Applied Structural Asana
Applied Structural Asana is a focused program for understanding how long-held patterns in the body shape movement, posture, and lived experience. This work approaches asana not as a generalized practice, but as a precise and responsive tool for seeing and addressing structural imbalance.
Rather than memorizing poses or sequences, students learn how to observe the body intelligently. Attention is placed on posture, range of motion, joint mechanics, and habitual movement patterns, alongside the ways these patterns reflect stress, adaptation, and compensation over time.
This program is designed for practitioners who want to refine their ability to see the body clearly and work with it skillfully.
What This Program Explores
Students develop the ability to:
Identify ingrained structural and movement patterns contributing to pain, limitation, or inefficiency
Apply asana, breath, and subtle techniques in targeted and appropriate ways
Understand how physical patterns are shaped through repetition, injury, adaptation, and lived experience
Work with the musculoskeletal system while remaining attentive to the nervous system and subtle body
Assess, document, and track change over time through clear observation
Structure and Focus
Study unfolds through a progressive exploration of the body, including posture, joint range of motion, and region-specific patterns. Emphasis is placed on learning how to assess before intervening, and how to apply practices that are both corrective and sustainable.
Students work with:
Posture and alignment patterns
Joint mobility and restriction
The relationship between stability, mobility, and compensation
Structural patterns in the hips, knees, feet, spine, neck, and shoulders
Targeted asana practices designed to disrupt habitual patterns and support functional change
An Integrated Approach
Applied Structural Asana bridges anatomical understanding with embodied awareness. Physical structure is viewed through multiple lenses, including functional anatomy, yogic models of the body, and subtle patterning across the koshas.
Meditation and deep relaxation are used to support integration, allowing change to occur not only through effort, but through awareness and release.
A Standalone Path
This program is offered as a complete, self-contained course of study. While elements may later be explored through individual workshops, the full pathway is designed to be taken as a cohesive whole.
