10 Day 50-Hour Yoga for Athletes Intensive Teacher Training in Phuket

The InDepth Yoga specialized Yoga for Athletes training is a program that was specifically designed over the course of many years by the founder, Nathalie Emelianova, who retired as a Muay Thai fighter to become a yoga teacher when she saw the incredible effects it can have. The course is crafted perfectly for any of the following professionals: coaches, professional athletes, yoga instructors, other sports professionals, medical personnel, sports psychologists, sports enthusiasts, and anyone who desires to learn more about the topic.

Highlights

• Daily yoga practice
• Meditation training: learning to control the mind
• Mindfulness and concentration practices and techniques
• 200+ page training manual and an InDepth Yoga certificate
• Working with injuries, how to prevent them and what can we do to help
• Sport-specific examples using sports like basketball, boxing, football, and running, plus sports psychology
• Discussion about fascia and myofascial release practices and techniques
• 10 nights accommodation

The InDepth Yoga specialized Yoga for Athletes training is a program that was specifically designed over the course of many years by its founder, Nathalie Emelianova, who retired as a Muay Thai fighter to become a yoga teacher when she saw the incredible effects it can have. Using her personal experience and numerous connections in the sports sphere she combined everything into a 50-hour intensive mentorship-focused course that will teach you everything you need to know about working with athletes. You will look in-depth into the various anatomical and psychological variants for working with athletes of many different sports followed by real-life application, teaching methodology, and sequencing for specific sports.

Who is this training for

The course is crafted perfectly for any of the following professionals: coaches, professional athletes, yoga instructors, other sports professionals, medical personnel, sports psychologists, sports enthusiasts, and anyone who desires to learn more about the topic. The groups are kept to a maximum of five people in order to personalize the training to the specific needs of the students and increase their personal and professional development, this also allows InDepth Yoga Academy to have an adaptive schedule that works around the intense training regimes of professional athletes and work schedules of coaches, trainers, and so on.

What you will gain from the course:

• An InDepth Yoga certificate
• 200+ page training manual that contains essential information, poses, techniques, advice and so much more
• Daily yoga practice
• Sport-specific examples using sports like basketball, boxing, football, and running
• Real athlete cases are discussed case by case with approaches, techniques, and exercises
• Working with injuries, how to prevent them and what can we do to help
• Discussion about fascia and myofascial release practices and techniques
• Mindfulness and Concentration practices and techniques to implement in your practice and classes
• Sports Psychology, using pranayama, meditation, and mindfulness techniques to improve focus and concentration, reduce stress, and enhance mental stability
• Easy and effective modifications of positions, using props
• Sequencing for specific sports and injuries

Program information

The Yoga for Athletes course is a unique, specialized and expertly taught training that focuses on the common problems athletes face, common injuries, and the process of both reducing their impact and attempting to prevent them altogether, the specific problem areas of athletes depending on sport and level of training and how the practice of yoga can improve their performance, overall wellbeing, calm the mind and begin internal growth. It combines the study of sports psychology with holistic methods of mindfulness and meditation to create effective ways of dealing with anxiety, stress, and self-doubt to create a better, stronger, more confident athlete.

You will be looking at the most common athletic injuries and ways to approach them in your yoga classes. You will decide how to apply yoga for different phases of athletic training, and different sports, and how to adapt to that training during the off-season. You will also go over different sports like football and running, boxing and jiu-jitsu and learn the connection between them and the positions which would generate the best effect, for dealing with injuries, injury prevention, performance enhancement, and the overall improvement of mental health.

At the end of the course, the students teach a class based on a given case and complete a theoretical exam which will grant them a certificate granting them the ability to teach Yoga for Athletes anywhere in the world.

In accordance with Yoga Alliance, the course consists of a combination of contact hours with the instructors and non-contact hours of self-practice and study.