Yoga Teacher Lab: Sustainable Sequencing

Great sequencing isn't about knowing more poses. It's about asking better questions.

Learn the framework that helps you create intentional, anatomy-informed classes that begin with people, not poses.

If you've ever felt unsure in your sequencing, you're not alone.

Most of us were taught to sequence by collecting poses:

Add a few hip openers to a hips class.
Add a peak pose because that's what makes a class interesting.
Follow a familiar formula so the class "makes sense."

And while that can work, many teachers start feeling the gap:

The sequence looks good on paper, but doesn't feel good in the body.
You spend hours planning classes and still second-guessing your choices.
You feel pressure to constantly create something new instead of trusting what you already know.

And then what do you do as a yoga teacher?

You already know the poses.

As a yoga teacher, you've spent time practicing, teaching, and developing an understanding of movement.

What elevates your sequencing isn't adding more complexity.

It's learning to ask better questions.

Great sequencing isn't about creating the longest, most creative, or most impressive class. It's about creating a class that makes sense for the humans who are actually in front of you.

In this Lab, you'll learn the Heart + Bones approach to Sustainable Sequencing:

A practical framework that combines anatomy-informed movement, teaching intention, and student experience to help you create classes with more clarity and confidence.

You'll move beyond rigid formulas and "what pose comes next?" thinking and develop a process that allows you to make thoughtful sequencing decisions for any class, theme, or group of students.

Inside the Lab

Instead of guessing, second-guessing, or relying on inherited formulas…

You’ll have a clear understanding to guide your teaching, one that supports your students’ nervous systems and your own.

Move + Learn

Rooted in our signature Move + Learn approach, you'll start with the body and learn through movement. Then we move into discussion and learn the theory behind the practice.

The lab offers three different classes to move and learn with. Each class gives you a broader understanding of how the nervous system can be supported beyond gentle or restorative classes. With a simple, repeatable framework, you'll bring these principles into your own teaching right away.

How it Works

You start with our three-step process.

Embody the practice, so you’re not just intellectualizing about the nervous system, you’re feeling it in real time. You get to be a student to feel in your own body the various ways to make a class feel supportive.

From Practice to Theory: Understand the why behind the class and sequences. Brea Johnson, founder of Heart + Bones Yoga, will guide you and discuss how each class was sequenced, cued, and paced—and how those decisions shape the student experience. You'll get worksheets and prompts to help deepen your understanding.

Back to Practice. After exploring in detail each of the three classes, you'll go back to the classes once more to anchor the knowledge back into your body. You'll be amazed at how the same class will feel new when you move and integrate your new learning.

After this lab, you’ll:

Feel more confident in your decisions (not just following sequences)
Teach classes that feel more supportive and accessible to a wider range of bodies
Use simpler, clearer cueing that reduces overwhelm
Create a better balance of effort and ease
Know how to adjust in real time based on what’s happening in the room
Feel less pressure to “get it right”—and more trust in your teaching

You don’t need to overhaul your teaching, you just need a different lens. Let's get started!

Stop searching for the perfect sequence.

Start trusting your process. Are you ready?