Builds skills needed for safe yoga practice.
Offers a thorough understanding of the body’s muscles, bones, and joints.
As a best-selling anatomy textbook, Trail Guide to the Body has proven to help future yoga teachers develop an understanding of what muscles, bones, and joints are in action during yoga poses. It is only with this foundational anatomy that a yoga teacher can recognize a student’s capacities and limitations, especially when holding poses for longer periods of time.
Makes anatomy approachable and easy to understand.
Some yoga teachers in training might find musculoskeletal anatomy overwhelming, but Trail Guide to the Body puts beautifully illustrated, easy-to-grasp content at their fingertips. It takes them on a hands-on journey through the body’s muscles, bones, and joints, so they can understand later how to cue their students in a way that supports body stability.
Gives future yoga teachers confidence to guide their students.
Trail Guide to the Body focuses on the body’s structure so that yoga teachers can go on to better understand the body’s limitations, giving them the confidence to guide others safely and effectively when getting in and out of poses.
Comes with educator resources for quickly creating dynamic lessons.
As a Trail Guide to the Body yoga educator, you’ll gain easy access to a full suite of resources that help you create dynamic, multi-faceted lessons with ease. From multiple PowerPoint presentations and a vast image library to unique classroom activities, these resources save you time and capture your yoga trainees’ attention.
Expands learning beyond the classroom with study tools that can go anywhere.
By owning Trail Guide to the Body, future yoga teachers gain exclusive access to an empowering repository of study tools, most included for free. Convenient, easy-to-access palpation videos, overlay images, interactive mobile apps, and more are available online for students, wherever and whenever they need them.
Prepares yoga teachers in training for Yoga Alliance credentials.
Requiring Trail Guide the Body for a yoga training program satisfies the anatomy course prerequisite for becoming a credentialed yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance.
