What is a Yoga Script?
/What is a yoga script, anyway?
A yoga script is a tool for new yoga teachers to build their confidence. It’s a tool to give them the exact words to say when teaching a class, while they’re new to the art of teaching yoga. It’s a resource to help anyone who needs it feel more empowered while teaching.
A yoga script is a transcript of everything to say when you are teaching. It’s a step-by-step list of all the words you can use to guide students into and out of each pose.
If you search “yoga script” online, you’re likely to find scripts for yoga nidra, a type of deeply relaxing meditation. This style of meditation moves methodically through the body, inviting progressive relaxation. Because the order of operations is so specific, it helps to have a script that can be read from so you don’t get lost on where you are in the sequence.
But what about for a regular yoga class, like with Vinyasa poses?
A script can help with that, too! It can help you track exactly where you are in a class, what cues to say, how to pace the class, and what to say when you start and finish.
WHY ARE YOGA SCRIPTS HELPFUL?
A yoga script can help you build confidence. It gives you a mechanism and a strategy to teach better classes more quickly, and to get a solid foundational class under your belt.
The main reason I became interested in yoga scripts and how they can help yoga teachers is because in my early days of teaching, I struggled. I felt so nervous before class that I would sometimes forget what to say, or feel flustered. In this way, I wasn’t showing up at my best and I couldn’t help my students as much as I wanted to. I remember one of the most useful practices in order for me to build more confidence and find my words more easily was to repeat the sequence to myself over and over in the car while I was driving. This repetition was essential for me.
A yoga script essentially offers you that repetition in a helpful format that improves learning and helps you memorize. Once you have that foundation, you can build from there and get more creative with your words and your sequencing.
IS USING A YOGA SCRIPT ‘CHEATING’ WHEN IT COMES TO TEACHING YOGA? HOW CAN I FIND MY OWN VOICE IF I’M JUST USING SOMEONE ELSE’S WORDS?
I think this is a valid consideration. But I believe that sometimes we need tools to move through challenges. The goal with a yoga script isn’t to completely rely on the printed words forever. In fact, many teachers who use a yoga script don’t use it for very long. Say you were struggling with a lack of confidence. You could read from the yoga script while you’re at home, during commercial breaks while you’re watching your favorite TV show. You could go to the park and sit quietly, do your meditation, then read a few pages of the script while you’re in a calm state. You might use a yoga script simply to give your mind something positive to focus on when it comes to your teaching.
Using the script while being kind to yourself is a great practice. Trusting the process, knowing this won’t always be the way you teach but that it’s giving you a solid foundation to work from.
Sometimes we need the confidence first— then the courage helps us find our words.
WHAT EXACTLY DOES IT SAY IN A YOGA SCRIPT?
A yoga script gives you the exact words to say during a class. For example:
How to introduce yourself when you first come into the room. (Short version and long version of this)
How to cue students during a pose, meaning how to instruct them on alignment of the spine, placement of the hands and feet, and what to concentrate on
Breath cues — when to inhale and when to exhale
Transitions between sections of class, whether through a Vinyasa or a pose like Child’s Pose
What to say during Savasana, including short meditations
What to say when you finish class and send students on their way
Teach yoga with confidence using the Power Yoga Script!
This yoga class script PDF is a full guide that details exactly what to say for your next class, start to finish.
Ideas for how to start yoga class as a teacher
What to say during Savasana at the end of yoga class
Precise cues for over 50 poses included in a Power Vinyasa Sequence
Sanskrit posture names including phonetic spelling for how to pronounce them
This 45-page document includes detailed instructions for how to cue yoga poses and can be modified to create a:
60 minute yoga sequence script
75 minute yoga sequence script
or even a 90 minute yoga sequence scripts
If you’re struggling with yoga sequencing or yoga sequencing lesson plans, this script is for you.
This yoga class script can help you improve your cues, build your confidence, and discover the sequencing and pacing that will define your unique style as a teacher. Transition smoothly from yoga teacher training (YTT) into any teaching environment.
The sequencing follows the Baptiste power vinyasa yoga methodology including the following sections:
Integration (Presence)
Awakening (Sun Salutations)
Vitality (Warrior Series)
Equanimity (Balance Series)
Grounding (Triangle Series)
Igniting (Backbending Series)
Stability (Abdominal Series)
Opening (Hip Series)
Release (Forward Bending Series)
Rejuvenation (Inversion Series)
Deep Rest (Surrender to Gravity Series)
The yoga class teaching script includes:
Introductions
Warm ups
Sun salutations
Warrior poses
Balancing poses
Triangle series
Backbending
Abs and core work
Hips
Forward bending
Inversions
Cool down and savasana
Precise cues, smart sequencing, and ideas for how to start and end the class in an engaging and authentic way. Walk into class feeling empowered and prepared to deliver a kick-ass yoga experience to your students.
Here’s what yoga teachers are saying about the POWER YOGA SCRIPT:
“This definitely helped me improve my flow with teaching asana after my teacher training.” -Donita, Vinyasa yoga teacher
”I love how you laid this script out. I felt confused and scattered as I was working on my classes and this helped me save time in the process. Thank you!” -Keyla, yin yoga teacher
“I’ll be honest: when I got done with my 200-hour training, I felt totally lost. I mean, my trainers went over all the poses but as soon as I’d get in front of the room, the words just weren’t there. I felt so stuck. This book helped me build my confidence and doing some memorization so I wasn’t always so terrified to teach.” -Beth, power vinyasa teacher
A Yoga Class Script PDF Can Become Your Secret Superpower
The resources on this page are designed to help you boost your confidence and find your teaching groove. Written out of my 10+ years of experience teaching Vinyasa yoga, these e-books and yoga teaching scripts are designed to help you move past the initial ‘what am I doing?!’ stage and into feeling excited, grounded, creative and motivated when you teach.
Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel every time you teach a class, get one basic class under your belt and be prepared to teach it anywhere, any time!
