25-hour Functional Anatomy for Mastering Vinyasa
Upper Body
An In-Depth Exploration of the Functional Anatomy of the Upper Body
Certified by TYP & Yoga Alliance
Location: Study Society, London
Dates: 14th, 15th, 16th June 2024
Faculty: Jamie Clarke
£100 deposit
£550 full price
What’s Included: Tuition and materials. Upon completion of hours, students will receive a 25-hour certification, which contributes to your Yoga Alliance, registered RYT 500 accreditation.
An Upper Body Experience.
This course will be for current teachers and yoga students who have a committed yoga practice. It will encompass Upper Body anatomy as a focus with connected additional analysis of the torso & spine.
Course Intention
~ To delve deeply into our structural and bio-mechanical anatomy possibilities, identifying exactly how all these differences play out within our Vinyasa postures within a dynamic practice.
~ To breakdown and analyze Vinyasa postures functionally, asking what each posture practically addresses, what could be more efficient, and most importantly, what is safe.
~ To strip back the layers of a pre-conceived alignment one size fits all approach and really delve into seeing, understanding and therefore effectively practicing and teaching what is appropriate for the individual.
~ To challenge and transform even the most seasoned of practitioners, guiding participants to interiorizing their practice inwards to their experience, thus realising and re-connecting to the true essence of the yoga discipline.
What you will learn
~ Appreciation of Yin Yoga as a functional practice and as a
~ Upper Body range of motion comparisons and testing methods
~ Anatomical principles of Tension & Compression
~ Theoretical Anatomy Framework 14-10-7, as a structured
~ Understanding the different practitioner experiences- related to individual anatomical differences
~ Functional Teaching Methodology for Vinyasa Yoga
~ Applying skeletal knowledge (tension and compression)
~ Skills of ‘functional adjusting’, intelligent use of props, and how
~ Functional tools & techniques including adjusting & language emphasis, as part of an individualised approach to Vinyasa yoga
A typical day
9:00 Meditation / Pranayama
9:15 Functional Yin to Yang Practice
11:00 Theoretical Anatomy Analysis
11:30 Applied Anatomy Analysis
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Applied Anatomy Review & Functional Teaching Methodology
2:30 Vinyasa Anatomy Laboratory
3:30 Functional Methods and Language
4:30 Core Belief Work & Breathing Pranayama
5.30 Short Functional Vinyasa Practice
6.00 Close
This training is for You
~ Current teachers and yoga students who have a committed yoga practice
~ Vinyasa teachers looking to teach functionally
~ Individuals looking to deepen their knowledge of
Structural Anatomy
~ Teachers looking to become more skillful in
teaching functionally
~Practitioners looking to practice asana more
effectively and safely
~Teachers who are looking to upgrade their level of teaching
from an alignment-based approach to function,
in which students benefit from improved function,
variation & injury prevention.
This three-day experience will challenge and transform even the most seasoned of practitioners, guiding participants to interiorizing their practice inwards to their experience, thus realising and re-connecting to the true essence of the yoga discipline.
Come with an open mind and a courageous heart.
Your Teacher
Jamie Clarke
Jamie Clarke has been teaching Yoga since 2001. He is inspired by Yoga as a means of trauma resolution, psycho-emotional transformation, and actual spiritual growth. He is an E-RYT 200/ 500 teacher and a co-founder of The Yoga People.
His teaching approach recognizes uniqueness, using a customized ‘functional’ approach to separate out the conditioned, integrate the authentic, and develop the fullest expression of oneself.
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All TYP courses are rooted in the eastern traditions of Yoga, (Patanjali, Hatha, Vedanta & Tantra) as well as having significant influences of Shamanism and western Transpersonal Psychology. This means that a student’s lineage, background, childhood and early life parenting and conditioning can be investigated, as part of course practices and exercises.
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