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.
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.
Teaching, Techniques, & Practice (75 hours)
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The Chakra System
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Learn about the Chakras and how they affect our emotional, physical, and spiritual well being.
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Engage in Chakra Yoga classes & workshops designed to activate, align, & heal the body's seven main energetic epicenters.
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Kundalini Yoga
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Learn about the history, philosophy, & practice of Kundalini Yoga.
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Engage in Kundalini Yoga kriyas (series of movements, chants, and. breathing exercises) designed to activate, align, & heal the body's physical, emotional, & spiritual Self.
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Meditation
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Learn about, and practice, various meditation styles, techniques, and practices.
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Practice mudras (hand postures), chants (Sanskrit prayers & universal sounds), and breathing techniques to activate, align, and heal the entire mind-body-spririt
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emBodied Yoga School
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Learn, and practice, how to embody and facilitate inclusive & restorative yoga practices for anyBody, based on our school's philosophy, ethics, and values.
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Professional Essentials (50 hours)
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Create and build an inclusive language tool box.
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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.
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Practice "toning" each yoga practice with a neutrality that invites inclusion, awareness, and opportunities for befriending the body.
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Practice facilitating yoga practices that invite curiosity, exploration, and self-directed variations and accommodations.
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Acknowledge, honor, and celebrate diversity.
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Explore the role of music within the context of an emBodied yoga practice.
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Learn how to use various "props" to support body shapes & postures.
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Practice sequencing that promotes deep awareness of physical sensation, emotional safety, and presence to that which is happening in the right now.
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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.
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Experience being a part of, and learning how to create, sacred space within a group of individuals from various walks of life.
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Identify, explore, and practice cultivating all types of safety within the context of a yoga practice: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, & spiritual.
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Complete a 12-hour practicum.
Anatomy & Physiology (30 hours)
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Study the physiology of the breath.
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Learn about pelvic anatomy and practice yoga techniques for promoting abdominal heath and wellness.
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Learn about, and practice, specific yoga techniques for digestion.
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Use the Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book as a resource for learning about:
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Anatomy vocabulary and basic systems of the body
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The skeleton, joints, and connective tissue
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The muscular system
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Learn how yoga affects the circulatory, nervous, and endocrine systems.
Yoga Humanities (30 hours)
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Learn about the history of Yoga
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Study the Eight Limbs of Yoga
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Study the Yoga Sutras
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Explore where we are now at the intersection of social justice and yoga
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What are current pathways to inclusion & safety in a yoga practice?
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What are current roadblocks to inclusion & safety in a yoga practice?
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Elective (15 hours)