Why Yoga Teachers Should Think Like Educators: The Keys to Making Your Teaching Stick

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt like your students aren’t fully absorbing what you’re teaching? Want to make your cues, sequences, and insights truly stick? On this episode, Jason reveals the top teaching strategies every yoga instructor should know to enhance student learning, improve retention, and create transformative class experiences.

Highlights:

✅ The difference between leading a class vs. teaching for deep learning.

✅ How repetition & thematic sequencing improve student retention.

✅ Why students learn best by doing, seeing, and experiencing—not just hearing.

✅ How A/B testing in yoga poses helps students find what works best for them.

✅ The role of cognitive load in student learning—and why less is more when cueing.

✅ The surprising power of storytelling to make your teaching unforgettable.

💡 Whether you're a new yoga teacher or an experienced instructor looking to improve your teaching impact, this episode will help you develop smarter, more effective strategies to ensure your students truly absorb and retain what you teach.

🔗 Join the Pranayama Teacher Training Waitlist: jasonyoga.com/breathwork

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is Yoga Land.
0:12.5	Hi, Jason. Hi, Andrea.
0:14.4	It feels like it's been so long since we've done a straight up yoga land together.
0:18.7	Yeah, we've been kind of indulging in our yoga-ish episodes, which is good.
0:23.2	Yeah, it is good.
0:23.9	We've just needed to talk.
0:25.0	But this episode, we're going to dial in to a little bit more like structured,
0:30.2	official yoga-based conversation.
0:32.6	Yes.
0:33.1	Yeah.
0:33.3	And just so people know, people have been saying to you, I've noticed in your Instagram feed,
0:36.9	like, when is Yoga Land coming back?
0:38.4	I did just do an interview Yoga Land podcast with Reggie Hubbard. So please go back and listen to that if you're looking for an interview format as well. It's a great conversation.
0:48.3	Yeah. And the next six weeks, including this week, are going to be Yoga Land episodes because we're doing two series-based
0:54.6	pieces of content.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:56.3	We're going to do a two-part series beginning with this one right now, really about
1:00.9	implementing the most skillful educational strategies as yoga teachers and looking outside of the
1:08.5	yoga tradition to other educational fields to understand how
1:12.0	students learn best.
1:13.5	And then we're going to do a four-part pranayama deep dive to support and focus on the
1:21.0	buildup of my upcoming pranayama training.
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