Featured Training Module
Building a Sequence: For Yourself and for Others
With Dustin Maxwell | November 20th – 22nd
Learn to build clear, purposeful yoga sequences around a focus pose, body part, or energetic state.
A well-structured yoga sequence gently opens the body and prepares the practitioner for success—whether the goal is a peak posture, a breath practice working with a specific prāṇa, a meditation that unlocks the mind, or simply a life better lived.
With thousands of possibilities, how do you decide what to include, in what order, and with what variations? In this hands-on intensive, you’ll learn a repeatable framework to build, refine, and adapt sequences for personal practice and confident teaching.
1. Focus Posture
Deconstruct blueprint postures and warm up component body regions so complex shapes feel safe, natural, and accessible.
2. Targeted Anatomy
Structure classes around specific body requests—hips, shoulders, spine—utilizing strategic counterposes and functional adaptations.
3. Energetic States
Harness the classical gunas and prāṇic energies to consciously evoke states of activation (brāhmaṇa), pacification (laṅghana), or balance (samāna).
Training & Certification Details
This weekend immersion functions as a stand-alone workshop and as a core module in the Nirguna Yoga School pathway. Open to dedicated students and teachers alike.
- Your “Little Black Dress” Sequence: Leave with a dependable, adaptable template you can reuse and modify for life.
- Teaching Practicum: Direct experience co-creating and practice-teaching sequences in a supportive container.
- Continuing Education: Eligible for Yoga Alliance CE / YACEP hours.
- Teacher Certification: Counts as one module toward your RYT 200, 300, or 500 pathway.
- Studio Benefit: Full immersion includes a one-month unlimited membership at Nirguna Yoga.
Weekend Schedule
Friday, November 20th | 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Aim, Direction & Community Potluck
What brings you to practice, and where do you want it to take you? We’ll explore these foundational questions through shared conversation, an open discussion shaped by the room, and our community potluck. Free and open to everyone!
Saturday, November 21st | 2:00pm – 8:00pm
Blueprint Postures & The Sequencing Template
Sunday, November 22nd | 2:00pm – 8:00pm
Creation, Application & Teaching Lab
Recommended Immersion Reading
Yoga: Ancient Heritage, Tomorrow’s Vision by Indu Arora
Enhance your study with Indu Arora’s revered work on traditional wisdom and modern application. View the book here →
Meet Dustin Maxwell
Dustin Maxwell (500hr E-RYT, AYS) is a queer dancer, maker, performer, death doula, yoga practitioner, bodyworker, and Ayurveda Yoga Specialist with over 30 years of dance experience and 14 years teaching yoga.
His classes are informed by his teachers in the Himalayan Tradition, Sri Vidya, Kashmir Shaivism, Tantra, and Vedanta, as well as somatic movement modalities. Dustin believes the Truth pointed to in yogic texts is inherent in the physical form, revealed through heightened awareness, deep listening, and humility.
A licensed massage therapist graduated from the Albuquerque School of Healing Arts, Dustin has practiced Thai Massage since 2013 and also offers Integrated Massage therapy at Nirguna Yoga, combining Swedish, Thai, Deep Tissue, Trigger Point, and Myofascial Release to promote complete well-being.