We’ve just launched our new Yoga Coaching Course and we can’t wait to share it with you. So, here’s a 4-minute video clip from the 19-minute section about the Science of Stretching from the course! We hope you enjoy it.
About the Yoga Coaching Course
The Yoga Coaching Course, also known as the Yoga for Athletes Course, includes 5 hours of videos and a 60 page handbook – all available through YAX Online.
This course is for you if you are:
- a coach, fitness instructor, or personal trainer who wants to provide recovery techniques to athletes
- a yoga instructor who wants to teach athletes
You’ll learn:
- The Optimal Performance Training Model and the Long Term Athletic Development Model (and how they relate to yoga and training)
- The 7 functional movement protocols for screening and assessing your students
- Flexibility in-depth and the difference between stretching and yoga for stabilization and mobility
- How to practice and administer performance breathwork techniques
No matter what your athletic or yoga experience is, this course will give you a better understanding of the importance of yoga and how to apply it to the athletes you currently work with.
Course Outline
A. Introduction
- Welcome
- Meet the Instructors
- What is Yoga for Athletes?
- Course Objectives
- Quiz
B. Athletes
- Athletes 101
- Benefits of Yoga for Athletes
- Class: Yoga Recovery – Full Body
C. How & When to Incorporate Yoga
- The LTAD model
- The OPT model
- Quiz
D. The Science of Stretching
- Behavioral Properties of Muscles
- Soft Tissue Biomechanics
- The Stretch Reflex
- Integrated Flexibility Continuum
- 4 Types of Stretching
- Quiz
- Class: Yoga Dynamic – Full Body
E. Training and movement patterns
- FMS
- Additional assessments
- Common Injuries
- Quiz
- Class: Yoga Restorative – Rest
F. Meditation & Visualization
- Visualization
- Meditation Practices
G. Breathwork
- Benefits
- Oxygen Efficiency Breathwork Tests
- Different Types of Breathing Exercises
- Box Breathing
- Down Shift
- Next Steps with Breathwork
F. Programming
- Framework
- Periodization Schedule & Types of Yoga
- Class: SMR – Upper Back
- Sport-Specific Postures
- Quiz
I. Closing & Next Steps
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Here's an 8-minute video about athletes from the Yoga Coaching Course!
Here's a 7-minute introduction video for the Yoga Coaching Course.
This course will give you a better understanding of the importance of yoga and how to apply it to the athletes you currently work with.
This course will give you a better understanding of the importance of yoga and how to apply it to the athletes you currently work with.
