Explore the poses through energetic and physical alignment.

Understand how to verbally cue with accuracy accessibly and skill.

Learn to observe the student and offer variations or modifications based on what you see.

Learn the sanskrit names and meaning for the poses.

Understand basic foundations of intelligent sequencing.

Become efficient at both planning sequences and sequencing in the moment.

Learn how to sequence for the varying levels from beginner to advanced.

Cultivate methods of implementing the foundational principles of sequencing efficiently and creatively.

How to practice and teach several forms of pranayama.

Know how and why you would offer different forms of pranayama based on multiple variables.

Develop and commit to a personal pranayama practice.

Explore varying styles of meditation according to the yoga traditions and texts.

Develop a simple and committed home meditation practice.

Understand how to lead meditation sessions to various levels of students.

Read, discuss, explore and learn from The Yoga Sutras and The Bhagavad Gita.

Be challenged to apply the philosophical principles of these texts to your daily life.

Grasp ways to teach the philosophy in a vinyasa class that are effective and accurate.

Learn to chant several key slokas from these texts and understand the translations.

Basic introduction to Sanskrit.

Develop your unique voice as a leader.

Understand how to hold the seat of the teacher with integrity.

Learn various methods for serving the many different types and levels of students that you will encounter.

Develop confidence as a teacher.

Understand how to manage teaching to both small and large groups.

Learn how to work with these components in your own practice as well as how to weave them skilfully and accessibly into your teaching.

Chakras: energetic centers.

Koshas: energetic layers that range from outermost to innermost.

Nadis: the intricate system of energetic anatomy.

Vayus: the inner winds.

Understand what mantra is and how to use it in your own practice.

Become confident offering mantra in class and leading a group.

Become proficient at several different mantras through memorization, repetition, and understanding the translation.

Curiosity

Self-Knowledge

Perspective

Communication + Listening

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)