Do Yoga Teachers Really Have a Plan?

Have you ever been to a class where it feels like the teacher just rocked up to their mat with a scribble on a bit of paper and winged their way through it? 

There's a lot to be said for allowing the body to lead the movement wherever it wants to go. But as a Yoga teacher, I tend to have a little more methodology which I think serves students well. So I plan my yearly schedules and classes on the basis of five broad teaching objectives. Of course, I hope they're apparent in students' experience of a class but this year I thought I'd share them more overtly with you! Classes are planned on the basis that I want anyone who walks into any one of my classes to:

• Feel confident moving in their everyday life by improving the quality of their movement

• Feel a physical progression in their practice - getting stronger, more mobile, gaining confidence to challenge themselves

• Feel that they can trust their bodies

• Feel an improvement in their focus and self-compassion through sensory awareness and mind-body connection

• Leave a class feeling more balanced than when they arrived

I appreciate my goals don't always align with everyone else's - some people prefer a more spiritual approach, others are more focussed on aesthetics - and so there are lots of teachers out there to suit everyone's own personal needs. But if any of that sounds like something that you want to get out of a class and more broadly out of life then I hope you'll find it in one of my classes and workshops! 

Lorna x