Creative Yoga Sequencing Teacher Training
with Charli Van NessSequencing is the architecture of a class and is an art form in its own right. Over three immersive days with Charli Van Ness, you'll gain the tools, framework and creative confidence to build sequences that flow.
Overview
A framework for creative freedom
When the shape of a practice is built with care with poses that connect, intentions that resonate and pacing that breathes, students can really embody what the teacher set out to share. When sequencing falters, even the warmest teaching can lose its thread.
Over three days with Charli Van Ness, you'll work with a clear framework for thinking about sequencing intelligently, alongside the freedom to play, experiment and find your own voice. Charli brings two decades of teaching, somatic exploration and creative movement into the room, and her approach to sequencing is shaped by everything from anatomy and acrobatics to sound, breath and intuitive flow. You'll explore mini-flows and embodied movement, learn how to layer for multi-level classes, and discover how to build toward a peak pose and gently return, all while keeping inclusivity, safety and anatomical integrity at the heart of your class.
This course is both theoretical and creative, practical and playful. By the end you'll have plenty of inspiration to build your own sequences alongside sample sequences to utilise and repurpose.
Take this as a stand-alone CPD, or count it toward your 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training.
"Some of the most profound sequences are born from life itself—an injury, a heartbreak, a season of growth or joy. When we stay open to listening, both inwardly and outwardly, we discover the wisdom to create movement that resonates, inspires, and becomes our own poetry in motion."
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- £150 deposit reserves your place. Save your bank details at checkout and the balance is taken automatically 21 days before the course starts.
- Hours count towards 300-hour certification or CPD hours.
- 300-hour students: 10% discount if you've booked 3 trainings (£395+) including one core module. Email us and the discount is applied when the balance is taken.
- Prefer a different payment plan? Pay your deposit and email us to arrange. Full payment must be received before the course starts.
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- Bursary available: one 50% bursary place is offered each year. Learn more →
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After this training, you will be...
A teacher with a clear, repeatable framework for building sequences, and the creative freedom to break from it when students need something else.
A teacher who can layer for multi-level classes, designing one sequence that accommodates beginners and experienced students with equal care.
A teacher fluent in transitions, peak poses and pacing, whose classes flow and unfold rather than feeling like linked together postures.
A teacher with a richer voice and an inspired toolkit who is equipped to keep classes alive, fresh and genuinely yours.
What Our Students Say
What our students say
"This sequencing course was transformational. I came away with new ways of organising and planning my classes – keeping them fresh, interesting, and genuinely targeted to the people I'm teaching. So many generously shared sequences and flows"
200-Hour Graduate"Such an amazing course – really worthwhile. It gave me a structure for all of my classes, plus loads of ideas for future sequences. I came away with a complete sequence of my own, and the learning environment was genuinely nurturing and supportive."
Sequencing Student"100% recommend this fascinating course. Well-paced, packed full of pertinent sequencing knowledge, and taught in great-sized chunks with passion and super-friendly support. I just loved it."
Sequencing Student"A fantastic yoga sequencing course with knowledgeable, kind and approachable teaching. The course has given me an extra sparkle in my teaching."
Sequencing Student"Clear, supportive teaching, full of wisdom – and a space that feels both inspiring and collaborative. The course gave me a solid foundation in creating safe and meaningful sequences, while encouraging creativity and authenticity. I came away more confident, inspired and excited to plan classes."
Sequencing Student"A toolbox of ideas, mini sequences, and the ability to create my own sequence to support my students regardless of where they are on the mat. Excellent teaching – passion, expertise and a deep knowledge of yoga that was a great resource to tap into."
Sequencing Student“This course is inspiring and fun. Charli creates a beautiful safe space where everyone felt at ease so quickly. We learnt so much in such a short space of time and I am so excited to bring it to my teaching – to add creative, joyful flows and transitions. Couldn’t recommend Charli enough”
Jacqueline, Yoga Teacher“Charli is a beautiful and experienced dancer and yoga teacher — creative, generous, and so clearly in love with the work. She taught us sequences and choreography combined, and her style is inspiring. She helped me remain enthused and capable in creative sequencing further into my journey as a teacher.”
Amy, Yoga Teacher“Charli supported everyone’s ideas – enabling us to create beautiful, creative sequences. Her teaching is encouraging of everyone’s individual style and personality, and she has a gift for making a room feel safe enough that you actually take the risk.”
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Your teacher Charli Van Ness
Senior teacher across both the 200 and 300-hour programmes, bringing profound depth of knowledge.
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Course details
- Getting started: how to begin a new sequence from a clear intention
- Planning, writing and remembering your sequence
- A repeatable framework you can adapt week to week
- Building toward a peak pose and gently bringing students back to rest
- Mini-flows and free, natural movement
- Working with stillness, expansion, contraction, mobility and stability
- Embodied movement and somatic prompts as a creative source
- Foundation and freedom – knowing when to hold structure and when to release it
- Seamlessly building options and modifications into your sequencing
- Layering levels so a single class can hold beginners and experienced students together
- Moving from static, alignment-based work into a powerful flow – safely and inclusively
- Responding to the needs of the room in the moment
- Embodying anatomical awareness so your sequences move with the body, not against it
- Making transitions seamless, so the class flows as one unfolding piece
- Compassionate, intelligent sequencing for a wide range of bodies
- Mobility and stability woven through every layer
- Sequencing a theme so the intention lives in every shape
- Adapting your sequencing for drop-in classes, courses and retreats
- Finding your voice as a teacher
- Building a nourishing, challenging home practice and using it as the basis for what you share
- Making playlists that integrate with – rather than overlay – the practice
- Working with music so it supports breath, pacing and intention
- When silence serves better than sound
- Creating your own complete sequence during the course, with individual feedback from Charli
- Follow-up feedback on sequences or recordings after the course
- A Yoga Alliance registered Further Training Course
- Hours count toward 300-hour certification
- YACEP-eligible
- Certificates issued on completion of all coursework
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