One of the things that Asana Teachers struggle with the most is how to bring creativity into classes so the students but and especially us the teachers don't get bored. It is very easy to get stuck into the same patterns of flowing or dynamic of sequencing asanas, particularly when teaching so many classes per week.
Some years ago when I was teaching like 20 classes per week I ended up having the feeling that all my classes were the same, but it was always a surprise to find out my students found them diverse.
Then I started to pay more attention to what I was doing in each class. I was not really planning the sequences or the postures I was going to teach, and sometimes I had no plan at all. I realized I was always working a theme in my classes, which I was developing through the Asanas, I was also including a lot of elements intertwined with the yoga postures and usually the transitions I was using were influenced from my dance background.
After some observation into what I was doing, some structuring and classification of information I came to a self-developed method that was inspired in many elements I learned from my years as a dancer and as a choreographer, blended with the experience and knowledge coming from Yoga Practices and Philosophy. This started to take more shape and I started to use it for myself to make of my own practice something more creative and at the same time with more purpose than just the Asana itself to promote a deeper experience of self-observation and transformation. That's how the "Creative Sequencing Workshop" was born.
I taught this workshop for the first time in Costa Rica around two years ago, and since then, through self-exploration I have refined it into what became in the workshop I just taught in New Jersey two weeks ago.
I am very happy to have taken this method even deeper with my Balance Yoga Kula. We all had an amazing time exploring out of our comfort zone, allowing ourselves to incorporate elements, postures, practices and transitions we have never played with before, also allowing ourselves to explore and understand the diverse qualities of nature reflected into movement and shapes and how all of it relates with so many concepts that Yoga Philosophy gifts us with.