Weekend Immersion January 25-26, 2025
The Yoga Anatomy Bootcamp
A Weekend Intensive to Transform Your Teaching and Your Practice
Was the anatomy section of your yoga teacher training a blur?
Did it leave you craving more?
Do you simply want to understand what you are doing on the mat?
Imagine this: You feel confident and competent in yoga anatomy and physiology, you lose the guilt about things you think you should know, and you become a better guide for students and others because of your knowledge.
Whether you bring this to the classroom as a teacher of asana or you bring this to your own mat for practice: Years of frustration -- dissolved.
Where you are going...
🦴 Your cuing is optimized
🦴You individualize asana to each student's body as
needed
🦴 You feel like a ninja, both exploring new approaches to asana, and chopping through all the bad information that infiltrates the yoga and movement space.
How the Magic Happens
Immerse yourself in learning, led by a doctor of physical therapy and long time multi-disciplinary yoga teacher.
You will be in a small, live cohort with your peers, with plenty of time to reflect, absorb, and ask questions.
Live sessions are recorded, and you will have access to all recordings for the 30 days past the last day of the bootcamp (because we need deadlines!).
Module over module, we will build on previous knowledge to deepen our understanding.
Break through the Noise
There is a lot of "noise" in the yoga anatomy and movement space. Conflicting and non-evidence based information is everywhere, and it is exhausting.
This bootcamp will help you to distill a lot of that "noise" and cut through confusion.
Bootcamp Details
Days: Saturday January 25, Sunday Jan 26th, 2025
Times: 9:00am-5pm Eastern Standard Time (New York Time) with a 1 hour break from 12:30-1:30pm
Location: Zoom. Please have the Zoom application downloaded onto your device (we highly recommend using a computer or tablet rather than a phone).
Recordings: If you can't attend the entire thing live, no problem. Each session's recording will be posted that evening, so that you can catch up soon afterward. You will have access for 30 days afterward to continue reviewing, learning, re-absorbing, and asking questions.
Community / Chat: You'll have access to a group chat where you can ask questions before, during, and for 1 month afterward.
Movement vs. Lecture: There will be a lot to learn and to smash in, but we will carve time for at least a half hour of movement daily to break up the lecture (most likely 15 minutes at the start or middle of each session).
When the program wraps, you'll have clear next steps for going deeper and getting ongoing support and education in anatomy.
Continuing Education Hours: Yoga Teachers are eligible for 16 continuing education hours through this program (which includes some independent study, review and community participation). Yoga Alliance recognizes this course as synchronous learning, where teachers and students gather at the same time in a virtual space and interact in real-time, and it counts toward continuing education hours in the same way as in person learning.
Yoga Alliance (USA) requires that all registered yoga teachers complete at least 30 hours of continuing education every three years. This course qualifies under the topic of anatomy. Once you have completed this program, you will log in to the Yoga Alliance website and manually enter the program's hours and upload your certificate.
Curriculum
The following 10 part curriculum roughly follows the order in which we will study.
Anatomy & Physiology Terminology (Vocabulary + More)
The Spine & The Core
The Pelvis, Sacroiliac Joints and the Pelvic Floor
Hips & Their Labrums, Arthritis, Etc
Knees & Joint Structure
Sunday
Feet & Ankles, Balance and More
The Shoulder Girdle & Upper Body Demands of Asana
The Neck, Elbows and Wrists
The Nervous System, Breathing and Beyond
Integration: Sequencing, Planning, and Sense-Making (as time permits)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
How is this bootcamp different than the Yoga Anatomy Mentorship?
The bootcamp builds on the latest information taught in our mentorship but in a smaller package.
Like a balsalmic reduction, you'll get the same learning in more concentrated format. The biggest distinction is that the mentorship, once you join, gives you access for life to ongoing office hours and the on demand recordings. Access to this bootcamp course material cuts off 30 days after our last live session.
Deadlines help many of us to participate more fully! This is especially true in the online courses space, where "access for life" often means we never fully finish anything.
But there is no either-or. At the end of this program, you will have the option to join the mentorship at simply the difference in cost. It's the best of both worlds. (P.S. If you joined our anatomy mentorship at ANY time in the past, and want to participate in these live sessions, simply email info@yogaanatomyacademy.com)
Do you have to be a yoga teacher to join this program?
Absolutely not. There will be regular yoga students and yoga teachers all in this together.
What if I already know some anatomy but I want to learn more?
While we have had massage therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists and medical doctors all complete similar programs of ours, there is the possibility that some of what you learn will be review.
Two things truly differentiate this bootcamp from other yoga anatomy programs in existence: 1) it is taught by a licensed doctor of physical therapy who continues to treat patients in a one one one setting and 2) your instructor has taught yoga anatomy for over a decade, keeps up with the research, and is not "selling" you on or justifying any particular style of yoga or even movement. If this movement neutrality and evidence based approach is new to you, it could change how you understand movement and yoga anatomy going forward.
Due to the live classes, the small group set-up and the instructor's background, you will have the opportunity within this program to dive much deeper than in other anatomy courses in the yoga world.
Your Instructor
Dr. Ariele Foster
Ariele is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, who started teaching yoga in 2001 and hasn't stopped.
In addition to her thriving clinical practice in Washington, DC (Wellilo Clinic), Ariele is the founder of Yoga Anatomy Academy, and has written for and led online courses with Yoga Journal (she the was cover model for Yoga Journal Australia in 2018) and Vesselify.
Ariele brings 25+ years of experience as a dedicated student of yoga (trained in Kripalu, YogaWorks, Anusara, Hatha, Therapeutics and more) and has been teaching yoga classes, privates, workshops and leading retreats since 2001. For more information, see https://wellilo.com/ or https://yogaanatomyacademy.com or her YouTube channel.
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Reviews
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Top Rated
Cassie Kitcoff
The Anatomy Course every yoga instructor should take
I signed up for the course with the desire to increase my knowledge of the body and be able to provide better information to my private clients dealing with various injuries/limitations. I now feel much more confident adapting classes to their needs and also when to refer out to other specialists. She provides clear slides, explanations and many personal stories that allow the anatomy to "come to life". I appreciated that Ariele focuses a lot on bigger picture concepts so that I could understand how the body works together, why we may choose to move certain ways and how to apply it in my teaching. I hope more teachers take this course so that we as a yoga community can increase the caliber of sound anatomy knowledge in yoga classes!
Fran Silverberg
Yoga Bootcamp
Studying anatomy from a physical therapist and a yoga teacher is the ideal way to learn yoga anatomy. Dr. Ariele Foster in her straight-forward and friendly manner helped me to better understand how to teach and practice with safety and intelligence. There were questions that never got answered or perhaps we didn't yet know what questions to ask in the anatomy part of yoga teacher training. So, this bootcamp is actually perfect after teaching for a while. Also, things change over time and we may learn that some of what we were taught in the past may not be the best way to teach or practice now. Additionally, the live sessions with opportunities to ask questions and hear other student's questions, plus the recordings, reinforced the material. I know that there is still more for me to learn and understand so I am glad that I continue to have access to the materials. Greatly appreciate I "discovered" Ariele and the bootcamp!
Kate Wyman
The best training!
I am so happy I took this training. I signed up because I wanted to improve my knowledge of anatomy in order to support my yoga students. This training satisfied that goal and beyond! Ariele is extremely knowledgeable, very accessible, and a great teacher. I truly feel this training has improved how I teach. I loved tuning into our live sessions each week. I felt like I could absorb the material, put it into action with my students, and come to the next session with any questions. I can’t recommend this course enough!!
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