Smart Sequencing - The Art of Class Design
February 27 - March 15
Study the art and science of intelligent sequencing to:
stand out on saturated market
charge higher rates for classes, workshops and private sessions
run your training programs
SMART SEQUENCING
led by
Dikla Kafka
Lara Ederer
Irina Novikova
Feb 27 - March 15 2026
Smart sequencing module -
500 HR Teacher Training Program
In this advanced sequencing module, you will study the art and science of intelligent sequencing — learning to design multi-layered yoga classes that merge modern movement principles with the timeless wisdom of the yoga tradition.
You’ll explore how to create sequences that serve the needs of today’s practitioners, supporting functional movement, joint and spine health, and nervous system balance, while nurturing mindfulness, focus, and emotional harmony.
Through the study of sequencing logic and creative structure, you’ll learn how to build toward peak poses, balance effort with ease, and guide students through coherent, transformative progressions. Drawing on anatomy, kinesiology, and somatic awareness, you’ll connect movement science with classical practices — asana, pranayama, and mudra — to make each sequence both therapeutic and spiritually resonant.
What else will you learn?
You will also work on sequencing for both single-mat classes and Mandala-style practices, exploring:
The Ha-Tha duality and its application in class design.
How to create active/passive and dynamic/static balance in sequences.
Building harmonious progressions through directions of mobility and multi-directional mandala theory.
Incorporating vinyasas (fluid movements) within traditional Hatha structure to generate the flow of energy (vayu) and the psycho-energetic effects of movement — especially vinyasas involving changes in the shape of the spine, which stimulate the cardiovascular, nervous, and endocrine systems, while maintaining authenticity and avoiding the Westernized “Power Vinyasa” approach.
Integrating breathwork and guided visualization to deepen energetic, emotional, and meditative outcomes.
Throughout this module, we emphasize embodiment — understanding how awareness expresses itself through movement, and how each sequence can become a vehicle for self-inquiry, healing, and integration. By the end, you will have the tools and confidence to create purposeful, creative, and energetically intelligent yoga classes that honor the whole being — body, mind, and spirit.
TRAINING DATES
Training happens Friday (evening), Saturday and Sunday (daytime) during 2 weekends for contact/lecture hours and additional hours are scheduled privately to work on sequencing skills with each teacher to obtain certification:
February 27 - March 1
March 13 - 15
2 zoom lectures (duration 2 hours) on March 2 (Mon) and March 10 (Tue) @ 7pm
TRAINING SCHEDULE
Training time:
Friday February 27 @ 5-9pm
Saturday February 28 @ 1 - 5:30pm
Sunday March 1 @ 1 - 4:45pm
Friday March 13 @ 7:45 - 915pm
Saturday March 14 @ 1 - 7pm
Sunday March 15 @ 1 - 4:45pm
Additional requirements:
observation of 3 classes of different sequencing styles
3 designed sequences (one per each style)
3 group teaching class to present designed sequences
Dikla Kafka
Viveka Yoga School co-founder, E-RYT® 200, RYT® 500 Yoga Alliance certified
Ashtanga Variations, Slow Flow Teacher
I started my yoga journey back in Tel Aviv, my home town, after 5 years of Korean martial arts practice. I was immediately drawn to the magic and depth of yoga. I practiced Ashtanga, Iyengar and Sivananda yoga, and finished my level 1 Ashtanga training in 2010, while pregnant with my second child. I teach Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Hatha yoga. I lead TT programs since 2017 and advanced trainings and Yoga Philosophy workshops since 2015.
Yoga Education
Over the years I studied with Kino MacGregor, Dharma Mittra, Jason Crandell, Edward Clark and many other great teachers around the world:
- 100h Ashtanga, Yogalab TLV, - 200h Hatha, HYI, - 200h vinyasa, Les Leventhal, - 95h Yin, Ali Valdez, - 500h advanced certification, Sattva Yoga
Other Education
- MA in political Science and philosophy, Tel Aviv university
- BA in Interdisciplinary Arts studies, Tel Aviv university
In my spare time I raise my 2 amazing girls, play the violin and practice martial arts.
Irina Novikova
500HR E-RYT, Studio owner
Irina Novikova is a former Microsoft Program Manager with 12 years of experience in the tech industry. During her time working in the corporate world Irina discovered and embraced the transformative benefits of a committed yoga practice. Irina spent countless hours working at a desk and during that time found that yoga helped bring the benefits of movement and health into her life. She knows what does it mean to not being able to reach toes or come up to wheel, and suffer from low back pain and tide hamstrings. No wonder that posture, alignment, joint safety are her primary focus along with healing breath. Irina grew up overseas and lived in 4 countries. She always loved dancing but had to follow a different path to provide for the family. However, passion for movement never left her alone and over time she notices that she silently repeats instructions after her teachers and pictures herself being a teacher. At the age of 33 she left software industry to become a yoga teacher. Irina loves seeing her students grow! She offers a few stages of asana so everyone has something to work on. She challenges her students to look inwards to discover the best parts of their personality and shine them out to the world. Irina is a certified 200E-RYT, 500-RYT, RPYT with the Yoga Alliance with additional Yin,, Restorative and Prenatal Teacher Trainings taught by West Coast leading yoga teachers like Ali Valdez, Lisa Black, Jodi Boone, and Colette Crawford. Irina is 300hr Certified Baptiste Lead Additional depth to her classes comes from Ana Forrest Advanced Teacher training taken in 2018. In 2018 Irina completed teacher training with world famous teacher Andrey Lappa and her heart was fully dedicated to his system of Universal Yoga. That was the moment when Irina got a dream to offer this practice to Eastside community. In 2019 just two months prior to giving birth to her son, Irina rented a wonderful space that was built into a yoga studio called SolarYou Yoga. In her personal practice and in her current teaching, Irina studies, practices and teaches classes inspired by the Universal Yoga system to become conscious of and liberated from their behaviors and individual patterns. Irina believes that personal evolution is the only way to influence change within and then in the surrounding environment. Now Irina is aiming to share the art of yoga and healthy lifestyle with the Seattle and Eastside communities!
Lara Ederer
Viveka Yoga School co-founder,
E-RYT® 200, RYT® 500 Yoga Alliance certified
Ashtanga Variations, Slow Flow, Restorative, Yin, Myofascial release Teacher
Lara was introduced to yoga in 2002 by a newly certified friend who needed practice students. Over the next several years she ventured in and out of the practice as well as different styles until she found her "home" in Vinyasa and Ashtanga traditions. In 2011 she completed her 200 Hour with Be Luminous with a primary focus in Power Vinyasa, Vinyasa, and Slow Flow. Lara has spent the last 3 years studying with her teacher Tiffany Cruickshank and Yoga Medicine, a school that is an adjunct to eastern and western medicine with a yogic component. In August, 2018 Lara completed her 500 hour advanced studies having added yin, restorative, myofascial release, therapeutics, internal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, orthopedics, and cadaver dissection studies to her training experiences. Lara is also registered as a Therapeutic Specialist and has continued with her 1000 hour studies through Yoga Medicine.
In addition to teaching she is the co-founder of Yogalab Northwest, a community inspired organization that hosts international yoga teachers in the Seattle area. YLNW has hosted Sri Dharma Mittra, Kino Macgregor, Jason Crandell, Tiffany Cruickshank, Chris Chavez, Amy Ippoliti, Carmen Aguilar.
Lara has completed 75 hours of Advanced Teacher Training with Jason Crandell, 50 hours of Advanced Therapeutics and Teacher Training with Amy Ippoliti, 25 hours with Sri Dharma Mittra, 40 hours with Kino Macgregor, and 25 hours of assisting with Lisa Black.
As co-founder of Viveka Yoga RYS with Dikla Kafka, Lara has mentored 47 aspiring yoga teachers in 4 separate 200 hour YTT programs and graduated 4 from one 300 hour advanced training.
When she is not teaching she spends time traveling with her husband and son.
PRICING
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL (prior to Jan 31, 2025): $1350 for 50HR module (if paid by check or bank transfer, credit card charge + 4%)
*includes 2 free drop in passes to any class at SolarYou Yoga ($70 value) for all new first time clients. Cannot be redeemed for cash, returned for a refund or transferred to other clients.
FULL PRICE: $1680
SOLARYOU YOGA STUDENTS: 5-10% OFF any time after early bird period according to the membership benefits policy
SOLARYOU YOGA EMPLOYEES: 15% OFF any time after early bird period
FAQs
ARE THERE ANY RESTRICTIONS TO ATTEND THE TRAINING?
You do not need to have any special level of practice. Module will teach you how to sequence so you can pick poses that are suitable for your level.
If you have any medical restrictions and injuries we ask you contact us via info@solaryouyoga.com to consult with leading teacher.
SHOULD I RESERVE A SPOT UPFRONT?
Please reserve a spot as early as you can because our facility is a boutique studio where we respect personal space and limit the number of participants to make sure everyone is seen and have enough space to practice.
We offer early bird discounts and discounts for our studio members.
In case you decided to join the training but it is already full please sign up for the waitlist and reach to the studio via info@solaryouyoga.com. In case some participants will have to skip it we will reach out to you with the invitation. We will fully refund to waitlist participants if they did not get their spot in the workshop.
WHAT ARE THE STUDIOS POLICIES AND TERMS OF SERVICE?
Please get familiar with our terms of service and cancellation policies prior to making the purchase. We offer no exceptions to these policies since we treat all our customers evenly.
500 Hours SolarYou Yoga Teacher Training
Led by Dikla Kafka, Lara Ederer, Pamela Chang, Irina Novikova
under Viveka Registered Yoga School
Get 500 HR Yoga Alliance Certification to expand your teaching opportunities and bring your practice and knowledge to a new level in 12 - 36 months
Advanced Anatomy and MFR (25HR)- Oct 2025 (Lara)
Advanced Sequencing (50HR) - Jan - Mar 2026 (Dikla, Irina)
Full Yin Yoga Teacher Training (50HR) - May 2026 (Pamela Chang, Dikla Kafka)
Svadhyaya Immersion - The inner path / journey inward (25HR) - October 2026 (Dikla, Irina)
Yoga for Athletes (25HR) - October 2026 (Lara)
Hatha Basics (25HR) - November 2026 (Dikla)
Restorative Yoga (25HR) - Spring 2027 (Lara)
Ashtanga Basics (25HR) - Spring 2027 (Dikla)
Advance Your Practice (25HR) - Summer 2027 (Lara)
Theraputic Yoga (25HR) - Autumn 2027 (Irina)
Our SolarYou Yoga students love Universal Yoga and all other classes and workshops!
Most of our students started their yoga journey with us with no prior yoga or athletic experience. And we are excited to see their growth and be a part of their transformation through yoga and workout classes with us.
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