Yoga Class Theme Ideas
Former Anusara teacher Christina Sell recently posted:
“Well, it seems like the trend is around class titles and so my workshops still have these class titles [ed: like “Myths, Metaphors, and Tales of Transformation” and “Exploring the Boundaries”] but soon there will come a day when the title just says, “Back bends” or “Forward bends” and my big plan is to be teaching more and more from an intensive perspective where students are there for the whole thing and the class title and content is incidental.”
I’d like to push this further. I propose a series of classes or practices that proceed from the imposition of a limitation (on space, props, time, etc.) To wit:
1. Yoga for a 3-D box whose sides are planes extending from the edges of the mat (so no poses that stretch beyond the boundaries of the mat)
2. A class or practice of poses that can all be performed on an airplane in the space typically available for stretching one’s legs in coach class
3. A class or practice of poses that can be performed on asphalt at a rest area using as props only items you are likely to have in your car
4. A class or practice of yoga for hotel rooms using as props only items that either a. most people pack (belt, books) or b. most hotel rooms have (phone book, weird throw blanket at bottom of bed)
5. Yoga in which the practitioner’s hands never touch anything (the ground, parts of the body)
6. Yoga in which the soles of the practitioner’s feet never touch anything else (the ground, parts of the body)
7. 1, 1.5, or 2 hours of yoga using only one prop (one block OR one strap OR one bolster OR one wall)
8. Ditto for yoga using as a prop only wall space is less than 4’ wide
9. A whole practice of poses in which one is always facing the floor
10. A whole practice of poses in which one is always facing the ceiling
What else?
