Guiding your students in & out of Savasana
🌙 Now more than ever we need rest, quiet, and time to simply be. Savasana is truly the most meaningful part of your class. Do not underestimate its potency:
Here are some of our cues to guide your students in & out of corpse pose, and get you thinking more about the art of savasana
⛩️ Getting into Savasana:
🔮Consider supporting your joints with rolled blankets and bolsters as you create a supported, subtly weightless sensation for savasana… (many students skip this because “it’s too much effort” but it makes a seismic difference- consider allotting more time for a better savasana. #rest
👁️ Cue small details that are more of an invitation than a demand: “consider closing your eyes, or letting the lids set like suns”. “What might it feel like to remove a pony tail and let your scalp rest too?”
🦉 Encourage agency and self-practice by asking yourself/students: “What feels good, what might feel better?”
✨ Avoid words like “surrender” in favor of language that invites exploration. “How might it feel to hand over a bit more of your weight to gravity?”
🦈 Walk yourself/students through their bodies, giving them a chance to actively soften tissues that they might be gripping out of habit. Especially the jaw, glutes, hands, eyebrows.
🌊Invoke nature. “invite your body to spread…like water”.
🕊️Coming out of Savasana —
🌱Use language that supports people exiting the experience on their own terms. “When the moment feels right, invite organic movement back into the body.” “Call the breath to a higher-tide”, “perhaps a yawn or sigh makes itself known”
🐣 Offer options for the physical transition: “Hug knees in and rock yourself softly” “ Find your way to a seated position with the same care you would a baby bird” “without urgency, without ambition…mosey your way back to a seat.”
🧑🎤Save this post for inspo next time you teach, and keep exploring new ways to say the usual!
PSA: Language is Queen, so fill your reservoir with a steady dose of poetry, prose and music.✨
📚Extra credit- learn more about the radical importance and implications of rest.
This is also an incredible listen as it is read by the author herself:
