8-Hour Yoga Alignment Course with Lesley Fightmaster
What you'll learn
- Deepen your practice
- Align yourself in frequently practiced yoga postures.
- Avoid injuries in your practice.
- Improve your overall posture.
- Be inspired.
Requirements
- A yoga mat, 2 yoga blocks, and a yoga strap.
- Yoga blankets or use your own blankets or towels.
Description
This yoga course is focused on proper alignment and meant for students of all levels, from those who have a little yoga experience to those who are teachers. We will cover proper alignment techniques for popular yoga poses and strategies for avoiding injuries in your practice. This course comes with 11 full length sessions with me so you can put to practice immediately what you've learned.
We will break down and practice poses that you'll most often see in my classes and most Hatha yoga teachers' classes. We'll look at poses where the front leg is neutrally rotated in the pelvis and poses where the front leg is in external rotation. We'll also break down sun salutations (Surya Namaskar A and B) and variations. We also practice proper alignment in chatturanga, upward dog and downward dog. Inversions are discussed and practiced as well.
Our course is structured so that you'll watch the interactive lectures first and then practice the 30-minute vinyasa flow classes. The course will take you about 8 hours to complete. I would recommend practicing one section at a time and then the practice. Each section will take 45 minutes to an hour to complete (including the practice) and I've included quiz's after each lecture to be sure the information stays with you.
Take this course if you love yoga! I want us all to practice until we're well into our 90's, so let's make our alignment as good as it can be. This course is based on my 10 years of teaching as well as my experience as a teacher trainer. I've taught over ten 200-hour teacher training courses through YogaWorks and I'm also a teacher on the faculty of the 300-hour professional program. The YogaWorks method is the "Gold Standard" of teacher training, so the information you'll receive here is awesome!
Who this course is for:
- This yoga course is meant for students who have a little yoga experience to those who are teachers.
- New students will benefit from the specific alignment instructions.
- Intermediate and advanced practitioners will enjoy the subtle actions in the body on a deeper level.
- Yoga teachers will gain new ways of teaching postures.
Course content
- Preview08:42
- 2 questionsUjjayi breath
- 02:45Foundations, Grounding/Lifting, and Compensating for Tight Areas
- 3 questionsFoundations, Grounding/Lifting
- 02:30Trunk Stabilization Exercise
- 2 questionsTrunk Stability
- Preview27:53
Instructor
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- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 252 Reviews
- 1,703 Students
- 1 Course
Lesley Fightmaster, E-RYT 500, leads a breath-focused, alignment based class that combines her deep love of movement with the practice of yoga. Lesley believes that the transformational gift of yoga should be available to as many people at possible and offers yoga classes on multiple online platforms.
Lesley is a certified instructor and is registered with Yoga Alliance. She earned her 200-hour certificate trough YogaWorks in 2006 and went on to complete her 300-hour training to become E-RYT 500 certified. Lesley is now on the faculty of the YogaWorks teacher training department. She leads 200-hour certification programs and teaches in the 300 hour program. Students appreciate Lesley's ability to infuse her meditative and flowing Vinyasa classes with yoga philosophy, concise technical alignment, and some heart-felt humor.