Why Your Yoga Class Feels Flat (and How to Fix It)
Does this sound familiar?
You’ve planned your yoga class. You’ve got a neat list of poses. But when you teach it, something feels…off.
The sequence doesn’t quite flow. Your students are polite, but you don’t get that sense of connection or depth.
It feels flat.
If you’ve ever walked away from teaching with that sinking feeling, “Was that even a good class?”, you’re not alone.
The real reason yoga classes fall flat
Most of us were trained to think:
Gather some poses
Put them in order
Add a theme or two
That might work once in a while. But without a clear framework, yoga classes often feel random. Students can sense it, even if they can’t explain why.
Flat classes usually come from one of three things:
Too many poses crammed in. More is not better.
No clear goal. If you don’t know what the practice is for, neither will your students.
Missing the right preparation and counterpose. A class might look fine on paper, but feel unbalanced in the body.
How to fix it (without hours of planning)
The key is to start with structure, not poses.
Try this:
Decide your goal for the practice. (E.g. grounding, opening the chest, calming the breath.)
Choose the counterpose(s) that balances the work needed for that goal.
Work backwards; add the preparation steps that genuinely lead to it.
Keep it simple. Fewer poses, more intention.
This way, your class has a direction. Students feel held in a process, not rushed through a list.
The surprising bonus
When you plan with structure, not only do your classes feel better for students, you save yourself time and stress. No more hours staring at a blank page. No more second-guessing every choice.
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