cYs Yoga Practitioner Programme Topics

A minimum of 460 contact hours within 640 course hours over three years

1. 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.
2. Yoga Sutra – Yoga Psychology
   • A in-depth study of Chapters One and Two of the Yoga Sutra.
3. Roots of Yoga and Related Texts
   • Definition of Yoga according to root texts.
   • Approaches to and evolution of Yoga.
   • Overview of related texts
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Dhyana – Yoga Meditation
   • Introduction into the various aspects of meditation within practice.
   • Basic techniques applied through Asana and Pranayama.
   • Refinement of practice through meditation.
7. Yoga Cikitsa – Yoga Therapeutics
   • The therapeutic possibilities of Yoga in working with problems or illness.
   • Study of Ayurveda and its therapeutic links with Yoga.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. The Human System
    • Study of anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology and kinesiology.
11. 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.