Yoga teachers training
COURSE PROGRAMME
The training for Corrective Therapeutic Yoga teachers is the second level of education and represents a direct continuation of students’ prior knowledge, acquired in our Yoga Instructors training course.
During this course, future yoga teachers will learn, in detail, about different degenerative changes and sequences for each individual problem (scoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis, spondylosis).
Being that Corrective Therapeutic Yoga improves the health of the entire human body, this second part of the training will focus on the sequences which regulate various systems – nervous, respiratory, digestive, urinary, immune, reproductive and cardiovascular, as well as on those sequences which regulate blood pressure and hormones. Also, students will master the sequences addressing everyday issues (menopause, menstrual problems, sciatic problems, stiffness of body parts, obesity, convalescent therapies, etc.).
This second course is an overall upgrade of students’ knowledge. Their basic knowledge of asanas will expand and they will also learn new, prop-based asanas. The study of Ayurveda, the theory of Yoga and the study of new scientific discoveries are further evolved and understood and their use in the practice of Yoga is introduced to students.
What’s specific about the second year of study is that our students learn how to make individual therapeutic charts and apply them in their own practice. This is something that makes us unique in this part of Europe.
TRAINING SCHEDULE (300 HOURS)
COURSE SUBJECTS
THEORY
1. Theory of Yoga: parallels between Patanjali system and the modern western yoga
2. Latest scientific discoveries and their use in the practice of Corrective Therapeutic Yoga
3. The study of yoga anatomy and physiology (functional anatomy, anthropomotorics and biomechanics)
4. The integration and therapeutic properties of Pranayama
5. Ayurveda (pulse diagnostics, Pancha Karma)
6. The methodology of teaching and performing Corrective Therapeutic Yoga
7. Corrective Therapeutic Yoga for the disbalance of the immune, nervous, respiratory, digestive, hormonal, genitourinary and cardiovascular system
8. Corrective Therapeutic Yoga for correcting degenerative spinal changes (scoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis, spondylosis)
9. The correct order of asanas with props and sequencing of asanas
10. Techniques of meditation and their importance
11. Integrative approach to life with Corrective Therapeutic Yoga
PRACTICAL WORK
1. The methodology of teacher’s assistance and demonstrations to his/her students
2. Types of props and the correct order of asanas with props
3. The practice of Pranayama in Corrective Therapeutic Yoga
4. Asanas in Corrective Therapeutic Yoga for specific disbalances of different systems (immune, muscle, respiratory, digestive, hormonal, genitourinary and cardiovascular system, feminine problems)
5. Asanas for correcting degenerative spinal changes (scoliosis, kyphosis, lordosis, spondylosis)
6. The basics of sequencing, aiming at various desired effects
7. Sequencing for specific system disbalances
8. Creating a therapeutic chart
COURSE LITERATURE
Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga Self-taught by Andre van Lysebeth
Functional anatomy by Duško Spasovski
A guide to perfect health by Nancy Lonsdorf M.D.