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Yogaland Podcast

How to Plan a Month-Long Yoga Series: Teaching Beyond Individual Classes

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Looking for fresh ideas to keep your classes engaging and effective? In this episode of Yogaland, we’ll show you how to plan a month-long yoga series that helps your students build skills, gain confidence, and deepen their practice over time.


If you’re tired of planning classes one-by-one and want to teach more cohesively and effectively, this episode is for you! Whether you’re a new yoga teacher looking for guidance or an experienced teacher wanting to expand your teaching approach, you’ll learn simple, powerful strategies to take your classes to the next level.


Here’s what you’ll learn:

✅ Why a long-term approach to teaching helps students learn faster and retain more.

✅ How to structure a 4-week yoga series for consistent growth and progress.

✅ Practical ways to apply Thematic Sequencing to build skills week by week.

✅ How to use Scaffolded Learning to break down complex poses and techniques.

✅ Why revisiting concepts (Spaced Repetition) improves learning and confidence.

✅ What the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) means and how it applies to yoga.


Timecodes:

00:33 Upcoming Pranayama Course

01:12 London Yoga Retreat Announcement

04:31 Long-Term Yoga Class Planning

07:03 Thematic and Progressive Sequencing

19:42 Introduction to Vinyasa Class Structure

21:34 Teaching Skills Step-by-Step

26:00 Building Muscle Memory and Competence

26:53 The Importance of Scaffolding in Yoga

32:24 Spaced Repetition in Learning

34:40 Zone of Proximal Development

38:51 Encouraging Growth and Possibility

42:14 Recap and Conclusion


👉 Jason's newest course, Teaching Pranayama & Breathwork: A step-by-step guide for yoga teachers & students begins in April. Click here to join the waitlist: jasonyoga.com/breathwork


👉 Want to practice in-person with Jason? Join him in London June 9th-13th at Mission! To get all the details: https://www.mission-e1.com/london-retreat/



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0:00.0

Hey everyone. I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is Yoga Land. Hi, Jason. Hi, Andrea. Welcome back to Yoga Land

0:07.9

podcasts in a row. Yes. Well, there was another guest in between you. I just meant no yoga-ish.

0:15.8

It's coming back. It'll come back. But we're going to go deep dive.

0:19.8

Yes. Following up on our conversation from last week about educational principles for yoga teachers.

0:25.8

Yes.

0:26.3

We're going to talk about educational principles and how to plan a month-long yoga series, right?

0:32.3

Yes.

0:32.9

But I want to do some housekeeping first.

0:34.5

Yeah.

0:34.9

Because you've been working, you've been hard at work,

0:38.9

working your little tushy off on this pranayama course. I have. That's coming up. I have. And how's

0:44.6

it going? Super good. Good. Yeah, I'm really excited about it. I'm past the, oh my God, this is really

0:51.9

overwhelming phase. Yeah. You know, first you have the, this is going to be great.

0:56.0

I'm so excited. And then you have the, this is really daunting. This is a lot to create. And now I'm in

1:02.7

the very final segment of filming. So I'm feeling really good about it. I feel good about everything.

1:08.8

Good. Good, good, good. I'm excited about it. Yeah, me too.

1:11.1

And then you also just announced your first trip to London this year. So when is that? What's

1:17.3

going to happen? What you tell us all about it. Yeah, June 9th to June 13th. I am doing a London yoga

1:24.4

retreat. So this is for teachers, practitioners. We're essentially going to do an

1:29.5

urban retreat at Mission in London. And it's just the best studio. And we're going to practice in the

1:36.8

morning and the afternoon, nice long lunch, and I'm super excited about it. It's not like a conventional

1:42.3

retreat where we're, where we're all going to sleep in the same place.

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