This is the recording of our first ever Saturday School, a series of online continuing ed workshops for yoga instructors. This program is comprised of four workshops all about Understanding and Sequencing for Posterior Chain Activating Peak Poses. This course counts as 10 non-contact hours towards continuing ed as a yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. After taking the course, you’ll simply email us to schedule a quick call with Candace to answer any questions you have, and complete a verbal quiz demonstrating that you understand the information. Please note: upon purchasing this digital product, you will receive an automatic email. You MUST open the email and download the file within 24hrs of purchase, or the link will be erased. Once you download the file, you’ll have lifetime access.

Workshop 1: Understanding what’s going on

Workshop 1: Posterior Chain Course, Pt 1. In this 2.5 hour workshop, we will set the foundation for our course by covering:

• Activities of daily living and how they impact our posture

• Basics of Mobility

• Discussion on major joints and their movement

• Lecture on intentional sequencing for the posture we're seeing

• Practice - We'll do a Posterior Chain Strengthening yoga class together

• Lecture: Anatomy lesson of the posterior chain

• Understanding the basics of how to bring people to a more muscularly balanced state

• Lecture: Reciprocal inhibition and dissection of the sequence we did together

Workshop 2: How to Release Tightness from the Body

Posterior Chain Course, Pt 2. In this 2.5 hour workshop, we will dive a bit deeper, building upon the foundation set from part 1. We’ll cover:

• Principles of Foam rolling

• Foam roll class - Together we will foam roll the entire body.

• Discuss different types of foam rollers

• Discuss different muscle release tools

• Lecture and Practice: Different types of stretching, their purpose and how to incorporate into yoga class sequencing

  • Active

  • Passive

  • Dynamic

  • PNF

• Discussion of:

  • Neck and forward head position

  • Chest

  • Upper traps

  • Anterior and Lateral Hip Joint

Workshop 3: How to Strengthen the Posterior Chain

Saturday School: Posterior Chain Course, Pt 3. In this workshop, we will continue to build upon our learning and cover bodyweight movements and light resistance movements to strengthen the following:

• Glute Max

• Glute Med

• Lower Back

• Mid Back

• Upper back

• Shoulders

Workshop 4: How to Sequence for Posterior Chain Strength

Saturday School: Posterior Chain Course, Pt 4. In this workshop, we will use the principles of Intelligent Anatomical Sequencing and sequence for three different peak poses.