"It felt like déjà vu-as if the teachers had attended the same workshop the previous weekend and came back teaching the same thing. I don't think they were intentionally copying one another. And as a teacher, I understand how this can happen. It's what happens when we're all floating in the same little teaching bubble. You hear the same cues, take the same classes, absorb the same playlists and transitions."
"I've caught myself falling into this trap as well. It always happened when I wasn't really practicing yoga for myself. Yes, I was demoing poses for students when I stood in front of them. I was rehearsing sequences I'd already taught. But I wasn't actually moving for myself. I wasn't creating anything new or letting myself be drawn by how I felt."
Multiple teachers taught nearly identical vinyasa sequences, illustrating how shared workshops, cues, playlists, and training create a narrow teaching bubble. When teachers rehearse familiar sequences for students instead of moving and creating from personal practice, classes lose energy and originality. Repeated sequencing produces flatter classes where everyone moves through the motions rather than meeting the moment. Familiarity and nervous-system preference for patterns can feel comforting, but labeling a class creative requires genuine novelty; repeating the same flow becomes merely rewarming leftovers rather than cooking something new.
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