Conversations on the Craft of Teaching
By Jason Crandell
If teaching yoga gets easier with experience, I’m still waiting. After more than 25 years of teaching, you’d think I’d have fewer questions by now. I don’t.
I still wonder how to create yoga sequences that help students progress over time. Or how to adapt my teaching as my students—and my own practice—changes. How can I balance alignment, anatomy, accessibility, and creativity?
If you are interested in exploring these questions for yourself and your students, you won’t want to miss The Teacher’s Forum, Conversations on the Craft of Teaching, my new ongoing series on Glo.
A Place for Support, Conversation, and Curiosity
The Teacher’s Forum is a quarterly live gathering devoted to the craft and practice of teaching yoga. We’ll explore topics including sequencing, teaching methodology, alignment and anatomy, class design, adapting practice, and developing greater discernment as teachers and practitioners.
Each session will begin with a focused presentation, followed by live Q&A and conversation. The goal is to create a place where we can examine not only what we teach, but why we teach it. It will be a space to talk openly about the questions that emerge through years of practicing and teaching.
*For yoga teachers, participation in The Teacher’s Forum counts toward professional development hours.
Not a Teacher? You’re Welcome Too.
Despite the name, The Teacher’s Forum isn’t exclusively for professional yoga teachers.
Aspiring teachers and curious practitioners are welcome too. Understanding sequencing, anatomy, alignment, and the reasoning behind different approaches to yoga can help you become a more informed and independent practitioner.
First Forum: Beyond the Single Class
Our first live Teacher’s Forum: Sequencing Beyond the Single Class is September 16 at 9 a.m. PDT.
Beyond the Single Class: Sequence Weeks, Not Minutes
We’ll explore how sequencing across multiple classes and weeks can support student development, learning, and engagement.
Traditionally, yoga was taught within an ongoing teacher-student relationship: a teacher could expect a student to return and could therefore design each practice as part of a larger curriculum, with skills and understanding developing over time.
Today, students often move between teachers and drop in and out of classes, which means we may know very little about what they practiced before arriving, or what they’ll practice next. While this creates certain limitations, it also presents an opportunity. By thinking beyond the individual class, developing a longer-term curriculum, and communicating that larger arc to our students, we can give them a reason to return and a clearer sense of where their practice is going.
This approach can support deeper student development and engagement while creating a more intentional and sustainable way to teach.
We’ll finish with an extended live Q&A, so bring your questions, your journals, your experience, and your curiosity.
Whether you’re an experienced yoga teacher, an aspiring teacher, or a practitioner who simply wants to understand yoga more deeply, I hope you’ll join me.
Teaching is a practice too. Let’s keep learning together.
