How do you sequence your whole class? What is your secret recipe?

You know, I love cooking food. For me designing a class is similar to cooking a nutritious, healthy and balanced meal.

So, then how do I cook?

Here's what I do - Before I start cooking, I have an exact idea of how the dish shall look for the eyes, taste in the mouth and also how it shall feel as a complete experience. This knowing become the foundation for me. When I am ready to lead a session, I bring myself to a quiet place in mind and breath.

This invokes a feeling in my heart like a drop of nectar and the whole sequencing is to release it from my heart to the hearts practicing.

A drop holds the entire ocean and for me the feeling holds the entire sequence.

Here are 3 tips related to sequencing:

1. Rules: In order to come to the point of following the gut and feelings one has to first learn the logistics and rules of sequencing, just like in order to transcend rules first it is important to learn them properly.
2. 5 Movements: It is important to that a physical practice session includes 5 basic movements: Forward fold & Back bend, Twist, Lateral stretch, Contraction & Expansion and Inversion. Once we give these 5 main movements around the spine, it brings circulation, strength and flexibility to the entire body
3. Practice: In order to serve food without tasting you have to make it enough number of times to know the final result. There is no replacement to experience and self practice. Those two leads one to the place where one can confidently follow the gut, feeling and vision.

I like to keep my mind as an empty slate when I enter a class. Once I take a seat, I invoke the present of the lineage of realized beings in my heart and mentally say, " i am here but may you lead through me". At times stepping out of your own way helps.

Hope you enjoyed the secret recipe!

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