Going Beyond the Physical Asana
Our team of highly experienced teachers, including Yoga Sanctuary founder Erica Tracey, have worked closely to ensure a varied and inspirational course, helping you to deepen your knowledge and develop an extensive set of skills and insights to bring into your teaching.
Expect to achieve a greater understanding of yoga way beyond the physical aspect, all that we cannot see or touch but can feel deeply. Transforming your own personal practice and gaining confidence and clarity to develop and nurture your own authentic teaching style while building it into a professional and sustainable career.
COURSE BREAKDOWN
- Earth Module
- Grounding & Going Deeper through Meditation/Pranayama/Asana
- Reach new heights through deep connection & awareness in your practice and teaching.
- Deepening & Strengthening our Standing & Seated poses through refinement.
- Breath-related restorative practice
- Cellular meditation and cellular touch
- Vayus, Koshas
- Perusha & Prakritti
- YIN & TCM focus on Women’s Health
- Working with the inner world of the meridians & traditional chinese medicine (TCM)
- Understanding the basic laws of nature as embodied in our biology teaches us to use this energy to create optimal health, balance and harmony, both in our yoga-practice and in our lives.
- Learn how to design classes that support balance, alignment, and energetic flow, while also exploring how these teachings can help students connect to their deeper layers of being.
- Air Module
- What does it mean to befriend our breath and how can it help us?
- Heart Energy to transform, purify and empower through Meditation/Pranayama/Asana.
- Go deeper into Backbends.
- Pose Improvement Strategies incorporating use of props to progress and regress poses.
- Embodying spinal integrity: how to move and use your spine in an optimal way.
- Nadis, Chakras, Gunas
- Water: Divine Feminine
- Creativity & Fluidity through Meditation/Pranayama/Asana
- Taking Vinyasa Flow to another level
- Advancing Twists & Hip poses
- Hip Stability / Mobility Sequences
- Find your Authentic Voice, Theming & Sequencing Strategies
- Finding your Flow with Vinyasa Refinement with Intelligence & Creativity
- Karma & Dharma
- Sacred Sound
- When to use the Singing Bowls in Yoga, Ceremony, Therapy & SoundBath.
- Sacred Sound Ceremony.
- Demystifying the art of Singing Mantra
- Introduction to Sacred SoundBath & the structure of SoundBath
- Hold Sacred Space & choreography of SoundBath
- How and when to introduce various Instruments, Voice, Recordings, Poetry, Song, Mantra
- Sustainability as a Teacher and Student
- Back Care & Yoga
- How to stay Vibrant as a teacher
- Analysing Bodies / Preventing Injuries
- Yoga for the stages of the menopause
- Restorative Yoga
- Use of Props
- Jhana Yoga / Bhakti Yoga
- Fire Module
- The Chakras on a deeper level
- Strength & Flexibility
- Fearless in Arm Balances
- Intermediate / Advanced Sequencing Strategies
- Vulnerability & Boundaries in our Teaching
- Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi
- Medicine Woman
- Breathwork
- Somatic Yoga
- Circle Ceremony
- Meditation – journeying
- Working with nature / the medicine wheel / sacred sites / consciousness / spirit
- Working with the four directions and the elements
- Deep rest / yoga nidra
- Cycles, symbols & Self
- Integrating Astrology, lunar phases, numerology
- Learn how to design classes & sequences to draw on these elements
- Planning workshops & retreats around cycles, astrology and lunar phases.
- Meditation practices
- Philosophy
- Lila, Mudra, Doshas
- Space Module
- Clarity & Intuition to awaken our Body, Mind & Soul
- Inversions
- Assists to refine your Alignment
- The ethics of the yoga lifestyle and professional responsibility
- Dharma and the modern yoga professional
- Class Preparation & Teaching Practice
COURSE DATES 2026
Dates
- February 20-22nd
- March 20-22nd
- April 17-19th
- May 15-17th
- June 12-14th
- August 14-16th
- September 11-13th
- October 9-11th
- November 13-15th
- December 11-13th
Days & Times
- Friday
11-7pm - Saturday
11.30-7pm - Sunday
11.30-7pm
COURSE COST
€3,700 Early Bird paid in Full by January 30th
€3,900 payable in Instalments
**Yoga Sanctuary 200hour Graduates avail of 10% Off Fees**
