THE BODY
This is a 50-hour online and self-paced Anatomy course for yoga teachers and movement professionals, which can be utilized as Continuing Education or as part of The Collective School of Yoga's 300-hour curriculum.
Become a little (or a lot!) obsessed with learning the structures and layers of the body, and how they move.
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Approachable Material
This course was created to help make complex topics easy to grasp and directly applicable to your teaching + practice.
Engaging Format
With video and audio lectures, practice videos, images from the cadaver lab, and supplemental reading, there is material for every learning style within the course.
Online + Self-Paced
Our curriculum is fully online and self-paced so that you can complete the coursework on your own timeline, from your own home.
An Integral Anatomy Approach
The history of studying the body is primarily rooted in Regional Anatomy, which looks at the body in separated pieces and parts. This is important for learning names and locations, but leaves out an important piece: how are the parts related to one another - and how do they work?
Integral anatomy is interested in looking at the continuities throughout the body, and the relationships that structures have to one another. This makes our approach to studying the body unique, and more importantly: functional. Rather than just labelling parts, we want you to learn how all systems work together to create functional movement.
+NERVOUS SYSTEM
Working with people means working with people's nervous systems, and we have the ability to directly impact somebody's nervous system state.
+MUSCLES, BONES, JOINTS
Learn the names, locations and movement patterns of major muscles, bones and joints, as well as how they function and adapt through movement.
+RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
One of the most impactful things a yoga teacher can teach is how to breathe well. This course will teach you about the mechanics + chemistry of breathing and how we can help students breathe more functionally.
+CONNECTIVE TISSUES
This broad category of tissues includes tendons, ligaments and fascia. We'll look closely at these structures and how they impact our movement.
+APPLICATIONS TO YOGA
We'll apply what we learn through the lens of yoga to facilitate more skillful postures, sequences, deliver more intelligent cueing and to see the body in a new light that helps us work with individual students needs.
+MORE
This course includes 17 chapters of in-depth, but approachable, material to learn all of the systems of the body -- as well as a handful of yoga practices with Nicole.
Cadaver Lab Imagery
We went into the cadaver lab and documented a week-long, full-body dissection project with images and videos utilized to share in the course. Textbooks are a fantastic learning resource, but they cannot begin to replicate 'the real thing.' Having videos and images straight from the lab will set this training material above and beyond any textbook-only approach. There is one chapter in this course based on material from the lab, and a few other images sprinkled throughout the training material.
You'll never look at the human body the same way after this.
Becoming a more skillful yoga or movement teacher is truly the tip of the iceberg for how impactful it is to learn about the human body. We hope you leave this course with a greater sense of awe, wonder, curiosity and gratitude for your own body - and a nudge to know it, love it and care for it well.
Online + Self-Paced | 50-hrs.
$350
Full course access
- Full-course access for one year
- Video + audio lectures with supplemental images and reading
- 3-month membership to our online yoga studio The Kula is included
- Note: you must purchase 2 textbooks separately (paperback or e-book)
Meet Nicole Wild
Hello! I'm Nicole Wild. I've been teaching yoga for over a decade, and have been facilitating yoga teacher trainings for something like 5 years now.
I have learned my anatomy through a mix of self-study, and time spent in the Cadaver Lab studying with Gil Hedley in his school of Integral Anatomy.
I have an insatiable curiosity for learning how the body works, and I'm grateful to get to share what I learn within yoga teacher training communities - emphasized by a sense of awe, wonder and gratitude for the human body.
I hope to study with you!
