Course curriculum

A course built through practice, enquiry and teaching.

Six connected modules develop your own yoga practice alongside the knowledge, awareness and practical experience needed to teach with confidence.

Year One & Year Two

Six connected
modules.

The course moves from personal exploration into confident, responsive teaching, with each module building on the last.

1 · The Footprints of Yoga

Explore Vanda Scaravelli’s approach through breath, gravity and release, alongside foundation asana, yoga history and philosophy, anatomy, meridians and reflective learning.

2 · Breath, Ground, Release

Deepen the relationship between breath, gravity and movement. Explore pranayama, energy channels, meridians, the Bhagavad Gita and Hatha Yoga Pradipika.

3 · Sharing Yoga

Move towards teaching through Ahimsa, safe and effective practice, ethics, professional development, self-evaluation, asana, pranayama and meditation.

4 · The Matrix of the Meridians

Develop awareness of the energy body and its relationship with teaching through meridians, chakras, East Asian medicine, complex asana and body systems.

5 · Tranquility in Movement

Explore meditation, Yoga Nidra, Yin and Yang, meridian pairs, Kriyas, Bandhas, pranayama, sound and balance in personal practice and teaching.

6 · Teaching for All

Bring your learning together through adaptable teaching, meditation, professional development, touch and adjustment, individual needs and the Yamas and Niyamas.

Hands-on Qigong teacher training practice outdoors
The pathway

300 hours first.
500 hours if you continue.

Year One is a substantial 300-hour teacher training in its own right. Continue into Year Two for a further 200 hours of deeper practice, study and teaching development.

300 hr

Year One

Modules 1–3 · Personal practice · Teaching foundations · Reflective learning

→
+200 hr

Year Two

Modules 4–6 · Deeper study · Energy work · Advanced teaching development

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Woven through the course

More than
six modules.

Several strands run throughout the training, connecting personal practice, embodied understanding and practical teaching.

Holistic anatomy & physiology

Study anatomy through experience and theory, including connective tissue, fascia, tensegrity and the major body systems, with learning consolidated through practice.

Qigong · Shibashi Level 1

Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi brings 18 flowing movements together with breath and awareness and is integrated into the yoga training.

Teaching practice

Practise teaching, reflect, receive feedback and gradually develop a teaching voice that feels genuinely your own.

Yoga philosophy

Connect philosophy to lived practice through foundational yoga thought, the Bhagavad Gita, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Ahimsa, and the Yamas and Niyamas.

Meridians & the energy body

Explore meridians, energy channels and gates, Yin and Yang, chakras and their relationship with movement, asana and embodied awareness.

Meditation, breath & awareness

Pranayama, meditation, Yoga Nidra, Kriyas, Bandhas, sound and reflective practice develop alongside movement.

Teacher training

See how the course fits together.

Explore the full teacher training pathway, ask about the next intake or come to an open day to experience the approach for yourself.