Hot Yoga Topics > Script Memorization
It's cool that you added color and the faculty of "sight"
As well as imagination into your memorization exercise Kristina; the more faculties you engage the easier the memorization sinks in.
Rhonda Uretzky, E-RYT
Thanks for the encouragement, Rhonda. However, this week (Intro, pranayama, ardachandrasna) was a doozie! I just couldn't seem to get the words to come out right.
I feel that I have the words, but they're not coming out in the order that the body would do it. Sounds like I might have some more 'visualizing' to work on.
KristinaS
Kristina - if you havent done a Big Physical, get jiggy with it! Read your script word for word and shake your booty - move your body BIG - flail your arms, kick your legs, shimmy, jump, shout, exaggerating everything. Go ahead - do a Big Physical to feel like a BIG fool - or a kid again (!) and let your body help your mind. And use Law of Atraction and your Challenge #2: avoid I Can't statements, even clandestine ones ("I just couldnt seem to get the words to come out right... they're not coming out in the right order"). How would you turn these two statements into "I Can"? The words you speak here are are paving the way for the script you will want...focus on what you want.
Rhonda Uretzky, E-RYT
So glad to stumble on this and read everyone's tips as I am just beginning this memorization thing! If only I was blessed with that photographic memory. :) For now, I'll stick with trying some of these techniques. I recorded myself reading from paper and have been listening to it in the car in efforts it will stick soon! If not, I'll be trying out this Big Physical and soon....
HeatherS
Thank you all for your great scripting tips as I am new coming around the track on this! This week I will be retrying the Big Physical, at Rhonda's reccomendation. I also play my recorded scripts through my car speakers to and from work, if not for that I would be totally lost!
KimA
So fun to read through all of this and see what works/doesn’t work for all trainees from the past 7 years! There isn’t a one size fits all model, but the common denominator from what I’m reading is consistency and practice. Big Physical isn’t my favorite but having a recording on my phone of my voice reading the script is a game changer. Just having it on whenever I can helps, even if I’m not 100% focused. I believe in osmosis here lol. I am looking forward to the day when j can say learning the script is truly like riding a back, and that I’ve internalized it forever. I definitely get rusty if several days go by without practice, but I think eventually these words will live within me.
Pamela
I love reading all these tips and seeing that past students and current teachers have felt the same as I do. I've recorded myself reading the scripts which I listen to in the car, I read over scripts whenever I get a moment, I've written out all the scripts each week because this is how I normally remember things. I feel the only thing left is just convincing myself that I can rock this. I am constantly trying to prepave a perfectly executed script.
Erica
You already DO rock this! And you hit it exactly: your constantly trying to prepave a perfectly executed script" is exactly the struggle that is working against you! Let go and IMAGINE having FUN teaching! No one is going to be executed here lol...and perfection is not what you're after - everything is always evolving so how can it ever be perfect? The fun of teaching hot yoga is not only in the words only, its in the energy you feel...and I KNOW you feel it!
Rhonda Uretzky, E-RYT
I color coded my trees into segments so that I could better 'see' the forest in my mind when practicing. Then, I kept the pretty paper in my pocket, referring to it whenever I needed to throughout the day.