Rewriting Alignment: Anatomy for Yoga Teachers

This Yoga Alliance–certified course (17 hours CEU) will gradually guide you through the entire body. We will focus on what is essential for stability, as well as on why we want to cultivate healthy mobility in the body and how all of this is reflected in the mind.

The course is structured to balance experience through yoga practice with clear theoretical understanding. Each day begins with an āsana practice that introduces the theme of the day and creates space for a deeper, more conscious understanding of both traditional and non-traditional postures. These practices are intelligently sequenced and lead participants through a coherent cycle that supports activation, grounding, and integration of the physical body and the nervous system.

Friday is dedicated to the topic of pain and backbends, their influence on the nervous system, and how to approach them safely and consciously.Saturday focuses on the stability of the lower limbs—how to create stability in the body, what influences our mobility, and why it is essential for healthy movement.Sunday is devoted to the stability of the upper limbs and the use of the arms in āsana.

In the subsequent theoretical blocks, we will dive into key concepts of anatomy as applied to āsana. We will work with principles of human biomechanics drawn from sports science and also touch on foundational insights from neuroscience. The training will include a clear and accessible explanation of pain theory—what pain is, how it affects us, and how it can be influenced through conscious practice—as well as work with the teacher’s language: how the way we speak shapes students’ experiences and how to communicate in a way that helps people feel safe, supported, and at ease in our classes.