Each weekly lesson plan provides a template and a thorough teaching curriculum that models how to build the foundation for a yoga practice in a warm, informative way that is easy to digest and leaves your students hungry for more. 

These eight classes comprise the foundations course you’ll learn to teach by first becoming a student of the course and developing an embodied, experiential understanding of the material. The Inspiring Yoga Teacher shows you how to work in a pedagogic model of shared inquiry, unpacking what that means in terms of practice, language, cueing, pace, sequencing and hands-on adjustments.

By becoming a student of the shared inquiry teaching process in a dedicated, peer-group environment, you’ll learn how to help your students listen to their own bodies, honour their unique physical structure and make wise decisions about modifying, adapting or staying in a pose to suit their individual needs. Once learnt, they can apply these skills in any asana class. The series carefully builds a sequence of foundational asana, inquiries and practices that are the vehicles used to explore these fundamental skills.

The classes are structured to progressively flow from each other like a series of over-lapping waves. Each class informs the last class and acts as a springboard for the next one. You will explore structural alignment (how to set poses up) and engaged alignment (how to run force through those poses), with your breath as the backdrop and animating force from which all movement emerges.

Each class is structured so that it can be unpacked and expanded to serve you and your students. It includes accessible options that can be tailored for different age groups, abilities, injuries, energy levels, time of day and season of the year.

Classes are prop-light in deference to teachers who are working in gyms, church halls and other non-studio settings. They are aimed at a beginner-improver level, and based on class plans honed through teaching real people of all sizes, shapes and ages over a period of twenty years. In essence, they contain Lisa’s favourite play-lists for each theme. Together they offer you an extensive and eminently practical tool-kit.

You will receive an extensive manual to inform your learning, with clear explanations that address teaching methodology, choices and considerations. The manual contains detailed instructions for each asana as well as a reference guide for further learning and a glossary of terms.

'Each of us is an artist of our own days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.’

‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.’

Who will benefit from this series

What do I get?

Places on the live classes are limited!