What makes good yoga class composition?

Purpose
If you try to do everything at once, you don’t truly improve on anything. All the yoga poses within a class should be focused on one area of the body. In a good class the yoga poses are selected and put in a specific order with that purpose in mind.
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Build up
Practicing yoga poses is communication with the body. When you chat with a person you would start with small talks before getting into deeper conversation. Same with communication with the body. First you use easier yoga poses to connect with and work on the surface muscles. Then you can slowly move onto harder yoga poses to connect with and work on the deeper muscles. If you don’t approach it progressively, there will be resistance from your body or even injury.

Cool down
Your body builds up tension as you challenge your body to harder poses at the peak of the class. After that, you need to slowly wind down the tension with progressively relaxing poses. Otherwise a yoga class may leave you feeling more tense than relaxed.
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Counter-balance
If we only move in one direction it will create strain in the body. Built up strain develops into pain. A class may focus on moving the body in one direction. But it should also include few poses for moving the body in opposite direction to counter- balance and avoid strain.

A good mix of all directions
A good yoga class focuses on only one purpose. But that purpose should be tackled from different angles. To release the lower back it is important to focus on forward bending the lower back. Yet bending it backward, sideways, and twisting all help with getting deeper into the forward bending. They release surrounding muscles that may hold you back. When all the surrounding muscles are released, you will be able to go a little bit deeper.