COURSE DESCRIPTION:

For the first time at MoreYoga Joshua is offering his extended anatomy skills training for yoga teachers. Joshua has been teaching yoga teachers since 2016, and he weaves in knowledge from his formal education in anatomy and physiology, dance, personal training and massage therapy. He has been celebrated for creating learning environments that make learning anatomy fun, accessible and radically inclusive.
This module is designed as a way to refresh, expand upon and apply the anatomy content covered at the 200hr level. We will introduce the Anatomy Trains system developed by Tom Myers and learn how to apply it within asana to support a progressive practice and minimize risk of injury. We’ll also talk about how other movement practices have influenced yoga, who are today’s anatomy in yoga thought leaders, and how to find, unpack and integrate new anatomical knowledge into our teaching.
This course is designed for teachers who are undergoing or who have completed their 200hr yoga teacher training, but is appropriate for experienced practitioners who want to reframe the way they view their practice or other body workers who want to explore anatomy from a yogic perspective.

STRUCTURE

Each day of the course begins with two hours of asana that demonstrates how the content of the course can immediately be applied to your teaching. The curriculum is organized in the following categories:

Beyond 200hr Anatomy

• Intelligently discuss the various definitions of health, disease and pain and how yoga can help promote long-term benefits in the body.
• Identify important practitioners, teachers and researchers whose developments affected our somatic understanding of yoga.
• Engage with contemporary scholarship surrounding yoga and demonstrate how to independently source, decipher and integrate new knowledge into their teaching.

 Sequencing with Anatomy Trains

• Learn and explore the major lines in Thomas Myers’ Anatomy Trains system.
• Adapt existing sequences or create entirely new class structures informed by the anatomy trains.
• Apply the anatomy trains principles to accommodating injuries, offering adjustments or create a programme of practice for your group classes or individual students.

 Personal Training Skills for Yoga Teachers

• Articulate how individuals learn movement and its effect on the composition of nervous, muscular and connective tissue.
• Create sequences to create desired effects using the principles of adaptation response and progressive overload.
• Integrate all of these principles to create classes to support students with differing goals and needs around strength and flexibility.

REQUIRED READING

All essential reading for the course will be provided by the teacher, but students may find the following texts interesting to support their learning:

Myers, Thomas (2009). Anatomy Trains. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

Girling, Stuart (2022). Illustrated Yoga Anatomy. London: Stu & Bug Books.

SAMPLE SCHEDULE 

9:00-11:00 am — Practice
11:15 am-1:00 pm — Anatomy and Physiology
1:00-2:00 pm — Lunch Break
2:00-3:45 pm — Teaching Tools
4:00-5:30 pm — Anatomy Trains

REQUIREMENTS
This training is designed for students who have completed or are undergoing their 200hr training, but may be of interest to experienced practitioners or other body workers who want to explore anatomy from the perspective of yoga asana.

This course will be delivered in our Cannon Street Studio