3 Ways to Improve Your Power Vinyasa Yoga Classes

Are you feeling stuck in your teaching?

Whether you just graduated from a yoga teacher training program, or you have been teaching for a while, it’s easy to get stuck or lose inspiration.

Here are 3 simple ways you can show up to teach feeling more confident and excited about your classes.

3 Ways to Improve Your Power Vinyasa Yoga Classes

1. Find a balance between creating a plan and surrendering your desire to control the outcome. Some of your greatest classes will evolve out of something spontaneous that happens in class. It could be a student who needs a modification, so you slow down and do a workshop-style section of class on a peak pose. Or it could be realizing that the group you’re teaching is more advanced than you expected, so you offer an inversion or arm balance that you’re confident about. While it’s great to show up with a plan, sometimes you also need to be able to completely let go of the plan and allow the class to unfold organically in the moment, based on what your students need.

2. Teach from the heart and from where you are in this moment. What are you struggling with right now? What can you speak authentically about in class? Be honest with your students. Chances are, they can relate.

3. Focus on your self care. Are you feeling burned out? Spread thin? Are there too many things on your schedule and not enough down time? Overwhelm makes it difficult to hold space or teach yoga. Make it a priority to fill your cup, and you’ll show up feeling refreshed and ready to share with your students.

Here’s a sample of how you might outline your next power vinyasa yoga class.

Integration: 2 minutes

• Child’s pose

• Downward facing dog

• Forward fold

Awakening: 8 minutes

• Sun Salutation A

• Sun Salutation B (adding Chair pose and Warrior 1)

Vitality: 5 minutes

• Crescent Lunge

• Revolving Crescent Lunge

• Extended Side Angle

• Side Plank

• Prayer Twist

• Gorilla

• Crow pose

Equanimity: 5 minutes

• Eagle pose

• Standing Leg Raise (front and side)

• Airplane

• Dancer’s Pose

• Tree pose

Grounding: 5 minutes

• Triangle

• Twisting Triangle

• Standing Straddle Bend

• Namaste Forward Bend

Igniting: 8 minutes

• Locust

• Bow

• Camel

• Bridge

• Wheel

• Supta Baddha Konasana

Stability (Core): 3 minutes

• Scissor Legs

• Abdominal Twists

• Boat

Rejuvenation: 5 minutes

• Shoulder stand

• Plow

• Deaf Man’s pose

Opening: 8 minutes

• Half Pigeon

• Double Pigeon

• Frog

Release (Forward Bending): 5 minutes

• Seated Leg Extension

• Seated Forward Bend

• Tabletop

• Fish

Deep Rest: 5 minutes

• Shavasana

Close: 1 minute

More inspiration for your power Vinyasa yoga classes:

• Breath cues for Baptiste power yoga classes

• How to cue students safely in yoga

• Timing your power yoga class

Need more help with your classes? The Power Yoga Script is a great tool.

Power Yoga Script

$39.99

Calling all new yoga teachers! Are you ready to teach a badass power yoga class?! This script can help you improve your cues, build your confidence, and discover the sequencing and pacing that will define your unique style as a teacher. A great tool for transitioning from your yoga teacher training into any environment where you are leading classes, whether that’s a studio, gym, corporate setting, or private classes.

If you are struggling to remember what to say when you teach, or you’re having trouble guiding students from pose to pose, this script can help. The Power Yoga Script breaks down exactly what verbs and cue details to use as you teach. Are there fears or insecurities holding you back? Are you comparing yourself to other yoga teachers instead of letting your voice be heard? Explore the big questions behind how and why you teach using this helpful guide.

The sequencing follows the Baptiste methodology including the following sections: Integration, Awakening, Vitality, Equanimity, Grounding, Igniting, Stability, Opening, Release, Rejuvenation and Deep Rest.

This 48-page script includes:

• Introductions

• Warm ups

• Sun salutations

• Warrior poses

• Balancing poses

• Triangle series

• Backbending

• Abs and core work

• Hips

• Forward bending

• Inversions

• Cool down and shavasana

There’s also space for you to plan out a class and write out all the cues you’ll use to guide students safely through the poses, plus a list of questions to help you discover where you’re feeling stuck.

Precise cues, smart sequencing, and ideas for how to start and end the class in an engaging and authentic way. Walk into class feeling empowered and prepared to deliver a kick-ass yoga experience to your students.

Take your teaching from basic to badass with this power yoga script.

Here’s what yoga teachers are saying about the POWER YOGA SCRIPT:

“This definitely helped me improve my flow with teaching asana after my teacher training.” -Donita, Vinyasa yoga teacher

”I love how you laid this script out. I felt confused and scattered as I was working on my classes and this helped me save time in the process. Thank you!” -Keyla, yin yoga teacher

“I’ll be honest: when I got done with my 200-hour training, I felt totally lost. I mean, my trainers went over all the poses but as soon as I’d get in front of the room, the words just weren’t there. I felt so stuck. This book helped me build my confidence and doing some memorization so I wasn’t always so terrified to teach.” -Beth, power vinyasa teacher