More Advice to New Instructor

New Instructor was talking to me yesterday, about choreography and the schedule of implementation, etc. My first question to her was - what happens if she gets a class full of people who have never done her class before, which, for a new instructor like her, is a distinct possibility.

I told her that, from my experience, to build a class from nothing, she needs to meet two goals:

1. Give the members a good workout - after all, that's what they are there for, and if they get a good exercise session, they wouldn't feel that their time was wasted.
2. Instructor needs to connect with the class - the commands need to be strong and effective, there needs to have an energy exchange between the instructor and the members, and the instructor needs to send it out first. No energy? Dead class.

It was never about the choreography.