How to communicate your exact

role as a yoga teacher when

students ask about their injuries

The most up-to-date practices

for preventing and managing common yoga injuries 

How to give verbal cues,

manual adjustments, & sequences

that do not worsen your students’

injuries – or create them.

1. Keep Your Knees Safe in Yoga

Understanding and managing knee challenges is a fundamental requirement for teaching yoga in modern times.

Highlights from Day 1 include:

• Techniques and anatomical foundation to minimize knee injuries in class— and skillfully respond to students who have these challenges
• How to maximize safety in all six “families of postures” that affect the knees, including the Pigeon and Bow Pose family
• How to modify common postures like  Lotus that students often struggle with

2. Keep Your Sacroiliac and Hips Safe in Yoga

Sacroilliac pain, hip conditions, and hamstring attachment injuries are far too common in modern yoga. The focus of Day 2 will help you minimize these challenges in your classes and understand how to respond to them when they arise.

Highlights from Day 2 include: 

• The anatomy of the sacroiliac joint and a 5-step process for minimizing injuries in this region
• The anatomy of the labrum and hip socket—and how to minimize the potential for labrum injuries
• How to respond to hamstring attachment injuries in a safe, responsible way

3. Keep Your Lower Back Safe in Yoga

According to the American Chiropractic Association, experts estimate that up to 80% of the population will experience back pain at some time in their lives -- which means that many, many students will come to you asking about back pain.

Highlights from Day 3 include:

• Learning to provide general yoga advice to someone that has lumbar disk challenges and wants to practice safely
• How maximize safety in sustainability in forward bends, twists, backbends, and side-bends for students of all levels
• A demystified, accessible overview of lower-back anatomy

4. Keep Your Shoulders Safe in Yoga

The highly mobile and beautifully intricate nature of the shoulder girdle makes it one of the most vulnerable parts of your body—especially for flow or vinyasa yogis. The nuances of the shoulder girdle also make giving accurate, scientific cues very challenging. This combination of challenges leads to an excessive number of injuries and long-term wear and tear. Until now.

Highlights from Day 4 include:

• Finally, coming to a simple, reasonable conclusion for how to do Chaturanga in the most safe and sustainable way—and what to do when this posture still doesn’t work for everyone
• Learning what Dr. Paul Roache, Orthopedic Surgeon and shoulder specialist, calls the “Shoulder Safe” Positions and how to use this information to create shoulder stability
• How to minimize—and manage—the most common shoulder challenges that students experience 

5. Live calls with Jason

On each live call, you will have one hour to ask Jason questions and an hour of active asana practice. These calls are a great opportunity to process and discuss the information you've watched on the videos and to put it into practice.

I’ve been teaching yoga for more than 20 years teaching yoga and training yoga teachers. 

For the past 10 years, I’ve honed my approach to yoga anatomy by looking to peers outside of the yoga community, in the fields of physical therapy, orthopedics, traumatology, and sports medicine.

In this training, I shed light on the fine line you need to walk as a yoga teacher to offer your students the help that they need without diagnosing.

To do this, you need to be intimately familiar with common yoga injuries, why they happen, and how you can offer sequences and modifications that will lessen the probability of creating or worsening injuries.

This work is ongoing for all of us because no two bodies are the same. But that’s also what makes it so interesting and fun to share!