Fundamentals of Yoga Teaching

The Fundamentals of Yoga Teaching – 24 Hours

This is the foundational module of our 300 hour course and can be taken as a training in its own right.  It will provide the yoga student/teacher with a practical way to audit and improve their key teaching skills. Suitable for yoga teachers, trainees and serious yoga practitioners.

This weekend workshop is for yoga teachers, trainees and practitioners who wish to shine the light on their understanding of the science and art of teaching yoga. Take the time to focus on the essential skills that make your teaching more potent, authentic and pleasurable for you to deliver and for your students to receive.

Each morning will include a 2 hour practice where we can explore with our bodies and our hearts the curriculum that we will cover below.

 We will cover:

•      Universal Principles Alignment– An overview (and introduction) to Anusara’s elegant bio-mechanical principles of alignment . There are 5 principles that can be applied to one degree or other in all poses, in all yogic practices and to a large extent in life itself.
• Non- Dual Tantra – an overview and introduction to the life empowering philosophy of Tantra.
• The Qualities of Consciousness
• 36 Tattvas
• Basics of giving clear and effective instructions
• Getting students into the form of a pose
• Voicing,
• Directionality
• Basics of Anatomy
• Planes of movement
• Anatomical Landmarks
• The Spine
• The Hips
• The Shoulders
• Observation – what is happening in any given pose? what is happening in any given body in any given pose? Using your understanding of the structure of each pose to help develop your skill to see more clearly what is working or what is not.
• Asana Lab – a structured and focussed look at asana to include
• Form and Category
• Mythical Links
• Benefits and Effects
• Contraindications
• Anatomy of the pose
• Key Actions of the pose
• Strength and Length in the pose
• Universal Principals of Alignment applied

We will be taking all parts and views of the pose apart in order to understand the whole more thoroughly.

Cost: Registration €395