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Applied Anatomy Intensive for Yoga Teachers and Students

Offer your students anatomy and kinesiology training

AppliedAnatomy2Asha is available to lead this special three-day intensive combining medical anatomy with classical yoga training at your studio. Students in this course study the major joints, muscles and connective tissues in the human body, as well as learn proper kinetics as applied to yoga asana. Participants will gain confidence in knowing which movements are appropriate and which are contraindicated for particular medical conditions and injuries. The anatomy presented will be simple, powerfully relevant, and easily applied to a variety of yoga postures and sequences. Contact Asha for more details at asha@yogabuffet.com.

Asha has a unique lens through which to see movement in asana in new ways.

-Nancie Carollo, RMT, RYT

Course Details

Over the course of the weekend we will learn how to:

  • Apply basic anatomy to our yoga practice and teaching
  • Create simple yoga-based sequences to assist movement re-patterning
  • Use asana as a therapeutic modality of healing
  • Support ourselves and our students/clients through an injury rehabilitation process

Topics covered will include:

  • Understanding complicated joints including the knee, SI joint and shoulder
  • The importance of being grounded and internally awake through feet, pelvic floor and psoas
  • The function and relationship of the abdominals to the practice and the body
  • How to recognize and work with scoliosis
  • Cultivating a healthy back and taking care of back problems
  • Why energy anatomy is relevant and important to a balanced practice
  • How acupuncture and bodywork can be informative tools that support a healing yoga practice

This valuable intensive is ideal for:

  • Yoga Teachers
  • Bodyworkers
  • Movement Therapists
  • Yoga Students

This 21-hour course includes the following:

  • Lectures and discussions on human anatomy
  • Practicum on application of anatomy to yoga asana
  • Seminars with expert guest speakers on energy anatomy, acupuncture and bodywork
  • Detailed yoga and teaching practices for various applications.
  • Q&A discussion sessions
  • Anatomy book and course-specific handouts.
  • Certificate of completion + 21 qualified contact hours for Yoga Alliance’s continuing education credit

Asha is truly a master of her craft; she gives brilliant verbal cues and hands-on adjustments, leads one-on-one and in a group setting with precision and encouragement, and shares her vast knowledge of anatomy with great clarity.

-Kate Lillis

Sample Schedule

Friday

  • 8:00 – 8:30am: Registration and Opening Circle
  • 8:30 – 12:00pm: Knees and Feet
  • 12:00 – 1:00pm: Lunch Break
  • 1:00 – 5:00pm: Lumbar Spine and Abdominals

Saturday

  • 8:30 – 12:00pm: Sacro-Iliac Joint and Related Syndromes
  • 12:00 – 1:00pm: Lunch Break
  • 1:00 – 5:00pm: Psoas and Pelvic Floor

Sunday

  • 8:30 – 12:00pm: Scoliosis and Back Therapy Applications
  • 12:00 – 1:00pm: Lunch Break
  • 1:00 – 4:30pm: Shoulders
  • 4:30 – 5:00pm: Closing Circle

This intensive is designed to inform and inspire yoga teachers, body workers, yoga students and movement therapists who wish to refine their understanding of movement and the body. Over the course of the weekend students will receive a thorough understanding of how various critical joints work and the relationship of movements to a sustained yoga practice. Students will begin to develop a knowing of how to work intelligently to avoid injury as well as how to address pre-existing injuries and physical limitations.

This intensive is designed for all individuals with one or more years of a regular yoga practice. Students from all styles of yoga are welcome.

The sessions were structured with a perfect balance of theory and practical application, and the instruction was thorough and easy for someone without an anatomy background to understand.

-Donna Hughes, Astanga Yoga Ottawa

Asha presented the material in an engaging, informative, concise way that held my attention. Practicing the theory behind the lecture was helpful to integrate all of the information. She was very knowledgeable, open to questions, and a true light. She is a great resource for yoga students and teachers, and we are lucky to have her here.

-Melissa Bittner

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