Teach Meaning, Not Theming
Teach Meaning, not just movement.
Chakrology®
A practical guide to teaching yoga through mythology.
Now available in paperback.
' Theming is just the seasoning. Meaning is the ingredients.'
CPD Certified Training
Created by Jackie Quayle
Registered 10000 hr Yoga Elder & Registered Yoga Academy with Yoga Teachers Together (YTT)
Most yoga teachers know the stories – but don't know how to actually teach them in class.
But Mythology was never meant to be decoration. It was meant to help your students recognise themselves. To create meaning.
To make yoga make sense.
This training gives you a practical, structured way to teach mythology with over-explaining it, over-performing it, or turning the class into a lecture.
So your students don't just hear the story. They experience it.
What's inside the book?
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Inside you'll learn how to:
-Move from sequencing classes to holding rooms.
Teach Mythology without performance.
- Trust silence, pacing and presence.
- Teach mythology through asana.
- Create depth without adding more noise.
What's in the book
- 144 page self-paced teaching manual.
- CPD accreditation with Yoga Teachers Together (YTT).
- Structured 3-week teaching arcs for every myth.
- Posture + story integration framework.
- Reflection prompts & lesson planning tools.
- Methodology for putting together workshops, courses and retreats.
- Original Chakrology® resources.
Created by Jackie Quayle - Yoga Elder & Teacher Trainer
With over 22 years of teaching yoga students and teachers, and more than 10000 hours of training, studying and teacher education, Jackie's work bridges mythology, philosophy, anatomy, and practical teaching methodology.
She is a Registered Yoga Elder with Yoga Teachers Together (YTT) founder of Jackie Quayle Yoga Academy (a Registered Yoga Academy) and a BWY.Dip teacher and FC tutor who has taught applied philosophy for many years.
Her work is built on one belief:
Stop teaching postures. Start teaching yoga.
What changes when you teach this way?
Your classes begin to feel different.
Not because you add more - but because you stop doing what isn't needed.
Mythology stops being something you tell. It becomes something you embody, and your students experience.
A posture is no longer just a shape. It becomes a place where meaning can quietly sit.
Your students won't want to leave at the end of class.
You differentiate yourself from other teachers.
You start trusting silence, pacing, and presence.
A single line of a story becomes enough.
Story is no longer something you deliver.
It becomes something that threads through the room.
You stop trying to make meaning happen.
And begin to notice where it already is.
From whisper to weave.
From Story to Teaching.
This work follows a simple progression. Not something you rush - something you return to.
Week 1 – Sravana (Listen)
You learn the story. You don't teach it yet. You sit with it.
Week 2 – Manana (Recognise)
You begin to see yourself – and your students – in it.
You start creating space.
Week 3 – Nididhyasana (Embody)
It no longer needs explaining.
It comes through in how you teach – through pacing, timing, and what you choose not to say.
Why Students Remember
Students rarely remember your playlist. They rarely remember your perfect cue for Warrior 2.
They remember how your teaching made them feel.
They remember the class they never wanted to leave.
They remember recognition.
That is what mythology creates.
Let's hear from some of my students:
Rosie
'The stories help me to understand the feeling behind the movement, making it easier to take the lessons off the mat and integrate them into our own real, messy lives.'
Lee
'When Jackie integrates mythology into classes it takes me out of my head. I stop focusing on my body and the class flows more naturally. It distracts me from my 'monkey brain'. They are incredibly inspiring too. When I find the class challenging the mythology puts me in their shoes, and I find myself wanting to honour them, to honour yoga. There was a quote that Jackie said many years ago about Hanuman, that the gods gave him power, but took his memory away, so he kept forgetting how powerful he was, yet he still did his amazing monkey things because he had faith in himself. Shradda. Profound inner conviction. It has served me off the mat many times.'
Fiona
'The storytelling is calming, it takes the focus in to the why we're doing the poses, the whole mindset of strength and emotion that supports them. I absolutely love how absorbing it is, it's a whole body and mind thing. In a mythology class I can tune my hooligan brain into the narrative and mood.'
Adele
'They are full of love, and passion, and they relate completely to every day life.'
They remember the class they never wanted to leave.
Ready to Teach Meaning, Not Theming?
Yoga was never meant to be decoration.
It was meant to be lived.
If you want to teach mythology, philosophy, and meaning with confidence, clarity, and depth -
this is where you begin.
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