Yoga course planning can be daunting. All yoga teachers sometimes experience creative blocks when lesson planning. You might find yourself sitting at your desk, chewing your pencil, and agonising over how to create the perfect class experience for your students. Or at other times you find your mind is so filled with ideas that you feel overwhelmed and don't know where to start. In this lesson I'd like to share with you two methods that I find always get my creative juices flowing and help me to generate inspiring ideas for yoga lesson plans.

When I'm planning a yoga day, or a course, or a themed class, my first step is to do a ten-minute walking meditation. While I walk I turn over ideas for the yoga session in my mind. I usually follow this with a fifteen-minute writing meditation. For fifteen minutes I keep my pen glued to the paper and write down any ideas that come into my mind. It doesn't matter how bizarre the ideas are, they all get written down on paper. I find the walking and writing meditations are a failsafe way to unlock my imagination. Later I will construct a more formal lesson/course plan based on these initial ideas.

Below are two files for you to download that explain walking meditation and writing meditation in more detail. The excerpts are from my Chakras for Creativity book. Read through them and consider whether you would like to integrate these meditations into your own course planning routine, freeing up your creative lesson planning potential.