Bones and Joints

Expert, step by step guidance on running an effective asana lab in your yoga teacher training.  Teachers should purchase this module WITH the Asana Guide or Student Manual (if you don’t already have). We cover key postures from each major family of poses:

• Neutral standing poses (example: lunge, warrior one)
• Externally rotated standing poses (example: warrior two)
• Twisted standing (example: revolved side angle)
• Active hip openers (example: full splits/ hanumanasana)
• Hand balancings (example: crow, side plank)
• Inversions (example: handstand)
• Seated hip openers (example: cobblers pose, baddha konasana)
• Seated forward folds (example: janu sirsasana/ head to knee pose)
• Reclined poses (example: happy baby)
• Savasana

Available as a PDF as well as Word, so that they are fully customizable and editable.

Class time: 9.5 hours

What’s Included

• “How to Host An Asana Lab,” with my key insights, tips, and strategies from years of leading trainings.
• Trainer Notes for facilitating an interactive asana lab for all the major families of poses common to a 200-hour curriculum. Includes:
  • General guided discussion on the pose family
  • Purpose
  • Risks
  • “Traditional” expression
  • Modification and variations
  • Props
  • Sequencing considerations
  • Common misalignments

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson:

• Students will identify the general form, purpose, benefits, risk factors, and common misalignments of this category of poses
• Students will identify key alignment factors that are common to this category of poses
• Students will identify sequencing considerations for this category of poses
• Students will see students, starting from the Whole Person
• Students will accurately identify misalignments in the body based on the Universal Actions

Sample Pages