Yogaland Podcast10 Jan 2018

Clarify Your Purpose and Edit Yourself to Craft Effective Yoga Themes With Michelle Marchildon

This week’s podcast with author and yoga teacher Michelle Marchildon focuses on her formula for theming your yoga classes. The formula comes from her book, Themeweaver: Connect the Power of Inspiration to Teaching Yoga and is a clear, thorough approach to creating themes that are meaningful, not cheesy, and will help your students really deeply connect their physical practice to Michelle talks us through:

•The three types of students who come to class

•The four elements that make a good theme

•Theming don’ts

•Five rules for incorporating your themes into your classes

•How to organize your themes so that you can edit them and reuse them in the future

Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode85/

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