Yoga is a collection of practices within a practice. Movement, Meditation, Breathwork, Mantra + more are all methods of yoga to walk us toward more ease in our lives. This module is all about the practices and putting them into your body in a way that allows you to teach from your own knowing and personal experience.

How do you create a yoga sequence? How do you stream sequences together to create a yoga class? How might you sequence a bit more creatively? What does it mean to be creative? What is the difference between teaching a 60-minute studio class or a 2-hour workshop?

These questions, amongst many others, are the work of our Methods module. We’ll go into depth about tightening up your cueing, practice teaching and giving/getting feedback, creating sequences, creating classes, holding space, creating the energy of the practice with your voice, your music, and so much more.

I’ll never forget standing in a cadaver lab in a week-long dissection studying the human body, and hearing Gil Hedley say “People want to go to space, but they don’t even know what’s happening under their own skin.”

Your body is how you experience the world. It is how you experience relationship with everything around you. It is how you have the capacity to see the sunrise or hear music or feel someone’s touch. It is an absolute honor to study the human form, and that’s the focus of this module.

We hope you leave our anatomy module with a new-found awe of the human body, and gratitude that you get to live in one. Of course we’ll apply all of this to the yoga practice + how we can move better both on and off the mat.

Svadhyaya is the study of the self + the study of the texts, and that is the work of this module. We’ll take a long, hard look at ourselves. We’ll have long, deep conversations with each other. We’ll read ancient texts as well as modern ones. We’ll self-reflect, a lot. And we’ll have practices that help to guide us toward these places. This module is one of cultivating a deeper conversation with your gut, your inner-wisdom and knowing.

While this module leans heavier into thinking, feeling, talking, reading, writing, and connecting - you can still expect to engage in movement, meditation + breathwork practices meant to guide you toward both introspection + your connection to the whole. This module also includes material from guest teacher Marcy Goldstein who has a PhD in Sanskrit studies + is a wealth of knowledge around the history + philosophy of yoga.

This module is about creating + celebrating opportunities to share the yoga practice with others, and how to become a professional in the yoga space. We blow the lid off of the box around the possible paths you could take in the yoga world. This course includes interview material with studio owners, founders of yoga retreat venues + resorts, teachers, accountants, lawyers, brand strategists + more.

We’ll go over the basics of things like yoga teacher insurance + yoga alliance, you’ll get some tips about how/when/where to create a website, how to show up on social media (if you choose to) and so much more. There will be Q+A opportunities for you to ask for individual input around your teaching path.

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This mentorship-style module can only be completed after finishing all others - unless granted otherwise by TCSY team. This module is about both group learning + individual guidance from Nicole. It is about threading together the tapestry of all you’ve learned up to this point, and getting specific feedback + assignments about where you can grow.

There will be guided yoga practices by Nicole, and you’ll teach to each other, too. We’ll have group discussion, guest teacher appearances, 1:1 meeting times with Nicole + more. It is the cherry on top of a delicious + rich 300-hr. experience.