includes 50 Video Lessons!

Module 1 - Breath Awareness

Reading for this module:
Teaching Yoga: Creative Cueing for Safer Mixed Level Classes, pages 1 - 16
Total video run time for this module is 35 minutes.
Lesson 1.1 - Yoga Breathing Basics: 3-Part Breath and Ujjayi
Lesson 1.2 - Breathing in Active Asana - Rib Breathing in Tree
Lesson 1.3 - Traditional Yoga Breathing with Specific Movements
Lesson 1.4 - Examples of Traditional Yoga Breathing in Cat/Cow and Sage Twist Practice
Lesson 1.5 - Subtle Breathing Experiences: Learning to Focus the Breath into one Area
Module 2 - Opening and Grounding the Feet

Reading for this module: pages 19-32
Total video run time for this module is 30 minutes.
Lesson 2.1 - Learning Why Opening the Feet First Helps to Open the Legs and Hips
Lesson 2.2 - Working with the Feet in Standing Poses: Mountain
Lesson 2.3 - Accessible Variations for Stances in the Standing Poses
Lesson 2.4 - Learn Basic and Deeper Cues for Pyramid starting from the Feet and Moving up to the Head
Lesson 2.5 - How to Work the Feet in the Seated Poses
Module 3 - Aligning the Ankles and Knees

Reading for this module: pages 33-50
Total video run time for this module is 35 minutes.
Lesson 3.1 - Discovering Supination and Pronation
Lesson 3.2 - Ankle Range of Motion Only Part of the Story with Squat Pose
Lesson 3.3 - Is the Knee Really Hyperextended?
Lesson 3.4 - Small Adjustments with the Feet and Knees Help Students Balance in One-Legged Poses
Lesson 3.5 - Lining up the Feet and Knees in Goddess
Module 4 - Activating the Quads and Glutes

Reading for this module: pages 51 - 68
Total video run time for this module is 40 minutes.
Lesson 4.1 - Learning to Activate the Quads and Glutes
Lesson 4.2 - Using Abduction to Help Students Recruit their Glutes
Lesson 4.3 - Ideas for Cueing Triangle
Lesson 4.4 - Improving Success in Warrior 3
Lesson 4.5 - The Challenge of Teaching Seated Poses
Lesson 4.6 - How to Help Students who Overuse their Glutes
Module 5 - Stretching the Hips Carefully

Reading for this module: pages 69 - 88
Total video run time for this module is 40 minutes.
Lesson 5.1 - How ROM of the Hips Differs Between Students
Lesson 5.2 - Cueing and Modification Options in Cobbler for Both Flexible and Not So Flexible
Lesson 5.3 - Cueing Examples for Wide-Legged Forward Fold in Mixed Level Classes
Lesson 5.4 - Teaching Pigeon with the Safest Options
Module 6 - Awakening the Core and Stabilizing the Pelvis

Reading for this module: pages 89 - 114
Total video run time for this module is 50 minutes.
Lesson 6.1 - Why Not Use the Classic “Belly Button to Spine” Cue?
Lesson 6.2 - Teaching Half Moon with a Focus on the Core
Lesson 6.3 - How to Evaluate if Students are in Their Core with Birddog
Lesson 6.4 - Options for Helping Students Get Started with Big Toe Hold
Lesson 6.5 - Understanding Pelvic Positions and Stability
Lesson 6.6 - Finding the Core in Side Lying Poses and Exercises
Module 7 - Freeing the Spine

Reading for this module: pages 115 - 136
Total video run time for this module is 40 minutes.
Lesson 7.1 - Keeping the Spine Safe While Forward Bending
Lesson 7.2 - Backbend Basics with Locust
Lesson 7.3 - Learning to Twist Through the Ribs
Lesson 7.4 - Using the Breath to Deepen the Twisting Experience
Module 8 - Stabilizing the Shoulders and Opening the Chest

Reading for this module: pages 137 - 155
Total video run time for this module is 40 minutes.
Lesson 8.1 - Help Students Understand and Become Aware of their Shoulders
Lesson 8.2 - Help Students Take their Arms Overhead and also Behind them in a Safer Way
Lesson 8.3 - Learn Foam Roller Warm-Ups to Open the Shoulders and Chest
Lesson 8.4 - Options for Stretching the Shoulders
Lesson 8.5 - Teaching Side Angle
Lesson 8.6 - The Deep Dive into Downward Dog
Lesson 8.7 - Modified Sun Salutations
Module 9 - Supporting the Wrists, Hands, and Elbows

Reading for this module: pages 157 - 176
Total video run time for this module is 15 minutes.
Lesson 9.1 - Breaking the Pattern of Hyperextension
Lesson 9.2 - Teaching Upward Dog
Lesson 9.3 - Hyperextension vs. Carrying Angle of the Elbows
Lesson 9.4 - Teaching Side Plank
Module 10 - Realigning the Neck and Head

Reading for this module: pages 177 - 209
Total video run time for this module is 25 minutes.
Lesson 10.1 - Aligning the Head on Top of the Neck
Lesson 10.2 - Happy Necks in Triangle and Side Angle
Lesson 10.3 - Safety Issues in Shoulderstand and Plow
Lesson 10.4 - Practicing “L” Handstand at the Wall
Lesson 10.5 - Ideas for Teaching Shavasana in the Gym

Teach safer mixed level classes.
Keep students interested in your teaching by changing your cueing.
Modify the basic poses for varying body types.
Help students safely determine their natural limitations due to anatomical differences.
Answer the many questions students frequently ask after class.
Be confident choosing your own words (rather than scripts) and be your true self while teaching.
And much, much, more!