A minimum of 460 contact hours within 640 course hours over three years
- Yoga Sadhana – Yoga Practice
- Individual lessons for personal practice
- Group workshops to develop self planning, planning for others and observational skills.
- Building and working with basic, group class and personalised Learning or Healing Yoga practices.
- Yoga Sutra – Yoga Psychology
- A in-depth study of Chapters One and Two of the Yoga Sutra.
- Roots of Yoga and Related Texts
- Definition of Yoga according to root texts.
- Approaches to and evolution of Yoga.
- Overview of related texts
- Asana – Yoga Postures
- Definition according to Yoga texts.
- Detailed study of Primary Asana.
- Introduction to Intermediate Asana.
- Overview of Advanced Asana.
- Classification, sequence building, compensation and breathing.
- Movement, stay, variation and modification.
- Asana with sound, Mudra and Bandha.
- Apprenticeship into the Art and theory of observation in practice.
- Pranayama – Seated Yoga Breathing
- Definition according to Yoga texts.
- Detailed study of important techniques and theory of Prana and Nadi.
- Preparation, classification, components and sequence building within Pranayama.
- Dhyana – Yoga Meditation
- Introduction into the various aspects of meditation within practice.
- Basic techniques applied through Asana and Pranayama.
- Refinement of practice through meditation.
- Yoga Cikitsa – Yoga Therapeutics
- The therapeutic possibilities of Yoga in working with problems or illness.
- Study of Ayurveda and its therapeutic links with Yoga.
- Viniyoga – Application of Yoga
- The Teachings from T Krishnamacharya and TKV Desikachar.
- Eastern and Western Teaching Methodology and the student teacher relationship.
- Advantages and disadvantages of individual and group tuition.
- Application of Yoga for individual and group situations.
- Organisational and Ethical aspects of teaching.
- Introduction to counselling skills.
- Sanskrit and Nada – Yoga of Sound
- Introducing the Romanised Sanskrit alphabet.
- Understanding the important names in Asana and Pranayama.
- Application of voice work and techniques for sound in practice.
- Reciting the Yoga Sutra and Yoga teachings.
- The Human System
- Study of anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology and kinesiology.
- Svadhyaya – Home Study
- Formal home study of a practical nature through reading, practice planning, theory questions and personal practice.
- Completion of final year Yoga Sutra study project.
- Completion of 80 hours external group and one to one teaching.
