Shape, Safety and Refinement
Sequencing/
General Template
Pacing
Timings
Doable/Difficult, Demos and Adjustments
100
Define Refinement:
Refinement instructions ask students to stretch or move more deeply into a pose, enhance artistic expression, weave WOD, add beauty and personality to class
100
This movement portion of class comes first and lasts for 5-10 minutes of class.
What is the warm-up?
100
Pacing is the ____________ of yogahour.
What is the pulse?
100
In yogahour, we hold standing poses generally for this duration (seconds) of time:
What is 25-30 seconds?
100
There are four types of Demos in yogahour. They include:
What is 1. mirroring 2. key point 3. silent 4. stages of a pose
200
List 3 Key shape verbs:
What is place, put, bring, bend, lift, interlace, point, floint, stack, move, look, come, round, straighten, hold, turn, twist?
200
This portion of class comes after the warm-up and lasts 10-15 minutes
What is standing poses?
200
Yogahour ebbs and flows between 3 paces:
What is slow, still and fast?
200
In yogahour, each balancing standing pose is held for a shorter time than a standing pose. That duration of time is:
What is 15-25 seconds?
200
The demo itself must take no more than ___________ seconds.
What is 15-30 seconds?
300
List 3 Key safety verbs:
What is tone, tighten, engage, strengthen, squeeze, grip, flex, flaunt, press, tuck, pull, lock, drag, firm, ground, draw?
300
This section of class comes after the standing poses in the general template, but it can also be helpful to add this category after some hip openers.
What are arm balances?
300
Students must _____________. If they do not ________, it is not yogahour.
What is sweat?
300
Each Hip and Quad openers is held for this duration of time:
What is 15-45 seconds?
300
There are 7 bullet points in the manual for ways to make poses more doable or difficult.
What are props, modifications, stages, pacing, prep/pose, sweat factor, and say it again differently?
400
List 3 Key refinement verbs:
What is lengthen, press, reach, stretch, lift, extend, deepen, more, soften, notice, unclench?
400
This section of class on the general template can help prepare the body for backbends.
What are hip and quad openers?
400
The temperature is just one aspect of the sweat factor. There is a specific guideline for temperature environment in the yogahour classroom.
What is warm and humid?
400
Backbends are held for this amount of time:
What is 10-30 seconds?
400
In general, when giving individual instruction, move from the _______________ up.
What is the foundation?
500
When doing physical adjustments in yogahour, we first and foremost promote ______________ and _________________.
What is shape and safety?
500
This section comes right before savasana (final relaxation) on the general template.
What are forward folds and twists?
500
There is a wide range of the number of poses in a yogahour class. This depends a lot on pacing and difficulty of poses. The average yogahour class consists of this many poses:
What is 45-70?
500
Arm balances have the shortest window of timings. The duration of time each arm balance is held is:
What is 5-15 seconds?
500
It is often more effective to give __________ adjustments before making _________ adjustments.
What is verbal, physical?