Yogalates Teacher Training blending yoga and Pilates

Interactive practices, Theory & peer connections

You’ll have the space to ask questions, make connections, and potentially lifelong friendships with your peers, sharing knowledge and experience as a collective over three months.

Module 1 – Core stability

• Debunk common myths about abdominal & pelvic floor engagement

• Effectively teach core strengthening exercises to your students

• Understand the anatomy of core stability

• Discover how ‘IAP’ (intra-abdominal pressure) can transform your thinking around core stability and its relationship to the breath

Module 2 – Shoulder girdle

• Revise the anatomy and structure of the shoulder girdle and its key movements

• Learn to spot common structural misalignments of the shoulder complex that leave yoga students vulnerable to injury

• Use myofascial balls for hands-on learning and kinaesthetic feedback

• Teach exercises for shoulder girdle stability, helping counteract ‘winging’ shoulder blades and the all too common ‘slouch’ posture!

Module 3 – Hips & glutes

• Dive into the anatomy of the pelvis and address common muscular imbalances through Pilates & resistance training

• Locate and experience muscles first-hand using myofascial balls

• Strengthen hips & glutes to support back and pelvic health and stability, reducing the risk of injury and pain

• Improve your understanding of sacroiliac dysfunction and how to manage it

Module 4 – Posture

• Learn why ‘neutral spine’ alignment supports healthy breathing, core stability, and nervous system functionality

• Practice and learn to teach the four ‘Fundamental Pelvic Patterns’ to enhance healthy mobility and functional movement

• Learn to spot common postural misalignments in your students

• Tailor Yogalates practices specifically for 1:1 clients that address particular pain points and/or postural misalignments

Module 5 – Resistance training

• Incorporate dynamic weights and band exercises into your yoga sequencing to improve musculoskeletal strength and support injury prevention

• Learn safe practice for teaching with weights and bands, and how to modify an exercise to suit different levels of ability

• Understand the ‘why’ of resistance training in supporting healthy aging

• Use props to target the core in different and challenging ways

Module 6 – Sequencing

• Create varied and exciting Yogalates class plans that combine a balance of strength, endurance, and mobility work to keep classes interesting

• Receive my top sequencing guidelines for planning any Yogalate class

• Learn the six phases of any Yogalates class and how to seamlessly and successfully blend Hatha and vinyasa Yoga and mat-work Pilates

• Teach balanced classes that will have your students leaving walking taller, feeling more toned, energised, relaxed, and confident, no matter what their age

Why Yoga teachers need Yogalates

Over the years, I’ve noticed a lack of strength and stability work in many yoga classes.

The truth is, that the physical postures of yoga (asana) were originally designed by men, for Eastern male bodies.

BKS Iyengar had a very different physicality to the modern-day Western yogini, not simply because of gender, but as a result of the culture in which he was raised.

Therefore, it’s perhaps understandable that injuries in the yoga world are common, often among hyper-mobile women. Also, as Western practitioners, our posture and physicality are heavily influenced by our culture of sitting in chairs and spending a lot of time in cars or at a desk.

Training as a Yogalates teacher is about incorporating the best of East and West into one comprehensive practice that works in harmony with our 21st-century bodies.

Yoga asana often prioritises flexibility and openness, so it’s vital for the safety and longevity of practice that we also begin to share with our student’s techniques and exercises that prioritise strength and engagement. Pilates techniques and resistance training can provide a wonderful complement to vinyasa and other expressions of yoga asana that, in many cases, lack engaged core and stability work.

Life is about balance after all!