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Jessica Minick YogaWorks Teacher TrainingTeaching ScriptMay 2, 2009We’re going to coming into savasana, so be sure to put on any additional clothing youmay need, or take a blanket to drape over you. Also grab any props you would like to useto make your savasana as comfortable as possible: a blanket or bolster underneath your knees, a folded blanket underneath your head.Once you are ready, come to lay down on your mat on your back with your head facing intowards middle of the room, and your feet facing out towards the wall. Make sure that both your head and feet are on the mat and not hanging off on the floor. Move any propsyou are not using out of the way.Move your feet to be a little more than hip width apart and allow them to roll out to thesides, releasing the lower back. Bring your arms to rest on the floor, far enough fromyour body that you feel your chest open. Rest the back of your hands on the floor andopen your palms up to the ceiling. Check to see that you’re not tucking your chin, andthen allow your face to soften.Close your eyes and begin to bring your attention to your breath. Feel your belly expandwith each inhale, and with each exhale allow each part of your body to release deeper into the floor. Let your legs, your arms, your head be heavy. Relax your toes, your fingers, your shoulders, your eyes, your jaw.If you find your thoughts beginning to wander, come back to your breath. With everyexhale, let go of everything that happened today at home, at work, on the car ride here.Let go of today’s practice, the poses that came easily, the poses you found challenging.Let go of the list you are forming of the things still left to do when you leave here. Let allof these thoughts go and allow yourself to be carried away on the wave of your breath.“LifeLife is flowingMoment to momentFlow with itAnd be sheltered from the hasslesOf time and spaceLife is full of Power Live itFrom breathTo breath!”[Allow students to remain in a silent savasana for 5 minutes.]Bring your awareness back to your body, allowing subtle movements to come into your fingers and your toes. Allow these subtle movements to continue up through the handsand the feet, awakening your body. Stretch your arms overhead, taking a full bodystretch. You can gently take hold of your left wrist and extend out through your rightfoot, stretching your right side. Switch sides. Slowly draw your knees into your chest,