There’s a particular kind of dread a lot of us know well. It’s Sunday night, tomorrow’s class still isn’t planned, and you’re staring at a blank page wondering what on earth you’re going to teach. One week you overthink every pose, every transition, every word . . . and the next week you walk in and wing it.
I call that the planning-confidence cycle, and I built a whole six-month program to get yoga teachers out of it. It’s called Mastering the Art of Yoga Sequencing—MMM, for short. On Tuesday, I gave a full open-house tour of it, and you can watch the whole thing:
The planning-confidence cycle (and why willpower won’t fix it)
If you’ve been swinging between over-planning and winging it, the problem usually isn’t you. It’s that you’re starting from a blank page every single week. Overthinking is what happens when you don’t have a container at all—every choice feels infinite, so you agonize over all of them. Give yourself a structure you can trust, and most of that agonizing simply goes away.
The two frameworks every MMM class runs on
The whole program rests on two frameworks that work together.
The 6–4–2 framework
The 6–4–2 framework is your reliable container: six moves of the spine (forward, back, side to side, and round and round), four lines of the legs (front, back, inside, outside), and two core actions (stabilization and articulation). These are the macronutrients of movement. When each quarter of your class hits those targets, the body moves safely and completely—and your students feel the balance, even if they couldn’t name it.
The S.E.R.V.E. Method
If 6–4–2 is the recipe card, the S.E.R.V.E. Method is how you cook with it:
- S—Structure your foundation with 6–4–2.
- E—Experience the sequence in your own body before you ever teach it.
- R—Repeat with purpose, teaching one base structure for a month with intentional variation.
- V—Vary with intention for the students actually in front of you.
- E—Evolve your voice as you move from following recipes to creating your own.
That R is the one that changes everything. Repetition—not novelty—is what your students actually want, and it’s what frees you to stop scrambling and start seeing the room.
What’s actually inside (the kitchen tour)
MMM is, effectively, culinary school for yoga teachers, and the tour walks through the whole kitchen:
- The Recipe Box. Every month you get a thoughtfully designed core lesson plan, labeled with its 6–4–2 structure and stocked with variation ideas. You’re never planning from scratch—you open the box and choose your ingredients.
- The Movement Library. More than 200 follow-along videos, all built on 6–4–2, so you can practice a sequence as a student before you teach it.
- Two live calls a month. A Recipe Implementation call and an open Teacher’s Lounge, plus spaces to get my feedback and peer review on your actual teaching.
- The Prep Station, included. My lower-cost planning membership is baked right in.
The arc is simple: in the early months you teach my recipes, then you learn to adapt them, and finally you create your own. Line cook to chef.
Who MMM is for (and who it isn’t)
MMM is for you if you’ve completed a 200-hour training, you’re actively teaching, and you’re tired of planning from scratch—you want a system you trust more than another certificate. It’s not the right fit if you haven’t done your 200-hour training yet, or if you’re a longtime veteran who has already found your groove. The time commitment is not outrageous: about an hour or two a week, on your phone or your desktop, on your own schedule.
Your next step
Here’s the question I’d ask if we were talking it over coffee: where do you want to be six months from now? Still agonizing over tomorrow’s class—or working from a recipe box, walking in knowing the sequence will land?
If it’s the second one, come take your seat. The July cohort starts July 1, and enrollment is open now.
