Creative and Intelligent Sequencing for Yoga Teachers
Master the art of sequencing intelligent and accessible yoga classes. Elevate your teaching skills and inspire your students with creative progression strategies.
Creative and Intelligent Sequencing for yoga teachers
Empower your teaching. Inspire your students. Deepen your practice.
Are you ready to move beyond cookie-cutter classes and step into your full potential as a yoga teacher?
Creative & Intelligent Sequencing for Yoga Teachers is a 3 hour master class designed specifically for recently certified yoga teachers and those looking to build confidence, creativity, and clarity in their class planning. This master class will help you design purposeful, progressive, and inspiring sequences that not only challenge the body but also speak to the heart of yoga.
You’ll learn how to:
Build intelligent sequences that safely prepare students for more challenging postures
Structure classes that progress organically, both within a single class and across multiple weeks
Offer meaningful options and modifications for all levels, helping students feel safe and successful
Support students to feel stronger, more capable, and more connected—on and off the mat
Teach with intention, confidence, and authenticity, rooted in the philosophy and essence of yoga
Whether you're teaching in studios, online, or to private clients, this masterclass gives you the tools to:
Break free from rigid class templates
Design creative transitions and thematic arcs
Empower your students with clarity, care, and depth
✨ This masterclass is more than sequencing—it’s about teaching from your whole self, inspiring others through your creativity, and honoring the heart of yoga.
Masterclass timetable
Masterclass Timetable & Course Format Time: Sunday September 14th 3:00–6:00 PM via Zoom This three hour session is an immersive Masterclass designed to balance practice, breakdown, discussion, and creation. ✨ Masterclass Flow (3-Hour Format)
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3:00 – 3:45 PM | Practice Session We begin with a guided 45-minute class taught by your facilitator, exploring a creatively sequenced flow leading toward a key posture or family of shapes. This gives you the chance to experience the sequence in your body and notice how it feels from a student’s perspective.
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3:45 – 4:00 PM | Tea Break
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4:00 – 5:00 PM | Sequence Breakdown & Discussion We’ll break the class down pose by pose, discussing the intelligent structure behind it: What made this sequence effective? How did it prepare the body and mind? What options/modifications were offered and why? What themes or energetic threads were woven in? Expect lively discussion and opportunities to ask questions, reflect, and share.
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5:00 – 5:10 PM | Tea Break
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5:10 – 6:00 PM | Applied Creativity & Collaborative Design We’ll explore another posture or shape from the same family (e.g. another backbend or hip opener), then together: Discuss the different prep/counterpose needs Build a new class sequence as a group, applying the same principles Reflect on how the experience shifts when approaching the same goal differently You’ll walk away each week with two fully written class plans: The sequence you experienced and dissected A brand-new class designed collaboratively by the group
Your yoga teaching master class is led by....
Senior Yoga Teacher
Amelia Disspain
Director and senior yoga teacher at Yoga Bellingen
Co founder of Balanced Practice Yoga Teacher Training and Retreats Yoga Australia Senior Member, Yoga Alliance International Expert registered teacher 1500+
Amelia was first introduced to yoga in 1999. Inspired by the joy and serenity it brought her, Amelia began a regular practice before going on to complete her teacher training with Katie Manitsis (now Katie Rose)at Samadhi Bliss Yoga, Sydney in 2002.
Amelia taught Yoga full time at Samadhi Bliss until she was selected to undertake a one-on-one apprenticeship in 2006 with Simon Borg Olivier and Bianca Machliss of Yoga Synergy Sydney, one of the few schools left in Australia still instructing teachers in this traditional way.Both Bianca and Simon are members of the Australian Physiotherapists Association, and as such Amelias teaching integrates modern medical knowledge with the traditional forms and practices of Yoga.
Amelia taught as a senior level teacher at Yoga Synergy Sydney, instructing group classes from brand new beginners to advanced practitioners as well as private lessons, working with students with injuries and also training yoga instructors, until 2013 when she relocated to Bellingen There she opened her own studio, Yoga Bellingen.
Amelia’s classes are informed by her many years of yoga practice, teaching and study, her classes are inclusive and always incorporate the deeper teachings of Yoga. Amelia has continued to study Yoga philosophy, particularly concentrating on how we can integrate the tools of meditation and inner focus to recognize the patterns of our individual mind, and in so doing experience the joy hidden in everyday life. Amelia is currently enrolled in the Svastha Yoga Therapy Course
In 2015 Amelia co-founded Balanced Practice Yoga and co-teaches Yoga Teacher Training Courses and international retreats with her sister in Yoga, Liz Bennett a physiotherapist and yoga therapist and director of YogaEssentia in Warriewood.
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Yoga Therapist and Physiotherapist
Liz Bennett
Liz Bennett is the founder of Balanced Practice Yoga and A Balanced Practice Physiotherapy. Liz is one of the handful of physiotherapists in Australia who is also a specialised yoga therapist and a long term yoga teacher and practitioner of over 20 years.
Bringing together studies in eastern medicine and modern science, her classes are guided by her ability to apply an anatomical focus to the practice of yoga in an accessible and relevant way.
As a therapist, Liz integrates assessment and therapy with education and lifestyle changes, applying principles of individualised yoga, Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda.
Liz began training with Simon Borg Oliver and Bianca Machliss before she finished her physiotherapy degree in 1999. She completed a three year yoga teaching apprenticeship with Yoga Synergy in 2006, then a further 500 hours of teacher training at the Yoga Institute, where she delivered Leslie Kaminoff’s Yoga Anatomy course for several years. A Vipassana practitioner, and initiate of Vedic meditation, with Certificates in Shiatsu and Acupuncture and extensive Yoga Therapy studies with Ganesh Mohan of Svastha Yoga.
Liz's Yoga Anatomy Labs are sourced by Yoga Teachers Training courses around Australia. Liz runs Balanced Practice Yoga Teacher Trainings Amelia Disspain and together, they co-host popular yoga retreats in Australia and abroad.
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Creative & Intelligent Sequencing for Yoga Teachers
$90 AUD – Includes Live Masterclass, Certificate, Resources & Personal Feedback
This interactive and inspiring 3-hour masterclass is designed for yoga teachers and recent teacher training graduates who want to deepen their confidence and creativity in class planning.
You'll learn how to craft intelligent, purposeful sequences for challenging postures, explore progressive sequencing across a single class and multiple weeks, and offer meaningful options and modifications to support every student. We’ll move through a full 45-minute practice, then break it down pose by pose, unpacking the principles behind thoughtful sequencing — followed by a collaborative class creation session so you leave with two complete class plans and real-world skills you can apply immediately.
