Understanding Anatomy Training
World-class Training
We’re soon to announce the return of our popular Understanding Anatomy Teacher Training, now in its 8th intake and always evolving!
This world-class 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.
If you’re interested please let us know and we can be sure you’ll be the first to know once the dates have been confirmed and the bookings open.
A Year of Support
Level up your Anatomy know-how and put yourself ahead of the game…
Do you sometimes feel a little lost teaching a class, out of your depth when confronted by the various functional needs of clients, and lacking invaluable support? Does this result in you feeling that your clients may be at risk of injuring themselves, that you are avoiding areas that need your attention or that you are ill-equipped to best advise your clients?
Our course spans a whole year giving you all the support you require as you begin to understand and digest 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 trust.
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 personal psychological drivers.
This course offers an opportunity to deepen your understanding of human anatomy, psychology and physiology to benefit your movement practice as well as safe and effective teaching of others.
To register your interest and be kept up to date, please sign up below and we will send you updates and reminders so that you can make a decision when you’re ready.
Your Teachers
Ben Parker
Ben has 25 years of clinical experience as a Registered Osteopath and runs 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 exploring 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 process of recovery.
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 1-2-1- classes, including holding workshops and courses and hosting retreats in the UK and abroad. Lucy is the lead teacher on our own Understanding Yoga Teacher Training.
Lucy recently qualified with a Post Graduate Diploma from the University of East London in Integrative Counselling and Coaching. This qualification allows 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 give you all the skills you need to safely support your clients as they move through your classes with whatever limitations or restrictions they may be encountering.
This comprehensive course is divided into 4 Modules, giving you the option to attend the full training over one year or, to complete the course level by level. Our method offers a compromise-free, robust and crucial insight into all things anatomy.
Curriculum
Introduction
Discover if our course is right for you
This workshop is designed to help you decide if this training is for you. We will introduce the biopsychosocial model and help you understand basic movement patterns and anatomical language. We will outline how the course is taught, including reflections on individual learning styles. Time will be reserved for plenty of questions!
Date:
Cost: £50 – Refunded when you sign up for the entire training
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; Relevant embryology.
Dates:
Cost: £200
Module Two
Breaking the Body Down into Parts
To truly understand our functional anatomy, it’s useful to break it down into regions initially. 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:
Cost: £400
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:
Cost: £200
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 therapeutic support clients through injury and surgery rehabilitation; The physicality and psychology of pain management; When to and when not to adjust
Dates:
Cost: £200
Price & Payment Plan
The full price for these 10 training days is £1,000 when purchased individually.
Received a discounted rate of £850, if you sign up for the entire training in advance
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> It is necessary to have completed Module 1 before you can enrol in further modules on this training.
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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You can choose to join the full year or book module by module. Only those who have attended Module 1 can continue to Module 2, 3 or 4.
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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, It is possible to pay in instalments on request. A payment plan can be discussed depending on what module, or modules, of the course you are booking.
Signing up for the entire course commits you to payment for the course in full, whether paying in instalments or not and whether you can attend all sessions.
