THE EMBODIED ANATOMY LAB: SPINE SERIES
Learn how to work with the spine, and back pain in yourself and in your students. Discover how to integrate the wisdom of biomechanics with the beauty and spirit of yoga.
A multi-sensory journey through your SPine
Back pain is super common, and many of your students suffer from it. But when they ask you about it, you are not sure what to advise.
And maybe as you have been practicing more, your own back also hurts sometimes, and you aren’t sure what is causing it. Even some of your teachers have back issues, and you don’t want that long term.
Or else you learned names for muscles and bones, but you are confused about how they work and what you really can do to protect the spine.
Your yoga teacher training had 20 hours of Anatomy, but you don’t feel confident in what you know, or how to explain it?
How do you improve pain in yourself and your students to heal and prevent injuries?
EMBODIED ANATOMY LAB
BEGINS 21 September 2021
Do You Want to feel more confident To Work with Back Pain?
Learn about your design and function, in playful, multisensory ways.
Look, touch, try, feel, and play to learn.
Explore how you can move with, instead of fighting, your design.
Learn techniques to help students with injuries, and heal your own injuries and pain.
Play with different approaches to asana, using the new information and sensitivity we develop.
Unpick yoga technique to explore and feel which alignment cues support and uplift us, and which cues lead us to pain or injury.
Combine anatomical understanding with mentoring and yoga
DURING THE EMBODIED ANATOMY LAB YOU WILL RECEiVE A COMBINATION OF Live AND PRE-RECORDED RESOURCES TO HELP YOU TEACH WHAT YOU LEARN
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Dedicated Q&A sessions, for review and clarity Mentoring sessions for teaching strategies, peer-support and feedback
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Group and peer to peer connection and support community
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Resources to help you experiment with teaching new material
04
Strategy sessions for students with injuries or movement challenges
What will you learn with this Course?
The course is consists of 4 EMbodied ANatomy Webinars on the following topics:
The Spine in Flexion and Extension
The Spine in Sidebending and Twisting
The Psoas Muscle
Abdominal and back muscles and the Thoracolumbar Fascia
1 backbend workshop to apply our learning to our yoga practices
1 Q&A to review, clarify and reiterate any confusing points
COURSE SYLLABUS
PLUS EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIAL
All WEBINAR AND workshops ARE roughly 2 hours, 2 - 4 PM UK TIME.
Replays available for those who miss the live session, or for anyone to reivew.
A detailed handout for each webinar
Bonus video materials and reviews
Access to Mollie via email for questions
A dedicated online group to explore how to integrate and teach the material
Special gifts and invitations along the way
Feel better, move better, teach better
WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE DIFFERENT?
EXPLORING MOVEMENT BEYOND JUST JOINTS & MUSCLES
PRACTICAL, HANDS ON, MULTI SENSORY LEARNING THAT MAKES AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT
STUDENT CENTRED TEACHING THAT IS SHARED LIVE AND INTERACTIVE
ACCESS LEARNING THROUGH YOUR OWN BODY
STRATEGY SESSION FOR STUDENTS WITH INJURIES OR MOVEMENT CHALLENGES
DEDICATED Q&A AND MENTORING TO INTEGRATE YOUR LEARNING AND YOUR TEACHING
“The course was well paced, thorough, engaging, insightful.”
“It gave me chances to engage with my body on a deeper level and helped put a lot of puzzle pieces together in terms of anatomy, terminology, visualisation as a tool for movement, injury prevention and listening to what your body is telling you.”
Loved it!
JEN C.
“This course brings anatomy alive.”
“As you become more sensitive, build the capacity to feel subtlety, the inner natural movements begin to inform the outer movements. And that's a new way to think about and feel into alignment - internally informed by body versus externally enforced upon body.”
LIINA T.
“Mollie is super generous with her knoweldge and gives of it freely.”
“It is full of moments of aha & wow! Learning in the most fun and accessible way. I loved it. “
ZOFIA H.
“The sessions have been so helpful in my body awareness and embodiment”
“In the breathing workshop, I knew the theory, but it is so helpful to really feel/visualise it. It’s incredible the difference the embodied element makes.”
D.
YOUR INVESTMENT
THE EMBODIED ANATOMY LAB 60 HOUR CPD COURSE (Live & via Recording)
£999
4 MODULES
THE EMBODIED ANATOMY LAB SPINE SERIES
(15 HRS)
£295
7 WEBINARS
THE PSOAS, ABDOMINAL & BACK MUSCLE WEBINARS
(5 HRS)
£120
TWO WEBINARS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
HOW IS THE COURSE DELIVERED?
Webinars are shared live over Zoom, and recorded. They will then be accessible from an online portal, where handouts and additional information is also shared.
Students will be invited to join a social media group, and will have study buddies and assignments that can be done with a partner or solo.
WHERE DOES THE INFORMATION COME FROM?
This is a somatically led course, but the material is from outside of the yoga tradition. This is because some yoga anatomy teachers use anatomical language to justify "yoga cues". In this course we question everything, so it is important that the anatomical work comes from outside yoga. Many of the techniques, exercises and images derive from the Franklin Method. Others come from Body Mind Centring, Scaravelli yoga, Contact Improvisation, Dance and other somatic disciplines.
IS THERE ANY HOMEWORK OR READING?
You will receive handouts and worksheets that are optional, but obviously will support your own learning and development. There will be a quiz at the end of the 4 anatomy webinars, to help clarify what information will go into the Q&A. Some additional readings (and bonus videos) will be provided, of varying lengths, to stimulate your creativity and explore different movement possibilities.
IS IT FOR YOGA TEACHERS? CAN ANYONE JOIN?
The material is taught in a way that general familiarity with your body and movement will be helpful. But, anyone with a body, who would like to learn more about their body, is welcome to join. We will connect the anatomical material to yoga poses, but it is not required that you know or practice them, to see and understand the application.
Past students have included physio’s, massage therapists, Osteopathic students, Pilates and Pregnancy yoga teachers.
WHAT IF I TEACH A SPECIFIC YOGA STYLE?
This information in this course is about how your body is designed to function, the way your bones move together, the kinds of movements that activate your muscles, etc. It is taught in a non-dogmatic way, so we will be experimenting to figure out what works best for us, and how we can make our poses feel better, stronger and more efficient.
It is true that some people end up questioning some of the information they received from their teachers, and exploring whether they could share yoga in a better way. However, some students also find that their teachers had very good explanations for poses, and now they understand why scientifically.
CAN I USE THE COURSE FOR CPD?
This course is accredited by Yoga Alliance Professionals and can be used as CPD.
