I’ve been deep in the trenches building my 300-hour online yoga teacher training, and in the middle of all that, something really important clicked for me about sequencing. I realized that as a yoga world, we may have built sequencing completely backwards. We often start with themes, peak poses, or class structures, but in doing so, we skip over the most essential skill of all: truly understanding the pose itself.
This episode is an invitation to start thinking in terms of pose literacy. Pose literacy goes far beyond alignment. It’s about understanding what a pose is doing physically, energetically, neurologically, and contextually, and how that understanding informs smarter, clearer, and more ethical sequencing. When teachers lack pose literacy, sequencing turns into guesswork, novelty for novelty’s sake, or overly crowded classes that look creative but don’t always land.
I walk you through how I approach pose literacy inside my Sequence Smarter framework and give you a detailed breakdown of Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward-Facing Dog) as a real example. My hope is that this helps you shift from building sequences as lists of poses to seeing poses as relationships, and from there, teaching becomes more grounded, confident, and sustainable.