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Why I created this course...
We want the best for our students, and this includes minimizing their potential for injuries in yoga. But the truth is, that even after we graduate from yoga teacher training, most of us don’t have all the anatomical and technical knowledge to help our students adapt their practice and manage their injuries.
This training will fill in your educational gaps by providing you with essential knowledge and tools, including:
- Learning best practices for preventing injuries. Think: modern alignment and stabilization techniques, minimal intensification adjustments, balanced sequencing, and more.
- Learning to adapt postures and manage common knee, hip, hamstring, sacroiliac, lower-back and shoulder injuries.
You can do all of these things without going beyond your professional scope and offering a medical or PT diagnosis. Instead, you will learn to provide the best, most up-to-date techniques for helping your students practice safely and skillfully.
How the course addresses common injury management challenges:
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Comprehensive Injury Modifications
We cover all of the most common injuries that students experience, including knee, hip & hamstring, lower-back, SI joint, and shoulder challenges.
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Professional & Ethical Standards
Help your students without crossing professional lines by purporting to practice medicine or provide therapy.
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Anatomical Insight
Learn essential anatomy relating to common injuries and pose modifications.
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Time to Learn & Integrate
With access for an entire year, you can watch, rewatch and learn at your own pace.
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Practical & Accessible Support for Students
Immediately apply modern, safe techniques and injury troubleshooting in every postural category including backbends, forward bends, twists, and more.
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Monthly Practices
Maintain community & connection by receiving a new 30-minute practice every month focused on supporting your body and managing student injuries.
Here's a look at full the syllabus...
Core Concepts
- Course Overview
- Our Professional Scope
- Best Practices
- Common Causes of Yoga Injuries
- Elastic Profiles and Strength Types
- Injuries: To ask or not to ask?
- The Question Tree
Troubleshooting the Knees
- Overview of Common Knee Challenges
- Knees and The Bridge & Bow Family
- Knees and The Pigeon/Lotus Family
- Back Knee in Standing Poses Family
- Knees and the Hero Pose Family
- Knees and the Triangle Pose Family
- Knees and Kneeling Poses
Troubleshooting the Hips & Pelvis
- Hips & Pelvis Overview
- Overview of Hip Anatomy
- Not-So-Happy Baby Pose
- Hips & Pelvis in Forward Fold Family
- Hips & Pelvis in Low Lunge Family
- Hips & Pelvis in Hip Rotation
Troubleshooting the Sacroiliac Joints
- Why is the sacroiliac to vulnerable?
- Steps to Healthy SI Joints
- SI Joints in Triangle & Side Angle
- SI Joints in Warrior I
- SI Joints in Seated Forward Bends
- SI Joints in Seated Twists
Troubleshooting the Lower Back
- Overview of Lower Back Challenges
- Overview of Lower Back Anatomy
- Lower Back in Forward Folds
- Lower Back in Backbend Family
- Lower Back in Twists
- Lower Back in Side Bends
Troubleshooting the Shoulders
- Overview of Shoulder Challenges & Anatomy
- Shoulders in Down Dog & Upward Bow Family
- Plank + Side Plank Family
- Chaturanga Family
- Bridge + Bow Family
- Binding Family
12 Months of 30-Minute Practices
3/1/24: Supporting Your Knees with Strong & Long Quads
4/1/24: Simple Flow for Healthy Knees
5/1/24: Working with Troubled Hamstrings
6/1/24: Supporting Your Hips with Strength
7/1/24: Modified Twists & Forward Folds for Sacroiliac Challenges
8/1/24: Lower-Back Care, Part 1
9/1/24: Lower-Back Care, Part 2
10/1/24: Lower-Back Care, Part 3
11/1/24: Lower-Back Care, Part 4
12/1/24: Supporting Your Shoulders with Strength
1/1/25: Releasing Tension in Your Shoulders and Neck
2/1/25: Supporting Your Elbows and Wrists with Strength and Technique
New! Monthly Asana Class
Each month you will receive a 30-minute recorded asana practice.
The practices will help you apply your learning on the mat!
See the full list of monthly topics below*
Here's a look at 30-minute practices
3/1/24: Supporting Your Knees with Strong & Long Quads
4/1/24: Simple Flow for Healthy Knees
5/1/24: Working with Troubled Hamstrings
6/1/24: Supporting Your Hips with Strength
7/1/24: Modified Twists & Forward Folds for Sacroiliac Challenges
8/1/24: Lower-Back Care, Part 1
9/1/24: Lower-Back Care, Part 2
10/1/24: Lower-Back Care, Part 3
11/1/24: Lower-Back Care, Part 4
12/1/24: Supporting Your Shoulders with Strength
1/1/25: Releasing Tension in Your Shoulders and Neck
2/1/25: Supporting Your Elbows and Wrists with Strength and Technique
Two Training Choices:
Self-paced or Group Call Option
In both, the Self-Paced and Group Call options, students receive 100% of the coursework (the lectures, the practices, and the manual). The primary difference is that the Group Call option allows you to interact directly and ask questions of Jason in a group Zoom setting once/month for 12 months.
Group Call Option
Choose this option if you'd like to move at your own pace, while also having a monthly opportunity to interact with Jason and ask questions.
This is for the "I-need-accountability-and-like-to-ask-questions" student!
You will receive:
- All recorded lectures & content
- 12 months of 30-minute practices
- 100+ page manual
- Access to all content for 12 months
- ➡ Plus 12 live 60-minute live calls with Jason (one call per month)
**Scroll down to the FAQ for the live call dates
Self-Paced
Choose this option if you are good at keeping yourself motivated and on-task or if you are not looking for an interactive environment to ask Jason questions and get to know your peers.
This is for the “I-got-this-let-me-do-my-thing” student!
You will receive:
- All recorded lectures & content
- 12 months of 30-minute practices
- 100+ page manual
- Access to all content for 12 months
A recap of what you will receive...
High-Quality Lectures & Practices
As soon as you register, you will have
access to all six modules broken down
into digestible topics.
A Flexible Schedule
Go at your own pace and watch the videos
as many times as you need to. You will
have access to ALL course content
for 12 months from your date of purchase.
(After 12 months, you will be given the option to extend
your access for a nominal monthly service fee.)
A Comprehensive Course Manual
The 100+ page downloadable course
manual ensures that you walk away
knowing how to create curriculum for
your weekly classes, workshops, and
series' in a way that is authentic to you.
Yoga Alliance CEUs
This course is registered with
Yoga Alliance. If you choose self-paced,
you will receive 30 Continuing
Education Units (CEUs). If you choose
Group Call, you will receive 42 CEUs.
Hi -- I'm Jason.
I’ve been teaching yoga for more than 20 years teaching yoga and training yoga teachers.
For the past 10 years, I’ve honed my approach to yoga anatomy by looking to peers outside of the yoga community, in the fields of physical therapy, orthopedics, traumatology, and sports medicine.
In this training, I shed light on the fine line you need to walk as a yoga teacher to offer your students the help that they need without diagnosing.
To do this, you need to be intimately familiar with common yoga injuries, why they happen, and how you can offer sequences and modifications that will lessen the probability of creating or worsening injuries.
This work is ongoing for all of us because no two bodies are the same. But that’s also what makes it so interesting and fun to share!
Frequently asked questions
HOW LONG WILL I HAVE ACCESS TO THE COURSE CONTENT?
You will have access to all of the course content -- including replays of the live calls with Jason -- for one year of your unique date of purchase.
So, if you purchased the course on February 20th, 2024, you will have access until February 20th, 2025.
WHAT ARE THE DATES FOR THE LIVE CALLS?
Live calls are available if you choose the Group Call Option. Here are the dates for the live calls:
March 18 at 4pm
April 22 at 8am
May 20 at 4pm
June 17 at 8am
July 22 at 4pm
August 19 at 8am
September 23 at 4pm
October 7 at 8am
November 18 at 4pm
December 9 at 8am
** Next dates shift from Mondays to Thursdays**
January 9 at 4pm
February 20 at 8am
WHY ISN'T THE WHOLE COURSE DELIVERED VIA LIVESTREAM?
The bulk of the course is delivered through pre-recorded videos. We deliver our courses this way for two reasons: First, it gives you the flexibility to move through the content on your own timeline. Second, it allows you to join from a different time zone. And third, it ensures high quality video and no interruptions -- the last thing we want is for you to experience a disruption in the internet connection during a class or lecture!
If you sign up for the Group Call Option, you will have live Zoom calls once/month with Jason for 60 minutes. This will allow you to ask questions.
CAN I GET CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS FOR YOGA ALLIANCE FOR THIS COURSE?
Yes, you will earn 30 CEUs for the Self-Paced Option of this course. If you select the Group Call Option, you will receive 42 CEUs. After you've completed the course, you will contact Yoga Alliance to register those hours.
I'M NOT SURE IF I CAN MAKE IT TO ALL THE LIVE Q&A CALLS. IS THAT OK?
Yes! If you can't make it to the calls, you can watch them on replay -- we will post the links shortly thereafter.
WHAT IS YOUR REFUND POLICY?
We do not offer refunds for this course.
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