A viewer asked for this after watching how I plan a class in fifteen minutes: not the theory, but the worksheet itself, blank at the start and completely filled in by the end. So that’s the whole video—my Monday night class, planned in real time, no cuts. If you’d rather work alongside me than read about it, grab the free 6–4–2 worksheet, make your own copy, and fill in yours as I fill in mine. It works far better as a coworking session than a spectator sport!
A checklist, not a formula
If you’re new here, 6–4–2 is my framework for balanced movement: six moves of the spine, four lines of the legs, two core actions. I walked through where it came from and how it works in How to Structure a Yoga Class; the short version is that it’s a checklist, not a pose-counting formula. It never tells you what to teach. It only tells you what you forgot.
The class, not the abstraction
We never plan in the abstract, so the worksheet starts with the real room: format, length, and who actually shows up—not the class I wish I had, but the desk workers and runners and one complaining shoulder who roll out mats on Monday nights. From there the container goes in first, the opening and closing bookends that never change, and then one home base for the whole warmup, so nobody’s getting up and down before class has even started.
The check that catches what your creativity misses
This is my favorite part of the worksheet, and it’s the part I most wanted you to watch happen live: running the finished plan back through 6–4–2 and finding the hole in it. Tonight it was a twist. Flexion, extension, both side bends: all there. Rotation was nowhere in my standing work, twenty-plus years in and still my personal blind spot. One revolved lunge added, and the plan was measurably better in about ten seconds. That’s the entire job of a checklist: it holds the structure so your attention can stay on the people in the room instead of the moves you might be missing.
One worksheet, four weeks of classes
The bottom of the page is where the real time savings live: the same plan, taught once as written and then three more times with small, intentional swaps—a different standing pose, a new centering, a response to whatever you actually saw in week one. I wrote about the full version of this habit in Yoga Sequencing Lesson Plans: Build One Class, Teach It All Month, and it’s what took my planning time from hours to about fifteen minutes. If four-lines-of-the-legs balance checks are new territory for you, Why Your Students Wobble is a good next stop.
Try it yourself
Grab the free 6–4–2 worksheet and plan your own class alongside the video: it took us about fifteen minutes, and next month yours will take ten! And if you’d rather open a finished plan on the weeks when fifteen minutes still feels like too many, the Prep Station hands you a done-for-you, 6–4–2-checked lesson plan every week for $39 a month, plus a follow-along movement library of 200+ videos so you can try each sequence before you teach it.
