The skills of doing, being and noticing are continually being honed. When you teach yoga, you’re educating people, and helping them to refine their skills. More likely they are feeling their way through, and are probably more absorbed in what’s happening on a physical level, how they’re feeling in their body, and are likely to be thinking more in the moment about the asana that they’re currently doing rather than what happened last week. ![]() They’re generally not analysing your sequence and saying “Hey, this is the same as last week’s class.” Most yoga students are not thinking their way through the details of a yoga sequence. Our yoga students will appreciate having some repetition in the classes so that they can practice the actions of doing asana, cultivate somatic awareness, and be able to determine how they are progressing by noticing similarities or differences in their bodies compared to their previous practices. Do you remember writing “Aa” in your exercise book over and over again until it became second nature? How about learning a musical instrument? It’s all about doing the same things again and again, refining the skills as you go. Think about when you were very young and learning to write for the first time. Our brain makes comparisons between new information brought in through the senses, and existing information stored in our brain’s long-term memory. The process of repeating certain actions (either mentally or physically) strengthens the connections, or neural pathways in our brain. It’s a scientific fact that in order become good at any skill, we need to repeat the same actions over and over again. Who wants to sound like a broken record? As teachers we’re always wanting to be fresh and inspiring for our students, and it might feel like repeating the same class will give your students the idea that your range as a teacher is limited, or you’ve run out of juicy inspiration. Most teachers are fearful of sounding repetitive. Yoga teachers regularly ask me how often they should change their yoga class sequences, and whether it’s ok to teach the same sequence more than once. If I teach the same thing, will I sound repetitive and will my students get bored?.Is it ok to teach the same class twice in a row?.How do I keep my yoga class sequences fresh and inspiring?. ![]() Do you ever ask yourself these questions:
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