# @pranakriya on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BvCi5gqgGR8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11772124-pranakriya-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-03-15T18:55:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PKSYHA (@pranakriya) — https://gondola.cc/pranakriya

## Caption

A new blog from Mike Cardillo... Does this scenario sound at all familiar to you?

You’ve finished leading a yoga class that, in your mind, was awesome. You notice as the students begin to roll up their mats that they’re vibrating at a different frequency; leaving the practice space with easy, blissful expressions on their faces.

Yes … you nailed it!

And then … the first thing you hear from an exiting student is this: “The music was so good. What was the name of that song toward the end?” Commence downward sinking heart pose.

While that scenario might be overly dramatic, odds are most yoga teachers — well, Pranakriya-trained teachers anyway — aren’t fishing for compliments about their Spotify playlist.

I’ve been thinking about music on my mat a lot lately. After about a year of teaching in the “real world” I’ve finally taken a little time to start building a Spotify playlist. I’m not spending hours on the playlist, rather it’s a bunch of songs that I enjoy and feel fit within the context of a yoga class.

Previously I’d taken William Hufschmidt’s advice from my 200-hour YTT that new teachers should wait a few months, if not a year, before incorporating music into their classes. Truth be told, before teaching my first studio class I searched “yoga playlist” and used that under the assumption most students expect background music during a class.

Lesson, mostly, learned.

Offering music in a yoga class, whether it’s popular music or yoga-centric chanting or something “new age” is a tricky maneuver.

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#yogalife
#pranakriya

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