Move Well: Yoga Therapy for the Locomotor System

Move Well

Master Course on Yoga Therapy for Better Movement

This flagship course will guide you in skills, science, and the Svastha yoga therapeutic approach to moving well.

Offered by the Mohans, with impeccable authenticity, exceptional depth and clarity, this course will take you through all the important skills of movement for each region of the body, the major disorders that arise in those regions, and the yoga therapy approach to managing them. Learn how to keep your locomotor system healthy and you move well, lifelong.

This course is a part of the Svastha Yoga Therapy Program. Click here for details of the full program.

Course Description

In summary, in this course, you will:

Learn the locomotor skills needed to move well.
Receive guided exercises, observation and assessment, and teaching practice for those skills.
Understand the necessary functional anatomy of key body regions.
Learn decision pathways to work with imbalances of these body regions.
Appreciate the implication of major locomotor system disorders and diagnoses and learn how to approach them.
Understand safety and contraindications along with each skill and disorder-based management.

Topics Include:

1) Understanding, practicing, and teaching the skills of moving well:

pain-management as needed
awareness & exploration
relaxation, release
mobilization, easing movement
stability, control
strength, endurance
range of movement, stretching
alignment for safe and effective force transmission and loading
balance, gait
agility, speed and responsiveness
coordination, increasing complexity
positive emotion and supportive dialogue toward the body
breathing to support moving well
play, exploration, intrinsic reward

2) Learning and teaching guided exercises for each of these regions to develop important movement skills, with a holistic focus:

low back
mid & upper back
neck
shoulder
elbow, wrist & hand
sacrum
hip
knee
ankle & foot

3) Learning and teaching guided practices combining multiple movement skills for a region and across regions.

4) Appreciating safety and contraindications in teaching and practice.

5) Observing a student, assessing locomotor imbalances, and working with decision pathways or protocols for managing those imbalances.

6) Working with major locomotor disorders such as:

lumbar spine (chronic low back pain, disc herniation, sciatica, facet joint dysfunction, hyperlordosis, spondylolisthesis)
thoracic spine (hyperkyphosis, stiffness, facet joint dysfunction)
cervical spine (head forward alignment, disc herniation, nerve compression)
scoliosis
shoulder (impingement, rotator cuff tears, instability)
elbow, hand (epicondylitis, carpal tunnel syndrome)
sacroiliac pain and dysfunction
hip (fracture, alignment, soft tissue imbalances)
knee (IT band, meniscal tears, ligament strains)
dropped arches, hallux valgus

7) Understanding the tissues of the locomotor system: fascia, cartilage, bones, muscles, ligaments, joints, nerves.

8) Appreciating the global organization of movement: tension, compression, tensegrity and integration; prediction, feedback, neural control; development of movement.

9) Understanding the science of key locomotor skills.

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Course fee US$600

Course Schedule

DATES AND TIMES (INDIAN STANDARD TIME)

While we have provided times in different zones for convenience, please use a converter (such as timeanddate.com) to confirm the class timing in your time zone. The time in India is the base time of the classes.

You can also use the link below to add the course schedule to your calendar: https://calendar.google.com/move-well or download the calendar in iCal format.

Sunday: 12:00 noon-02:00 PM (Dates: 20 October 2024)

Sunday: 07:30 PM-09:30 PM (Dates: 20 October 2024)

Wednesday: 12 noon-02:00 PM (Dates: 23 October 2024)

Wednesday: 07:30 PM-09:30 PM (Dates: 23 October 2024)

Thursday: 12:00 noon-02:00 PM (Dates: 24 October 2024)

Thursday: 7:30 PM-9:30 PM (Dates: 24 October 2024)

Sunday: 12:00 noon-02:00 PM (Dates: 27 October, 17 November, 8 December 2024)

Sunday: 07:30 PM-09:30 PM (Dates: 27 October 2024)

Sunday: 07:30 PM-09:30 PM (Dates: 17 November, 8 December 2024)

Wednesday: 12 noon-02:00 PM (Dates: 20, 27 November, 4, 18 December 2024)

Wednesday: 07:30 PM-09:30 PM (Dates: 20, 27 November, 4, 18 December 2024)

Thursday: 12:00 noon-02:00 PM (Dates: 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 19 December 2024)

Thursday: 7:30 PM-9:30 PM (Dates: 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 19 December 2024)

Course Format

60 hours of live sessions
Sessions across time zones for maximum accessibility
Recordings available for 1 year to revisit and deepen at your own pace

Teachers

Dr. Ganesh Mohan learned yoga from childhood in the tradition of Sri Krishnamacharya through his parents, A. G. Mohan and Indra Mohan. He trained in ancient studies including Sanskrit, Vedic chanting, and Ayurveda and then went on to become a modern medical doctor. He integrates a full spectrum of holistic well-being methods in his work: movement, breathing, meditation and mindfulness, lifestyle, diet, relationships, life guidance and more. He has had extensive experience with thousands of students and patients across the world. He also directs the Svastha Yoga & Ayurveda trainings, including the Svastha Yoga Therapy Program across the globe. He is the co-author of numerous books published internationally, such as Yoga Therapy, Krishnamacharya, Yoga Reminder and Krishnamacharya In His Own Words. With his father, he is the translator of the important Sanskrit yoga texts, Yoga Yajnavalkya and Hatha Yoga Pradipika.

A. G. Mohan is one of the foremost yoga masters in this era. He began his yoga journey in 1971, spending nearly two decades as a personal student of the legendary yogi Sri Krishnamacharya. Then he immersed himself in further wide-ranging studies of ayurveda, samkhya, tantra, ancient India dramatics, jyotisha, and more over decades. He is the author of several books on yoga, including Yoga for Body, Breath, and Mind, Yoga Therapy, Krishnamacharya: His Life and Teachings and Krishnamacharya In His Own Words.

Indra Mohan began her yoga studies along with her husband, A.G. Mohan, in 1971. She is one of few people to receive a post-graduate diploma in yoga from Sri Krishnamacharya. She is appreciated by students not only for her extensive knowledge and clear teachings, but also for her wisdom and calm presence. She has guided many thousands of students over five decades to increase their wellbeing, manage their health problems, and find personal and spiritual transformation.

Nitya Mohan, daughter of A. G. Mohan and Indra Mohan, was trained in yoga from a young age. She also holds a degree in music and is an exponent of Vedic chanting, having conducted numerous seminars and given concerts internationally. A skilled and experienced teacher, she has been running the Svastha training programs in Singapore for two decades.

Certificate

The last lesson of the course includes assessment through a multiple choice quiz. Once you complete the assessment, you will receive your certificate of completion for the course (60 hours of training).

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Join for US$600

Course FAQ's

When can I access the materials in the course?
This is a live course spread over 30 sessions. Please review the dates and times to schedule your attendance. Recordings will be uploaded to the course after the live sessions.
How can I join the live sessions?
Zoom meeting links to each live session will be available inside the course and sent to you by email on the day before each session. Further instructions are detailed in the introductory lesson, and you can email us for help or information.
I missed the live session, what do I do?
The recordings of the live sessions will be uploaded to the course and you can watch the replays at your convenience
How long can I access the course?
You have access to the course for one year from the date of your enrollment.
How physically challenging are the practices in the course?
You can do the practices in this course while seated on a chair. All levels are welcome.
Is the course mainly lecture or practice?
The course contains both. The vision of Svastha and the Mohans is that one should always develop understanding along with practices. That is the way to empower yourself for lifelong wellbeing. That was also the traditional way of teaching and learning.

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Getting insights from long term teachers and practitioners as the Mohan family is invaluable. There is a lot of clarity and simplicity in the explanations of how our mind works and the role of desire. I loved all the practices they taught in this course to move towards inner peace, soooo useful! I really appreciate all the teachings received.

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Beyond Desire

Very fulfilling in content and structure of knowledge provided as well as the deep experiences made accessible in the practice parts. Thank you so much!!!

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Very eye-opening on patterns you thought is clear anyway

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Well presented

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TRUSS K

Perfect pace, perfect presentation

Can not be better. Learned a lot even though I already knew the basics: the Imbalance of one person is his own balance, we should not focused only on production of Agni but balance it! Immediately understood why my practice of Pranayama was not fully effective, and when I added to to it Sitali paranayama, I started to feel better. Now I will look also at the diet.

DILLARO S

A generous and very informative course

Thank you for a very rich course. I want to highlight in particular the precisions and nuances introduced by Dr. Ganesh Mohan, as well as the deep of knowledge shared by AG Mohan. It seems to me much more than a 5.5 hours program... much to reflect on :)

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Move Well

This flagship course will guide you in skills, science, and the Svastha yoga therapeutic approach to moving well.

Course Description

Begin your journey now

Course Schedule

Course Format

60 hours of live sessions

Sessions across time zones for maximum accessibility

Recordings available for 1 year to revisit and deepen at your own pace

Teachers

Certificate

Enrollment open

Course FAQ's

Join our mailing list

What our members are saying

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