Part 1: The Art of Flex-Ability ™️ [25h]

Architecture

Build a strong foundation for flexibility and movement from a smart, balanced, and body-specific approach. Whether you're working with students or deepening your practice, Part 1 will help you understand what flexibility training really requires—beyond just stretching.

Main content

• How to Warm Up Properly for Flexibility Training
• Types of flexibility: active, passive, dynamic, static
• How to assess your individual structure and needs
• Upper and Lower Body Flexibility Approaches
• Mechanics of Common Flexibility Poses
• Core Strength Exercises to Support Flexibility
• Use of accessories to support, challenge or deepen the work
• Introduction to practical work including: Assisting vs. adjusting Self-adjustments and spatial awareness Approaching touch in group/private lessons
• Inclusive and adaptable teaching strategies

Optional content (depending on time and group needs)

• Advanced adjustments and working in pairs
• Creative applications of accessories for advanced variations
• In-depth analyses of certain postures or transitions according to interest
• Additional group work or coaching in practical techniques
• Exploring play and improvisation in movement labs

Throughout Part 1, we'll emphasize that flexibility training should be tailored to each individual. You'll learn how to work with different levels and body types and avoid a one-size-fits-all approach—whether you're teaching or practicing for yourself.

Daily Schedule Example ⎻ Architecture Part

• 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Group Vinyasa practice
• 10:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Exercises & Techniques (including adaptations and progressions)
• 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Anatomy
• 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.: Adjustments
• 5:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.: Cool Down
• 5:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.: Questions

Expansion

In this part, we delve deeper into personalized coaching, assessment, and advanced application. Building on the solid foundation of Part 1, you'll develop the skills to effectively guide your clients, track their progress, and confidently grow your teaching practice.

Main content

• Advanced body assessment tools (identify patterns, imbalances, limitations)
• Design of personalized programs according to individual objectives
• How to offer effective exercises and “homework” to support progress
• Creative and intelligent sequencing (group + private formats)
• Integrating flexibility into different movement disciplines
• Teaching labs: guide, adapt and respond in real time
• Continuous development of safe and effective practical techniques
• Using props to deepen exploration and support advanced forms

Optional content (depending on time and group needs)

• Exploration of advanced postures and inversions
• Thai massage techniques applied to mobility work
• Refinement of transitions and choreographed movement
• In-depth teaching feedback and peer coaching
• Professional development: positioning yourself as a flexibility coach
• Monitoring client progress and designing long-term programs

In Part 2, we'll delve deeper into the idea that flexibility coaching must be responsive. You'll hone your ability to teach in a way that respects each student's unique structure, history, and goals—going beyond standard models for an individualized and informed approach.

Daily Schedule Example ⎻ Expansion Part

• 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.: Group vinyasa practice
• 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Assistance & Adjustments
• 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Body assessment tools & techniques
• 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Sequencing & Transitions
• 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.: Teaching practice / Group work / Feedback
• 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.: Cool Down

The Art of Sequencing [25h] will include:

Building on the foundations of Part 1 (The Art of Flex-Ability™), we'll explore different stylistic forms: patterns, techniques, and transitions inspired by yoga, contortion, and contemporary floorwork. Using these tools, we'll see how yoga postures can be approached in multiple ways, creating graceful, artistic, meaningful, and intelligent sequences.

• Day 1 – Spine Undulations : Exploring cobra, camel, and wheel poses, as well as transitions between these poses (e.g., cobra to wheel, camel to wheel, back drops, and wheel circles).
• Day 2 – Slides and Circles : Work on the front split, the side split, the compass pose and variations of the bird of paradise.
• Day 3 – Arm twists and balances : crow, flying splits, dragonfly variations. Also explores shoulder raises and rolls from the candle and back chakrasana, and their adaptations to poses such as downward dog, cobra, pigeon, fallen angel, and chest stand.

The afternoon sessions will aim to deconstruct the morning flow and offer tools and techniques to enrich your creativity in yoga practice, including:

• Games, improvisation and storytelling based on stimuli such as poems, song lyrics, fictional stories/characters or real experiences.
• How to choreograph movement to music: learning to read and interpret the story of a piece of music and how to associate it with movement.
• How to adapt a flow (“level up” and “level down”): transform the same sequence according to different levels and contexts, whether for group lessons or personal practice.

Prerequisites : socks suitable for sliding and a long-sleeved top to protect the shoulders.

All levels are welcome. Numerous adjustments and variations will allow all bodies and participants to progress with ease and enjoyment!