How To Write Compelling Yoga Aims & Objectives: Yoga Lesson Planning

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My aim for this class is to:

• teach yoga using a chair.

By the end of the class students will be able to:

• Practice several chair yoga exercises.

• Discover the benefits of doing chair yoga in the office.

• Explain to their boss two or three reasons why all the staff should take several time-outs during the workday to do a few minutes of chair yoga (e.g. increase alertness, reduce sick days, save their backs).

My aim for this class is to:

• encourage the cultivation of a strong core.

By the end of the class students will be able to:

• Practice yoga poses that strengthen the core.

• Discover two or three benefits of strengthening their cores (e.g. take the pressure off their backs, keep spine young, reduce risk of heart attack)

• Indicate reasons why a Vegan diet would help strengthen their core (e.g. reduce belly fat, reduce the desire to keep eating because fiber makes you feel full quicker than processed foods, reduce risk of cancers, reduce the risk of dementia).

Overview: Palindromic rheumatism, Scheuermann’s disease, sciatica on the right side, broken ankle, elbow full of metal, right hip is deteriorating, anxiety.

Palindromic Rheumatism: consists of sudden and rapidly developing attacks of arthritis. There is acute pain, redness, swelling, and disability of one or multiple joints. The interval between recurrent attacks is extremely variable and how long the attack lasts is also variable.

Scheuermann’s disease: caused by the wedging together of several bones of the spine in a row. Symptoms include difficulty breathing, fatigue, mild back pain, round back appearance, tenderness, and stiffness in the spine.

Sciatica on the right side: If the pain shoots from the lower back, bring the leg in toward the groin on the side you are not experiencing sciatica. If it is located more in your buttocks, bring in the leg in which you experience the pain. If bringing one leg in still makes you suffer from the shooting nerve pain, avoid seated forward bends altogether.

My aim for this 60-minute one-on-one session is:

• to equip the student with knowledge of poses for arthritis.

A lesson plan should ideally only have one aim, but I could have been tempted to add several aims because he has so many health issues. But I kept with one aim. The client booked a pack of 6 one-on-one sessions with me. That way I could focus on one aim (e.g. poses for arthritis) per session, instead of having to cram in poses for all his health issues. That would have confused him, and me!

By the end of the session the student will be able to:

• Practice several poses for arthritis.
• Practice yogic breathing to help reduce anxiety about his arthritis
• Become more aware of what causes his arthritis pain to flare up

My aim for this class is to:

• teach poses that ease lower back pain.

By the end of the class students will be able to:

• Practice yoga poses that help strengthens the core muscles.

• Discover two or three benefits of strengthening their cores (take the pressure off their backs, keep spine young, and reduce risk of heart attack).

• Demonstrate why using a bolster and holding poses while supported on a bolster, can help strengthen the back, and ease lower back pain.