Curriculum

There are four main components, each with sub-categories, required by Yoga Alliance for each Yoga Teacher School in order to maintain a quality of education and ethics of industry standard.

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Here are some general curriculum details. There is flexibility within these sub-categories, depending on the pace, flow, interests, and needs of your Registered Yoga Teacher training cohort. 

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Teaching, Techniques, & Practice (75 hours)
 

• The Chakra System

  • Learn about the Chakras and how they affect our emotional, physical, and spiritual well being.

  • Engage in Chakra Yoga classes & workshops designed to activate, align, & heal the body's  seven main energetic epicenters.​

• Kundalini Yoga

  • L​earn about the history, philosophy, & practice of Kundalini Yoga.

  • Engage in Kundalini Yoga kriyas (series of movements, chants, and. breathing exercises) designed to activate, align, & heal the body's physical, emotional, & spiritual Self.

• Meditation

  • Learn about, and practice, various meditation styles, techniques, and practices. ​

  •  Practice mudras (hand postures), chants (Sanskrit prayers & universal sounds), and breathing techniques to activate, align, and heal the entire mind-body-spririt

• emBodied Yoga School

  • Learn, and practice, how to embody and facilitate inclusive & restorative yoga practices for anyBody, based on our school's philosophy, ethics, and values.

Professional Essentials (50 hours)
 

• ​Create and build an inclusive language tool box.

• Practice cuing without Sanskrit and English post names and without telling, showing, or encouraging anyBody to be anything other than exactly what they are in any given moment.

• Practice "toning" each yoga practice with a neutrality that invites inclusion, awareness, and opportunities for befriending the body.

• Practice facilitating yoga practices that invite curiosity, exploration, and self-directed variations and accommodations.  

• Acknowledge, honor, and celebrate diversity. 

• Explore the role of music within the context of an emBodied yoga practice.

• Learn how to use various "props" to support body shapes & postures.

• Practice sequencing that promotes deep awareness of physical sensation, emotional safety, and presence to that which is happening in the right now.

• Engage in your own journey of creative expression of Self by using colors and imagery to express what you are feeling/seeing/being with in your body.

• Experience being a part of, and learning how to create, sacred space within a group of individuals from various walks of life.

• Identify, explore, and practice cultivating all types of safety within the context of a yoga practice: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, & spiritual.

• Complete a 12-hour practicum.

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Anatomy & Physiology​ (30 hours)
 

• Study the physiology of the breath.

• Learn about pelvic anatomy and practice yoga techniques for promoting abdominal heath and wellness.

• Learn about, and practice, specific yoga techniques for digestion.

• Use the Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book as a resource for learning about:

  • Anatomy vocabulary and basic systems of the body

  • The skeleton, joints, and connective tissue

  • The muscular system

• Learn how yoga affects the circulatory, nervous, and endocrine systems.

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Yoga Humanities (30 hours)
 

• Learn about the history of Yoga

• Study the Eight Limbs of Yoga

• Study the Yoga Sutras

• Explore where we are now at the intersection of social justice and yoga

  • What are current pathways ​to inclusion & safety in a yoga practice?

  • What are current roadblocks to inclusion & safety in a yoga practice?
     

Elective (15 hours)

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• Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy