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Can anyone help with this? I have a class participant with really flexible hips- extended swan pose, half lotus with forward fold: none of these options are challenging for her. Any suggestions for advanced poses I could suggest to her?

What I found useful as a new instructor - and still do! - is to take inspiration from the DVD, chorey notes and technique section of your book. (You probably talked about this some in training, too, so also think about advice your trainer gave you for building a library of cues.)  Refer to page 101 in your manual for information on ...

So, one of my instructor friends is pregnant, and we started talking....While I know we can do BodyFlow while pregnant, and I know of people who taught it, how do you teach your class all the options when you can't show them? I guess you could talk a lot about them. Or make everyone take pregnancy options with you? :)

Yes! I completely agree. I can't tell you how much I used to dread this pose, and when I found out we had it coming in BodyFlow, I actually (momentarily) regretted signing up to be a teacher! But now that we've been doing it in class a few weeks, it makes me really very happy. It's one pose that I still can't do quite perfectly (because, you know, ...

Oh, yes, you have to be really on top of your participants for this pose! Make sure you get everyone facing the same direction to start, and then be very clear about which leg should be in front. I tried all the cues, from ''right foot'' to ''leg closest to me,'' and STILL would end up with someone - often several people! - with their back to me ...