RAD YOGA LEVEL 1

Foundations of Myofascial Release and Asana

Do your students want to enhance their mobility? Would you like to help them achieve optimal results with their movements, balance, and tension-release efforts? Learn the most current facts about muscle and tissue release tools and techniques and how to incorporate them into your yoga classes, all the while integrating asanas from the art of yoga you love so much.

• Understand current theories and effects of SMR and why it works.
• Scan different regions of the body applying one or more of the three RAD SMR techniques with the appropriate tool.
• Articulate the importance of how much force is required to elicit change and in what direction that force need be applied.
• Practice landmarking and sequencing within asanas.
• Describe the difference between mobility and flexibility.
• Discuss and practice effective student cueing techniques.
• Utilize specific SMY techniques in the warm up and cool down that have a positive effect on the nervous system.

RAD YOGA LEVEL 2

Advanced Techniques in Assessment and Recovery

Build upon the knowledge and skills you learned in RY-1 and bring your yoga practice, asanas, assessments, and tension release expertise to the next level. Learn advanced sequencing techniques, how to examine common postural abnormalities, and interventions to help your clients optimize their poses and wellbeing.

• Demonstrate advanced sequencing for a yoga class that builds toward peak poses.
• Integrate SMR and asanas designed for specific populations and mobility conditions.
• Examine common postural pathologies and create an intervention plan that will elicit postural balance.
• Utilize RAD mobility assessment protocol to determine where true mobility restrictions lie and develop an intervention plan.
• Successfully apply SMR and yoga principles to a variety of case studies.

RAD YOGA MASTER COACH

Unleashing Human Movement

Take a stance at the forefront of the industry by leading our national and international education sessions, accredited courses, and
workshops. Stand out as being an authority and positive driving force all while networking with top professionals. Teach fellow professionals the most up-to-date, cutting edge information and skills surrounding self myofascial release, enhanced mobility and recovery, and injury prevention.

• Discuss, in detail, each section of education content you will be leading in your own course.
• Demonstrate best education practices while leading all portions of the RAD training.
• Articulate the detailed science behind specific myofascial techniques, including the anatomical and physiological mechanisms.
• Describe how different body regions have influence over quality movement patterns across the entire body.
• Create specific questions for course attendees based on course content and questioning style tactics that stimulate critical thinking.
• Differentiate actions from an instructor versus a facilitator and decide which coincide with best practices.
• Create student-focused activities based on at least 3 common learning preferences which are contained in Adult Learning Theory research.