Yoga Teacher Tool Feedback

yogajarr · 07-22-2006, 07:19 PM

I'm considering creating a tool for yoga teachers to help manage and plan their classes. Before I do so, I'm trying to figure out if it would be a real benefit to teachers or not. I sure would appreciate any thoughts or comments. Would the tool described below be something you would use?

My wife is a yoga teacher and every day she creates a new flow for her students and every year I buy her a new journal so she can document these different flows. She must have close to a thousand different routines now. Recently, I started thinking of a way she can better organize and archive her poses/flows and this is what I came up with...

... a software tool that let's her build a database of different yoga positions and flows. Each position would be accompanied with an image and any special notes/comments she may have entered about that position. Each flow would contain 18 - 20 of these position images or how every many she needed for an hour to hour and a half class. The best part is that once her database of positions and flows is large enough she can start to access that data to build new flows. She would ask the program to give her XX positions based on the type of class she wants to run that day. The program would then let her drag the images around to create the sequence and order she wants. She continues to save the
flow, maybe print it out. After the class has been completed she would come back to the program and enter comments about how the students reacted to it. In addition to entering notes for future reference, she could even assign the flow some sort of rating.

I think a tool like this would not only save her a ton of time, but more importantly give her the ability to document exceptional classes she taught and then easily refer to them once again. She would be able to ask the program to give her top 5 classes under the keyword "relaxation". She may want to pick one and insert just a couple different positions and then save it as a new flow. She could do lot's of neat little query's against her database.

Anyway, what do you think? Would a tool like this help you out in your every day?

InnerAthlete · 07-30-2006, 06:01 PM

I think for those teachers who sequence (what you refer to as "flow") in the way your spouse does, it would be a very helpful tool for them.

So there would be a target market for this tool. Some of them should weigh in here. I do not teach this style of yoga any longer and my sequences are quite different so this tool might be neat for me to play with but I'm not sure in what other way it might serve me as a teacher.

Would this be a multi-platform tool or just one ported to WIndows?

07-22-2006, 07:19 PM	#1
yogajarr Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1	Yoga Teacher Tool Feedback I'm considering creating a tool for yoga teachers to help manage and plan their classes. Before I do so, I'm trying to figure out if it would be a real benefit to teachers or not. I sure would appreciate any thoughts or comments. Would the tool described below be something you would use? My wife is a yoga teacher and every day she creates a new flow for her students and every year I buy her a new journal so she can document these different flows. She must have close to a thousand different routines now. Recently, I started thinking of a way she can better organize and archive her poses/flows and this is what I came up with... ... a software tool that let's her build a database of different yoga positions and flows. Each position would be accompanied with an image and any special notes/comments she may have entered about that position. Each flow would contain 18 - 20 of these position images or how every many she needed for an hour to hour and a half class. The best part is that once her database of positions and flows is large enough she can start to access that data to build new flows. She would ask the program to give her XX positions based on the type of class she wants to run that day. The program would then let her drag the images around to create the sequence and order she wants. She continues to save the flow, maybe print it out. After the class has been completed she would come back to the program and enter comments about how the students reacted to it. In addition to entering notes for future reference, she could even assign the flow some sort of rating. I think a tool like this would not only save her a ton of time, but more importantly give her the ability to document exceptional classes she taught and then easily refer to them once again. She would be able to ask the program to give her top 5 classes under the keyword "relaxation". She may want to pick one and insert just a couple different positions and then save it as a new flow. She could do lot's of neat little query's against her database. Anyway, what do you think? Would a tool like this help you out in your every day?

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07-30-2006, 06:01 PM	#2
InnerAthlete Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 902	I think for those teachers who sequence (what you refer to as "flow") in the way your spouse does, it would be a very helpful tool for them. So there would be a target market for this tool. Some of them should weigh in here. I do not teach this style of yoga any longer and my sequences are quite different so this tool might be neat for me to play with but I'm not sure in what other way it might serve me as a teacher. Would this be a multi-platform tool or just one ported to WIndows?