embodyoga™ 200 Hour Teacher Training • Modules •

Module 1

• Blueprint for Optimal Movement 1: Cellular Breathing – Navel Radiation
• Principle of a Quiet Spine
• Discriminating Core & Periphery – Finding Union
• Standing Postures 1 – Our Foundation: Pelvis, Legs & Feet
• Surya Namaskar: Sun Salutations & Vinyasa
  
• Skeletal Structure
• Ease in the Ilio–psoas Complex
• Yield and Push of the Legs
• Inversions 1: Shoulderstand & Handstand
• Pranayama 1: Ujjayi
• Yoga Nidra: Tantric Technique for Deep Rest

Module 2

• Standing Postures 2 – Dynamics & Alignment, Integrating Upper & Lower Body
• Ribs, Shoulder Girdle, Arms and Hands: Alignment & Integrated Movement
• Yield and Push of the Arms
• Lower Back Fundamentals: Sacroiliac & Lumbar Health
• Standing and Supine Forward Bends
• Lungs, Conchas of the Nose & Breathing Diaphragm
• Embodying Organs & Glands
• Breath in Asana Practice
• Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga
• Cultivating a Rewarding Personal Practice
• Meditation with Patty Townsend

Module 3

• Principles of Backbends 1: Organ & Glandular Support
• Arm Balances 1
• Twists and Hip Openers 1
• Inversions 2: Headstand and Shoulderstand Cycle
• Savasana
• Pranayama 2: Viloma, Prana Vayus
• Bandhas – Integrating Core
• The Kosas: Spiralic Sheaths of Awareness
• The Systems of Yoga
• Meditation with Patty Townsend

Module 4

• Blueprint for Optimal Movement 2: Spinal Patterns
• Integrated Whole Body Movement in Yoga Practice
• Precision Vinyasa — Flow and Hold
• Neuro–Endocrine System
• Balancing Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Nervous Systems
• Temporal-Mandibular Joint, the Skull and Palate
• Backbends 2
• Twists, Hips and Arm Balances 2
• Pranayama 3: Nadi Shodhana and Kumbhaka
• Restorative Yoga
• Chakras, Nadis and Kundalini
• Tantra Yoga: The Expression of Life Lived in Fullness

Teaching principles integrated throughout the program

• Principles of Observation, Instruction, Demonstration & Touch
• Art and Science of Sequencing
• Planning and Teaching Classes
• Principles of Teaching
• Philosophy and Ethics of Teaching
• Teaching as a Profession

When the body is cleansed, the mind purified and the senses controlled, joyful awareness, needed to realize the inner self, also comes.
~Yoga Sutras