Yoga Sequencing: Designing Transformative Yoga Classes

The yoga teacher’s guide to planning and sequencing yoga classes--with over 2,000 instructional photos and 67 yoga pose sequences for students of all skill levels.

Also features additional resources, including yoga class planning worksheets, comprehensive glossaries, and much more!

Addressing one of the most popular topics in the yoga profession, this book offers 67 model sequences of yoga poses (asanas) that cover the broad range of yoga student experience. Inside, established and aspiring yoga teachers will find:

- Over 2,000 instructional photos and guide to over 150 yoga asanas
- Multiple sequences for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students
- Yoga sequences for kids, teens, seniors, and women across their life cycle
- Yoga classes designed for relieving depression and anxiety
- Sequences for each of the major chakras and ayurvedic constitutions
- Guidance for teaching breathing (pranayama) and meditation techniques
- Glossary of terms and alphabetical asana index with thumbnail photographs
- Yoga class planning worksheets
- Representative sequences from several popular styles of hatha yoga
- And many more resources for further reading!

Drawing on ancient yoga philosophy and contemporary insights into functional anatomy, biomechanics, and kinesiology, Yoga Sequencing is the ultimate guide teachers looking to bring the transformative power of yoga into their practice and classes.

Mark Stephens took his first formal yoga classes in 1991, completed his initial yoga teacher training in 1995, and began teaching yoga in 1996. In 1997, he founded Yoga Inside Foundation, establishing yoga programs and training yoga teachers for service in over 300 treatment centers, schools, hospitals, prisons, and other settings across North America. He received Yoga Journal’s first Annual Karma Yoga Award for his nonprofit work in 2000. Stephens has founded and directed two yoga studios, L.A. Yoga Center and Santa Cruz Yoga, and has taught workshops and retreats worldwide, including outdoor adventure retreats combined with sea kayaking, trekking, skiing, and rock climbing. He returned to his native Santa Cruz in 2004, where he teaches classes, workshops, and teacher trainings at Santa Cruz Yoga.