50-Hour Advanced Anatomy Training

A six-day intensive to refresh and reinvigorate your anatomical offerings.

Programme Overview

Upgrade Your Anatomy Knowledge

At the 200-hour level, the anatomy curriculum is designed as an introduction to the language and basic processes of the body related to yoga. This detailed level of knowledge is crucial, but doesn’t always allow time to consider the cutting edge of movement science and more holistic ways of offering body knowledge to our students. This course is designed to help you remember and build upon your initial training, and apply these skills in fresh new ways.

Personal Training Skills for Yoga Teachers

From an anatomical perspective, yoga definitely has the potential to offer increased strength, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness, but for each of these outcomes classes need to be sequenced in specific ways. This programme pulls knowledge from personal training, movement and performance science and sports massage to offer evidence-backed ways to create sequences that enable progress and results for your students.

Sequencing with Anatomy Trains

By examining Tom Myers’ anatomy trains system in detail, this course develops a birds eye view of the musculoskeletal system that can be directly applied to sequencing. This novel method of engaging muscular activation before moving through sequences can be applied to your existing teaching, or built into a new teaching offering (dare we say, style?) in its own right.

Increase Your Confidence

With so many anatomical sources and authorities out there, it can be difficult to parse the knowledge from the noise. Teaching methods used on this course are designed to engage students in dialogical learning processes, enhance critical thinking skills and engage directly with cutting edge sources of anatomical knowledge with confidence and authority.

Qualification: 50-Hour Advanced Anatomy CPD with YogaAlliance US

Course Leader: Joshua LeClair

Next Course Dates:
Weekend 1: 24 / 25 January 2026
Weekend 2: 7 / 8 February 2026
Weekend 3: 21 / 22 February 2026

Venue: Kagyu Samye Dzong, Bermondsey

Investment:
Early Bird: £600 (until 1 October 2025); Full Price: £675

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Course Leader

Joshua LeClair

Joshua discovered yoga through his theatre training and in 2013 he moved to the United Kingdom to complete his MA studying how yoga can supplement the three disciplines of musical theatre and artists’ mental health. Since then, Joshua has developed as a yoga teacher with the teachings of Leon London, Dulce Aguilar, Bernie Clark and Holly Warren, and has discovered a particular joy in anatomy and understanding what makes the body tick. Weaving together styles of Vinyasa, Yin, Rocket and Mandala with theories of physiology, chakras and somatics, Joshua is happiest when learning something new and implementing it into his teaching in both studio classes and in his role as a lecturer on 200hr and 500hr teacher trainings. Alongside yoga, Joshua is still actively engaged in performance and is studying towards his PhD at Goldsmiths studying inclusive and interdisciplinary education.

Upcoming Course Dates

The 2026 Advanced Anatomy Training runs for three weekends onJanuary 24th and 25th, February 7th and 8th, and February 21st and 22nd at Kagyu Samye Dzong in Bermondsey.

Days will run from 9:15am-4:45pm with regular breaks and an hour for lunch.

Course Curriculum

On the advanced anatomy training you’ll learn content across the following categories:

200-Hour Plus

Build From What You Know
Starting from reminding ourselves of content from the 200-hour curriculum, we can build further and add more detailed, nuanced, and niche understandings from cutting-edge studies to ensure our knowledge is up-to-date and accurate.

Finer Physiology
Have a closer look at points of interest in anatomy, including the roles of fascia across different yoga styles, productive ways to dialogue around pain, working with hypermobility, and the ways the brain learns movement.

PT Skills for Yoga Teachers
How do personal trainers understand the way we build flexibility or strength? How do we programme classes in a way that ensures we're building the skills we say it does? We will introduce and integrate common skills that other bodyworkers employ to bolster the impact of our own offerings.

Myofascial Meridians

Anatomy Trains
Encounter six lines of Tom Myers' anatomy trains system as a way of developing a bird's eye view of the body, and understanding movement through continuities of tissue rather than isolated muscles.

Put It Into Practice
Develop innovative teaching cues and methods to ensure muscular activation before moving into and between postures. This will ultimately ensure safe, productive and progressive practice for students with varying ages, goals and levels of experience.

A New Form of Sequencing
Begin to adapt new sequences and alter existing ones, informed by the anatomy trains. This offers a useful and consistent curriculum for your students, and provides a valuable framework for you to build curriculum around.

Who's Who of Anatomy

The Development of Modern Postural Yoga
Identify the influences and practices and individuals that have influenced the development of what Mark Singleton calls Modern Postural Yoga, including German body building, Swedish gymnastics and United States somatics.

Where Yoga Meets Anatomy
Encounter the seminal applications of Western anatomy to yoga by milestone practitioners like Stu McGill, Bernie Clark, Leslie Kaminoff and H. David Coulter.

Decolonising Movement Practice
Delve into the history of movement practice and the ways that different bodies have been prioritised and marginalised through its development in the UK. Identify and present a hidden figure from your own lineage who has consciously broken the mold of the 'typical' teacher or practitioner.

Emancipatory Learning

Pedagogical Intent
Sessions are designed with a consideration of not just what is being taught, but also how it is taught, opening dialogue around inclusive forms of teaching and learning applicable to any kind of content.

Develop Critical Thinking
Engage with various sources of anatomical knowledge in order to identify reliable sources and practitioners for new knowledge, mitigate bias within teachings and develop ways of being accountable for what we share in class.

Awareness and Inclusion in Asana
Embody and discuss universal design factors to accommodate a greater number of people into a public asana class. Consider reasonable adjustments and access needs facing students of various abilities, shapes, sizes and identities.

Tuition & Policies

Tuition

Investment / fees are £600. Upon acceptance you can secure your spot with a £150 non-refundable deposit. Payment plans available upon request. To discuss please reach out to ukyogacollective@gmail.com.

Cancellation and Withdrawals

Cancellations and withdrawals are considered relative to the student’s progression through the course. You can find full details in our refund policy.

Graduation

Students must complete 100% of their course and have paid in full in order to receive their certificate. Students have to pass all assessments to the satisfaction of the course leaders. Payment and attendance does not guarantee graduation. For more details you can peruse our attendance and coursework policy.

Code of Conduct, Harassment & Grievances

UKYC is committed to providing safe spaces for all students over the entirety of their training. There is zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind. We uphold this through our code of conduct, anti-harassment policy and grievance policy.

Eligibility & Application

Eligibility Requirements

This course is designed specifically for yoga teachers, but teachers of other movement disciplines or knowledgeable yoga practitioners are also welcome to attend.

Qualification

On successful completion of the 50-hour Advanced Anatomy Course, students will receive a CPD Certificate recognised by YogaAlliance US.