Asana Practice:

• In-depth study of basic alignments.

• Learn safe positioning for beginner-level students 

• Key modifications for all standard poses for stiff, pregnant, injured or beginner students

• Key guidelines for keeping students safe practice

• Key understanding of balancing muscle engagement & active stretching

• Learn how to create optimal opening of the body in every pose

• Discover which is the centre point for each asana and how to benefit from activating towards and from it to perform the full pose

• Key descriptive language for effective teaching of asana

• Learn benefits and potential risks of each asana

• Adjustments – physical and verbal

Teaching Methodology:

• Study the art of teaching

• Observe the structure of classroom dynamics

• Practise teaching one-on-one with fellow teachers

• Practise teaching small groups of 2-5 students

• Contemplate your key motivations for teaching and realise that by knowing them, you can use them to teach from the core of your being

• Establishing Your Teaching Voice with exercises and feedbackIntroductions & Closing exercises for professional classes

• The Art of Good Demonstrations

• Ethics to consider as part of committing to the path of yoga and the seat of a Teacher

• Explore Confident and Welcoming Body Language

Yoga prop usage:

• Study the proper use of a yoga chair, belt, blanket, blocks, bolster, and yoga mat

• Learn quick use of props for flow classes

• Learn more methodical use of props for slower study of asanas

• Use props for injuries and to investigate poses from different approaches to go deeper Anatomy & Physiology

• Introduction to yoga anatomy – organs and systems of the body, skeletal system, muscular system, and the biomechanics intelligence of the body

• Study all the major joints – movements, restrictions, muscular system, physiology, postural muscles

• Understand the muscular system – muscles for movement and alignment in asana Philosophy

Anatomy & Physiology:

• Introduction of yoga anatomy – systems of the body skeletal system, bone physiology

• Joints – movements, restrictions, muscular system, physiology, postural muscles

• Muscular system – muscles for movement and asana alignment

Meditation:

• Start a daily practice during the training with guided meditation techniques

• Daily journal exercises to contemplate the challenges and the rewards of meditation

• Begin a self-practice of basic meditation

• Leave the basics of teaching meditation

Business of Yoga:

• How to balance what yoga is to you verses the ‘social media’ of yoga

• How to find classes once you graduate, the realities of teaching yoga

• How to be a freelancer and make a living as a yoga teacher