Free Yoga Practice Tracker: Printable Handout for Your Students

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Yoga Practice Tracker Game: 5 Step Formula For Turning A Home Yoga Practice From A Difficult Discipline into A Fun Game That Your Students Will Love

In this post, you’ll discover my five step formula for turning a home yoga practice from a difficult discipline into a fun game that your students will love.

My name is George Watts.

I’m a BWY yoga teacher and have taught 800+ classes in the last 15 years.

I hope you’ve been enjoying the hundreds of free yoga class planning tips, ready-to-use yoga class plans, and yoga class handouts on my site. They are resources that I’ve personally used for my own yoga classes.

What is the Yoga Practice Tracker Game?

Let’s find out…

Yoga Practice Tracker Game

The holy grail for all yoga teachers is for their students to do a daily yoga practice at home.

The sad reality, however, is that a daily yoga practice is about as rare as a Big Foot sighting (part ape, part human creature that is said to inhabit forests in the Pacific Northwest). That is why I created the Yoga Practice Tracker.

The Yoga Practice Tracker is a game that will turn a hard to follow, disciplined daily yoga practice into a fun game. It’s the best yogic invention since sliced yoga bread.

Ready?

Let’s play.

Here are the 5 steps to play the Yoga Practice Tracker game…

Step 1: Give Your Students A Personalised Folder

If you want to go the extra mile for your students, give them a fancy presentation ring binder and insert a cover with your student’s name and your yoga class details (you can get the cover I use as a bonus when you get the Online Yoga Lesson Planner).

The student folder will act as a gigantic business card.

But that’s not the best part.

The student folder shows that their yoga teacher goes above and beyond for them. Less than one percent of yoga teachers will be giving their students a personalised student folder! Going above and beyond for your students breeds loyalty to your class. If there are several yoga classes in the area, they’ll keep coming to your class because you give them handouts that they can put in their folder.

The folder makes your students feel special. After all, you’ve given them a special yogic gift, and it’s not even their birthday!

Step 2: Download & Print The Yoga Practice Tracker & You’re A Star Certificate

Download and print out the Yoga Practice Tracker and You’re A Star Certificate (see below), then ask your students to place it in the front of their sleek, new presentation ring binders.

Click here to download the Yoga Practice Tracker (MS word & PDF)

Or you can download them as images (see below).

Here’s the Yoga Practice Tracker…

Yoga Practice Tracker Handout

And here’s the You’re A Star Certificate…

You’re A Star Certificate

Step 3: Best Game Ever

Within seconds of handing out the Yoga Practice Tracker, for your students to put in their folder, say with feeling and great gusto something like:

“The reason why this Yoga Practice Tracker is the best game ever invented is because it will turn a daily yoga practice from a difficult discipline into a fun game.“

Step 4: Explain The Game

Now, you’ve got them all excited about the Yoga Practice Tracker, it’s time to explain how the game works.

The game is as easy as A–B–C–D.

(A) Ask your students to open their student folder, go to their Yoga Practice Tracker handout and draw their first star which will be in the Week 1 Day 1 box (provide pencils or pens).

This will be a very easy first step for your students, and provide a quick win. This quick win is very important.

Giving an easy win early on in a game is what all successful games do. As we all know, the hardest step is always the first one. So, make the first step ridiculously easy. All they have to do is draw a star.

(B) Immediately after they’ve drawn their star, tell them that they absolutely must let out a silent (or loud) whoop of joy.

(C) Explain the point system by saying something like:

“At the beginning of this 6 week yoga course everyone is in the black hole. The more home practices you do, the brighter your Inner Light becomes.

If you do a yoga practice every day for 6 weeks, you get 42 points and will become a Supernova Star Warrior. Nothing in the Universe shines more brightly than a supernova.

Your 6 classes with me count as 6 points. So, with your 6 class points in the bag, all you need are 36 points to become a Supernova Star Warrior.

Oh yes, I almost forgot.

There is a special prize at the end for the students with the most stars.”

(D) It’s important to say that you, the yoga teacher, will also be playing the Yoga Practice Tracer game as well. Knowing that their yoga teacher is also playing will provide your student’s with extra motivation to keep playing through the entire 6 week course.

You could up the ante by saying something like:

“If anyone has more daily practices than me (maximum is 42), you get the next 6 week course for free.”

This has the added bonus of giving you a whole load of positive motivation to do your “daily practice“. It adds that important ingredient of successful games – curiosity and intrigue. Subconsciously your students will be thinking…

“Can I beat my yoga teacher? Can I get a free 6 week course?”

Step 5: Awards

Ask your students to add up their points at the end of your 6 week yoga course and put the total in the Total Points Box.

Handout the “You’re A Star” certificate (see download above) to the “Stars” and “Supernova Stars”. The ones who don’t receive an award will be more motivated during your next 6 week course to get it. Trust me, they will.

You may think your “adult students” won’t be motivated by this game. But that fact is that even adults love games, even your serious, yogic adults! After all, we all need a little fun in our busy, hectic lives.

It’s time for my conclusion, and why I love using yoga card decks as teaching aids in my classes.

George’s Conclusion: Using Yoga Card Decks As Fun, Easy-to-Use Teaching Aids

George's Conclusion

I hope this post gave you a new yoga teaching tool to inspire your students.

If you’re a fellow yoga teacher, I’ve got a hunch you’re gonna love my Online Yoga Lesson Planner.

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