What is yoga?
What is the body?
What is the breath, and the mind?
How do I live it?
How do I offer it?
How do I offer it to every body?
How do I sustain it?
Who am I as a teacher?

One question per weekend, in that order, each built on the one before it. You will answer the last one out loud, in front of the cohort, in May.

The eight weekend:

October: Foundations, and What is Yoga?
November: Functional Movement and Anatomy in Motion
December: Breath, Subtle Body, and Going Upside Down
January: Philosophy and Ethics Deep Dive
February: Sequencing and Class Design
March: The Anatomy of Adaptation
April: Practice Teaching and Professional Essentials
May: Practicum and Integration

272 hours, and where they go:

142 hours in the room across eight weekends:

Asana practice and applied anatomy, 36 hours
Teaching skills, sequencing, and practice teaching, 34 hours
Philosophy, ethics, and yoga humanities, 28 hours
Community, circles, and integration, 17 hours
Breath, meditation, and subtle body, 9 hours
Adaptive and inclusive teaching, 9 hours
Professional essentials, 6 hours

Plus 130 hours between weekends: a daily 20 minute practice log, one class a week at the studio, monthly philosophy reading, an anatomy observation journal, two peer teaches a month, two community classes you teach yourself, a full 60 minute class plan, and your personal teaching philosophy statement.

Anatomy is not a line item on that list, and that is deliberate. It lives inside the asana hours, which is why the total anatomy content is far larger than the number of hours labeled anatomy.

What "anatomy inside the asana" actually covers.

The spine, all five regions, and what neutral actually means. Joint types and what limits range of motion: bone, ligament, or tissue. Compression versus tension, and how to tell which one a student has met. Individual skeletal variation, including why some bodies will never reach certain shapes. Every major muscle group by name and function. Fascia and why slow holds behave differently. The autonomic nervous system, vagal tone, and what practices influence it. The diaphragm and three-dimensional rib mechanics. The pelvic floor and its relationship to mula bandha. The three planes of movement. Common injuries by region, and adapting rather than diagnosing.

And the traditional map alongside the Western one: the bandhas, the koshas, the nadis, the chakras, and the prana vayus. You leave fluent in both languages.

Props as intelligence, not remediation.

The body is sacred, not an obstacle.

Designing for the room, not the photo.

The art of watching before cueing.

What yoga can and cannot do.

What we ask of you

The weekends are the container. The eight months in between are where you become a teacher. Alongside the training weekends, you will:

• Keep a daily personal practice, 20 minutes, five days a week

• Take one class a week at the studio, included with your training

• Read the assigned philosophy each month

• Keep an anatomy observation journal

• Practice teach with a peer twice a month in the second half

• Teach two community classes at the studio in the final months

• Write a full 60 minute class plan

• Write your personal teaching philosophy statement

• Teach a full assessed class in May

Who this is for

You do not need to be able to do a handstand. You do not need ten years of practice, or a particular body, or a plan to teach full time. You do need curiosity, and a willingness to be a beginner in front of other people.

• Students with a consistent practice who want to understand the why underneath it

• People who want to teach, whether that means a studio schedule, a community class, or their own living room

• Teachers of other movement disciplines looking for a real yoga foundation

• Longtime practitioners who want a structured year of study with no obligation to teach at the end