Bones and Joints

What’s Included

• Historical Context of Asana (30 min)
• Asana Labs (9.5 hours)
• Asana Practices (23 hours)
• Meditation (4 hours)
• Pranayama (6 hours)
• Introduction to the Chakras (Google Slide | Powerpoint presentation, 1.5 hours)
• Introduction to the Koshas (Google Slide | Powerpoint presentation, 1 hour)
• Student handouts are provided in Google Docs (downloadable as PDF or Word) for meditation, pranayama, chakra and kosha sections; I strongly recommend that you purchase the Student Manual or Asana Guide to support the practices and asana lab study. I would also suggest suggest investigating my sequencing resources. 

Learning Objectives

By the end of these lessons, your students will be able to (see individual lesson for more in-depth course descriptions):

• Describe and demonstrate key alignment points, modifications, propping, and action for key yoga poses from your 200 hour yoga teacher training
• Lead fellow students effectively through several meditation styles
• Lead fellow students through a full, complete breath, kapalabhati, viloma, and nadi shodhana pranayama
• Describe key resources and references for the historical context of pranayama and meditation
• Describe the seven primary chakras and identify each’s associated element
• Describe each layer of the koshas model and its governance