The themed workshops will cover a wide range of asana keys like handstands, backbends, inversions and hip openers. Twice per week the trainees will meet one of these aspects through more advanced asanas and demanding postures as well as the way of working towards them.

Teaching  practice

Includes practice teaching, receiving feedback, observing others teaching, hearing and giving feedback. Also includes assisting students while someone else is teaching.

• You will start to teach from day one
• The building of the yoga lessons will be gradual and smooth facilitating everyone to develop their talents
• Teaching will also be progressive starting with one-to-one lessons in the beginning and moving step by step to bigger groups of students ending up in full open classes
• Regular feedbacks are given by teachers and fellow students about your teaching, so that you can improve and find your unique voice and style as a teacher
• You will learn to give hands on adjustment
• Teaching methodology and technique
• Principles of demonstration
• Observing, assisting and correcting
• Instruction, teaching styles, qualities of a teacher
• Voice projection, floor presence
• The student’s process of learning
• Planning and structuring a class
• Alignment and hands-on-adjustment
• Dealing with injuries and safety precautions
• Business aspects of teaching yoga.
• Pranayama , mudra, bandhas and kriya

Pranayama (yogic breathing)

According to the great yogis breath equals to energy flow so through these morning classes the trainees will get hands-on experience of how the breath works. Introduction, its aspects, pranic body, different types of prana, types of breathing, anatomy of breathing, Yogic breathing.

Various breath technics will be tested such as:

• Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing)
• Sheetali  (cooling breath)
• Shitkari (hissing breath)
• Bhramari (humming bee breath)
• Ujjayi (the psychic or victorious breath)
• Bhastrika (bellows breath)
• Kapalbhati (frontal brain cleansing breath)
• Suryabheda (vitality stimulating breath)

Mudra (Psychic gesture)

• Introduction
• Types: Hand mudras, Head mudras, Postural mudras, Lock mudras, Lock (bandha) mudras, Perinial mudras

Bandhas (energy locks)

• Inroduction, types, throat lock, root lock, abdominal lock, great lock
• Kriya Yogic cleansing techniques

Philosophy

• Meaning of yoga, Concepts, History
• Yoga sutras
• The 8-limb path of Yoga according to Pattanjali
• Four schools of yoga
• Nadis (energy channels), Chakras, Kundalini
• Vedas and six systems of Indian philosophy
• The aim of yoga, modification of mind, mental disposition, different levels of preparation, meaning of OM, Kriya yoga, Samyama yoga, Samadhi
• Obstacles on the path of yoga, physical and mental disturbances caused by an un-concentrated mind, means to overcome obstacles, methods to control the modifications of mind
• Life style and ethics for a yoga practitioner and teacher

Anatomy

• Includes both human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.). Includes both the study of the subject and application of its principles to yoga practice (benefits, contraindications, healthy movement patterns, etc).
• Practical anatomy with a major emphasis on muscular and skeletal structures and in depth study of anatomical and skeletal differences i.e. compression, tension, and proportion and orientation theory.
• Introduction and different body systems
• Skeletal system, muscular system, connective tissue, nervous system, major joints of the body
• The foot, knee, pelvic floor, hips, spine, shoulder
• Breathing and respiratory system

Business aspect of yoga

• Career as a teacher
• Setting up your own studio, school or business
• Marketing strategy, Advertising and PR
• Ethics in yoga business building network with other yoga teachers, schools, studios and retreats