Level up your personal practice and refresh your skillset as a teacher.
18th-26th June 2022 - In-Studio
Yoga from Roots to Innovations -
- Daily Ashtanga assisted self practice: Mysore and led classes
- Anatomy and subtle anatomy
- Anatomy refresher: movement as a series of rotations
- Anatomy of the thoracic diaphragm and core; moving from gross to subtle to refine our understanding of uḍḍīyana bandha
- Anatomy of the pelvic floor; moving from gross to subtle to refine our understanding of mūla bandha
- Prāṇāyāma
- Locks and seals in prāṇāyāma
- Building digestive fire in prāṇāyāma
- Improving natural breathing
- Kumbhaka explored
- Philosophy and chanting
- The antar angam: dhāraṇā, dhyāna, samādhi
- Samādhi, moksha, kaivalya: exploring notions of ‘liberating isolation’
- Sound to silence: chanting and meditation
- Daily chanting of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali
- Gāyatrī mantra
- The Art of Adjusting
- Adjustments to ground the pelvis and stabilise the foundation in a variety of postures
- Adjusting in order: adjusting for safety first then enhancement
- Grounding adjustments for seated poses
- Adjusting twists in all their guises
- The practicalities of invitation and consent in adjusting
- Teaching Practice and Methodology
- Teaching meditation: grounded body awareness, interoceptive approaches to teaching breath and body scans
- Offering multi-level practices through A, B and C options
- Teaching bandha: uḍḍīyana bandha, mūla bandha and jālandhara bandha in theory, prāṇāyāma and āsana practice
- Tristana: breath, bandha and dṛṣṭi in cues
- Teaching inversions
- Sādhanā bhāṣā - Developing your imaginative practice language
- Practicum: teach a dynamic vinyasa practice with strong focus on breath, bandha and dṛṣṭi followed a meditation
What you'll get:
- instant access to online resources
- structured mentorship
- in-person sessions