Anatomy

My approach is a practical and comprehensive one to provide the need-to-know facts for a solid understanding of how the human body works.

As a practitioner you’ll get to experiment with familiar poses approached from a new direction.

As a teacher you’ll take this knowledge and see exactly how to apply it in class.

It’s not necessary to memorize hundreds of muscles and bones to apply science to yoga.

It will be best to try and focus on one aspect of a pose at a time..  The word for “focus” in Sanskrit is Drishti and that is what you want to do.  This will help you in not getting overwhelmed by the subject matter and allow a deeper level of understanding.

Practicing yoga is an exploration of our individual bodies, minds and spirituality.  Each practitioner needs to find their own best interpretation of each of these components and our job as instructors is to facilitate that journey.

Anatomy describes the structure of how our body is physically put together, physiology explains how all the components of the human organism work, individually and together, to maintain life.

Our program covers all the bodily systems playing a major role in human anatomy. The material is presented in a practical and comprehensive manner. The focus of the course is on the need-to-know facts that must be understood in order to pursue yoga to its highest physical level. It’s ideal for anyone requiring a solid understanding of how the human body works.

You will discover:

• Why a little bit of movement in a lot of places is healthy for all our joints, and how to use that idea for deciding how to address a challenge.
• How to feel the pathways of weight through the spine, and what that knowledge does for healthy movement patterns.
• Physiology of bones and how they respond to our movement patterns.
• How stress (the right amount) is healthy for bones.
• What homeostasis is, and how “balance” is a dynamic state.
• How the ligaments of the spine create pathways of connection from the skull to the coccyx that can integrate the whole spine.
• Layers of bone and the relationships between them.
• How the articulation of the forearm is essential to the health of the wrist and shoulder.
• How synovial joints work, how to keep them healthy & what damages them.
• What keeps our disks healthy and what it means when a disk bulges . . . and whether it will heal.
• Whether ligaments and cartilage can heal after injury.
• How to move away from telling students how to do something “right”, and towards creating an opportunity for embodied experience.

• Tools for talking about movement and bodies without being “prescriptive.”
• And much more!

As a practitioner you’ll get to experiment with familiar poses approached from a new direction.

As a teacher you’ll take this knowledge and see exactly how to apply it in class.

It’s not necessary to memorize hundreds of muscles and bones to apply science to yoga.

It will be best to try and focus on one aspect of a pose at a time..  The word for focus in Sanskrit is Drishti and that is what you want to do.  This will help you in not getting overwhelmed by the subject matter and allow a deeper level of understanding.

Practicing yoga is an exploration of our individual bodies, minds and spirituality.  Each practioner needs to find their own best interpretation of each of these components and our job as instructors is to facilitate that journey.

Anatomy describes the structure of how our body is physically put together, physiology explains how all the components of the human organism work, individually and together, to maintain life.