Module 5
Module 5: Professional Yoga Teaching
Key Focus
Teaching the 8 Limbs of Yoga
Adjustments
Student Teaching Sessions
Adaptations for Students with Disabilities
Ethics & Social Justice
Social Justice and Yoga
Business
Marketing
Accounting & Finance
Local School Sustainability
Sections
5.1 | Social Justice
5.2 | Sustainable Asana
5.3 | Vinyasa Krama
5.4 | Asana Adjustments
5.5 | Student Teaching
5.6 | Asana Adaptations
5.7 | Ethical Standards
5.8 | Sexual Assault Awareness
Module 5 Overview
Required Materials
Yoga Alliance Code of Ethics (click here to download)
Yoga Alliance Sexual Assault Resources (click here)
Suggested Materials
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa
A Blue Fire by James Hillman
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Essential Rumi by Jalal Al-Adin Rumi and Coleman Barks
Brand You by John Purkiss and David Royston-Lee
Blue Ocean Strategy
Mohandas Ghandi autobiography “The Story of My Experiments with Truth”
Independent Study Opportunities (w/ instructor permission)
Module 5.1 | Social Justice
Points of Focus
Karma Yoga
Bhakti Yoga
Promoting Equality
Local Business Philanthropy
LGBTQ+
Racism Awareness
Module 5.2 | Sustainability
Points of Focus
Teacher-Student Relationship
Marketing Yourself
Public Reputation w/ Social Media
Avoiding Conflict
Maintaining Integrity
Module 5.3 | Vinyasa Krama
Points of Focus
The Vinyasa Krama of T. Krishnamacharya
Viniyoga
Sequence Based Group Fitness Public Teaching
Private Instruction
Module 5.4 | Adjustments
Points of Focus
Physical Adjustments
Advanced Adjustments
Mysore Class Adjustments
Verbal Adjustments
Body Language and Non-Verbal Communication
Module 5.5 | Student Teaching
Points of Focus
Short, Intermediate, and Long Form Student Teaching Sequences
Constructive Feedback Sessions
Demographics, Archetypes, and Customer Segment Designs
Social Anxiety
Module 5.6 | Adaptations
Points of Focus
Adapting Asanas using Props
Adapting Sequences
Group Class Etiquette for Less Fit Students
Covid-19 Protocol
Online Teaching
Module 5.7 | Ethical Standards
Points of Focus
Professional Ethics for Yoga Teachers
Yoga Alliance Standards
Avoiding Bias
Racism and Bigotry
Social Stratification and Equality
Module 5.8 | Sexual Assault
Points of Focus
Yoga Teachers that have Committed Sexual Assault
Inquiries into the Cause of Power Abuse
Leadership
Trauma Awareness
Awareness and Methods for Victims
Local and National Sexual Assault Resources
Module 5.10 | Mohandas Gandhi
Points of Focus
Civil Disobedience
Lifestyle & Personal Ethics
Satyagraha
Brahmacharya
Module 5.11 | Exam #5
Exam Topics
Business
Ethics
Social Justice