Functional Yoga for Athletics Teaching Style
"Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath;
that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice
and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As
preventative medicine, it's unequaled."
~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Functional Yoga for Athletics is designed to give you a working knowledge of teaching yoga to those involved in athletic endeavors. Athletes commonly experience increases in muscle stiffness and tightness from rigorous training and repetitive movements, leaving them vulnerable to injuries in muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints. Some of the most common imbalances occur in their hips, shoulders and lower backs and this situation can potentially shorten their careers.
Athletes also deal with the issues of fatigue and overtraining. This course will help you address these problems with the skills and techniques necessary to prevent injury, increase endurance and enhance performance for the professional and amateur athlete in a variety of team or individual sports.
The course focuses on understanding anatomy as it relates to athletic performance, the role of yoga in improving an athletes performance and athletic longevity and how to teach to the beginning to more advanced student, as well as a complete training in instructing functional yoga. If you are an athlete, or your desire is to work with those in the higher end of body performance then this teaching style will help you with your training goals.
Functional Yoga for Athletics 200 hour Certification
The following courses are included in the Functional Yoga for Athletics 200 hour certification focus.
- Yoga Origins and History(FY101 or FY102)
- Modern Yoga History and Philosophies (FY103 or FY104)
- Breathing Techniques in Yoga (FY105 or FY106)
- Relaxation Techniques in Yoga (FY107 or FY108)
- Yoga Energetics (FY109 or FY110)
- Yoga and the Brain (FY111 or FY112)
- The Ethics of Yoga (YB201 or YB202)
- Yoga as a Business (YB203 or YB204)
- Foundations of Good Nutrition (YNUT301)
- Nutritional Supplements (YNUT303)
- General Anatomy (YANA401)
- BYB Yoga Training Techniques (8 classes required) (YTP1101)
- Teaching Functional Yoga for Athletics (2 modules) (YTS901)
- Teaching Foundation Yoga (YTS601)
- Teaching Recuperative Yoga (YTS701)
- Boustany Hatha Asanas and Lectures (2 modules) (YTS801)
- Yoga Asana Techniques (4 classes equals one module) (Choose from YAT1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005 or 1006)
- Functional Anatomy (YANA402)
- Core Conditioning and Strength Training (2 modules) (YTS1001)
- Teacher Training Group Yoga group classes
(50 hours required) (GY1202)
