Advanced Applied Anatomy Training 2025 - 2026
Advanced Applied Anatomy Training 2025 - 2026
We’re delighted to announce the return of our popular Understanding Anatomy Teacher Training, now in its 8th intake and always evolving!
This extensive, in-depth training is invaluable for Yoga and Pilates teachers, teachers in training, and dedicated movers. It’s also suitable and relevant for Gym Instructors and Personal Trainers.
During this year-long course, you’ll gain the depth of insight to safely and knowledgeably support clients through all aspects of their movement evolution.
We only have space for 12 students, so do book to join us, or email either Ben or Lucy to find out more and arrange a free telephone conversation to discuss any questions you may have.
A Year of Support
Level up your Anatomy know-how and put yourself ahead of the game…
Do you sometimes feel a little lost when teaching a class, out of your depth when confronted by the various functional needs of clients, and lacking in invaluable knowledge, experience, and support? Does this result in you feeling that your clients may be at risk of injuring themselves, that you’re avoiding areas that need your attention or that you’re ill-equipped to best advise your clients in groups or a 1-1 setting?
Our course spans a whole year, providing you with all the support you need as you begin to understand and fully comprehend the complex and magnificent human body. Peer support will give you a boost when you feel lost or unable to help your clients adequately. Additionally, the experience and guidance of your teachers will be there to offer ideas and suggestions as you build your knowledge and confidence.
Whether you teach or train people to stretch or strengthen, you work with their bodies as well as their minds. It’s therefore vitally important that you understand their unique and precious anatomy as well as appreciate their psychological drivers.
This course offers an opportunity to deepen your understanding of human anatomy, psychology, and physiology, benefiting your movement practice as well as the safe and effective teaching of others.
Your Teachers - Husband and Wife Team, Ben & Lucy
Ben Parker
Ben has over 25 years of clinical experience as a Registered Osteopath, having run a busy clinic in Tunbridge Wells and Groombridge since graduating in 1999. He has extensive experience in working with individuals with a wide range of physical complaints and conditions.
He is particularly interested in helping people understand the causes of their ailments from a biopsychosocial perspective and how to make changes to prevent their recurrence. He is also keen to explore how the psyche affects our reaction and response to pain and its management.
As a practising yogi, Ben also understands how yoga and osteopathy can work in synergy to promote overall well-being and the importance of exercise in the recovery process.
Lucy Parker
Lucy has been practising yoga since her university days in the early 1990s. She has taught yoga as a holistic practice since 2010, having studied at The Yoga Campus, London.
As a Senior Yoga teacher, Lucy has taught over 10,000 hours of group and 1-1 classes, including holding workshops, courses and retreats in the UK and abroad. Lucy is the lead teacher on our own Understanding Yoga Teacher Training.
Lucy added a psychotherapy qualification to her rich toolkit in 2023, gaining a Post Graduate Diploma from the University of East London in Integrative Counselling and Coaching. She then went on to specialise in IFS - Internal Family Systems, a dynamic way to understand the human psyche from the perspective of both parts & Self .
These qualifications uniquely enable her to support her clients through a fully rounded approach to health, integrating body, mind, and spirit.
The Bio-Psychosocial Lens
Looking through a bio-psychosocial lens, our unique approach to anatomy training will equip you with all the skills you need to safely support your clients as they progress through your classes, regardless of any limitations or restrictions they may be experiencing.
This comprehensive course is divided into four modules, covering 10 full Sundays, spanning a full year of training. This format provides clarity as you progress through the modules, enhancing and layering your learning and understanding along the way. The breadth of the training allows you to test and experiment with your new insights between training days and bring questions, problems, and concerns to the group at each new session.
Our method offers a compromise-free, robust, and crucial insight into all aspects of anatomy.
Course Curriculum, Dates & Times
November 2025 to
October 2026
Welcome call
Discover if our course is right for you
If you’re seriously considering enrolling onto this course and have questions that need answering, please arrange a free call with either Lucy or Ben. We’re here to help you decide if this is the right course for you, alleviate any concerns you may have, and address any pressing questions.
Date: At your convenience, email to book an appointment.
Module One
Biopsychosocial approach, Models & Modes of Understanding & Embryology
In module one, we lay the foundations of our understanding of human anatomy and function by exploring theories of movement patterns, the pentadactyl limb, tensegrity and the biopsychosocial model; Understanding components of connective tissues; and relevant embryology.
Dates: Sunday 2 November & 7 December 2025
Times: 10 am - 5 pm
Module Two
Breaking the Body Down into Parts
To truly understand our functional anatomy, it’s initially useful to break it down into regions. Each of these four days will focus on one of those regions: The lower limbs, Lower back, pelvis, and core, Neck, thorax and breathing, The upper limbs.
Dates: Sunday 11 January, 22 February, 22 March & 19 April 2026
Times: 10 am - 5 pm
Module Three
Building the Body Back with Integration & Understanding
Following on from the previous two modules, here we will put the building blocks of the body back together, creating coherence and deepening our understanding; Myofascia and its unique role in movement; Understanding pain and the nervous system; Creative applications for common conditions; Scenario-based integration into teaching.
Dates: 17 May & 14 June 2026
Times: 10 am - 5 pm
Module Four
Teaching 1:1 Clients, Anatomically Informed, Safe Adjustments
Now we have grounded ourselves in understanding human anatomy, we can apply this know-how to our clients to maximise therapeutic benefit. In this module, we will consider: How to provide therapeutic support to clients through injury and surgery rehabilitation; The physicality and psychology of pain management; How & when to adjust, and when not to.
Dates: 6 September & 4 October 2026
Times: 10 am - 5 pm
Price & Payment Plan
The fully inclusive price for these 10 training days is £1,200, a total of £120 per day.
This can be paid in 4 instalments, starting with a £300 deposit to secure your place.
EARLY BIRD PRICE
We are offering a 10 % EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT for all enrolments completed before 31st July.
Training Handbook
A bound course handbook will be sent to you following registration, containing over 100 full-colour pages of anatomical references, conditions and relevant information and guidance.
NB> Only once the first two instalments have been paid will the handbook be sent to attendees.
DATES AT A GLANCE
MODULE 1 - 2025
Sunday 2 November
Sunday 7 December
MODULE 2 - 2026
Sunday 11 January
Sunday 22 February
Sunday 22 March
Sunday 19th April
MODULE 3 - 2026
Sunday 17 May
Sunday 14 June
MODULE 4 - 2026
Sunday 6 September
Sunday 4 October
THIS IN-PERSON COURSE WILL …
SUPER CHARGE YOUR ANATOMY KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING
PUT YOU AHEAD OF THE GAME
INTRODUCE YOU TO THE BIO PSYCHO SOCIAL MODEL OF INTEGRATION
OFFER SAFE, INSIGHTFUL VARIATIONS & ALTERNATIVES FOR ALL CLIENTS NEEDS
OFFER CONSENTUAL & INFORMED HANDS-ON ADJUSTMENTS
EXPLAIN MOST CONDITIONS & LIMITATIONS
EQUIPT YOU TO SUPPORT CLIENT NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION
PROVIDE A 100 PAGE COLOUR HAND BOOK
AWARD YOU WITH 90 CPD HOURS OF TRAINING
ILLUMINATE THE IMPORTANCE OF EMBRYOLOGY ON ANATOMICAL UNDERSTANDING
CREATE A FUN & SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT WITHIN A SMALL GROUP OF PEERS
KEEP YOU INSPIRED WITH SCENARIOS & CREATIVE MODELS OF UNDERSTANDING
GUARANTEE A YEAR OF SUPPORT FROM YOUR TUTORS
BOOST YOUR CONFIDENCE IN TEACHING BOTH IN A 1-1 & GROUP ENVIRONMENT
HELP YOU MAKE FRIENDS FOR LIFE!
FAQs
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The course is held in the stunning Flow Tunbridge Wells, a beautiful yoga studio in the heart of Kent. Flow is a fully equipped yoga studio and treatment room providing all your needs for comfort and ease.
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Yes, to fully benefit from the experience of confidently acquiring knowledge, understanding, and know how, we require attendees to attend the entire 10-day training.
This also allows the group to bond as a whole and offer peer support and community.
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Our intake is strictly limited to 12 in-person students to maximise learning outcomes.
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The course provides an opportunity for teachers, trainers and therapists to bond as a group and to create an ongoing support network.
A Community Forum will be established via WhatsApp group to create and an open forum for discussion.
Lucy and Ben will also be available as mentors and with student support between sessions.
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There is ample on-street parking outside the studio and easy access from mainline London Stations to High Brooms or Tunbridge Wells with a journey time of 55 mins from Charring Cross.
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The full course runs over 10 Sundays from 10 am – 5 pm. Each day will include an hour lunch break and plenty of tea in between.
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This course is a total of 90 hours, made up of 70 contact hours and 20 non-contact hours (2 hours of self-learning per session).
A certificate for CPD or other purposes is granted after completion of the course, either module by module or in full depending on requirements.
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Yes, the full fee can be paid in up to four instalments. This includes the first deposit and three additional payments.
Signing up for the course commits you to pay in full, regardless of whether you choose to pay in instalments or not, and whether you can attend all sessions or not.
