Anatomy 101

You already learned anatomy once.

Origin, insertion, action. Flashcards. A muscle chart you highlighted in three colors and haven't opened since.

And somewhere between that textbook and your actual mat, your actual reformer, your actual client on the table, it stopped being useful.

You can name a muscle. That was never the hard part.

The hard part is seeing it. Watching someone move and knowing, in real time, why their shoulder hikes on the reach, why their low back complains in a lunge, why "engage your core" means nothing until you understand what it's actually engaging for.

This isn't another anatomy course that hands you more vocabulary.

It's a different lens entirely: one built from the nervous system out, so you stop memorizing parts and start reading movement.

• "I know the muscles. I don't know how to see them working."
• "I'm building my own YTT and I don't want to spend six months writing an anatomy module from scratch."
• "I got certified years ago and my anatomy knowledge feels... static. Textbook. Not something I actually teach from."
• "I want to give better cues, not just more of them."
• "I need to find my own voice and stop parroting my teachers."

If any of that landed, keep reading.

Why this exists

I've always taught this way. Yoga was never meant to be about shoving the body into a shape.

As a Licensed Athletic Trainer with an MEd in Biomechanics, I spent years in clinical settings watching the same pattern: someone gets handed a cue: "engage your core," "tuck your pelvis," "squeeze your glutes," "don't let your knees come out of alignment in twisted chair," and has no actual felt sense of what that means in their own body. So they compensate. They push through the same tight hips, the same nagging low back, the same shoulder that never quite lets go, class after class, rep after rep. Never learning body awareness, just doing what they're told and pushing through improper form, not breathing, not building mind-body connection.

Yoga, and movement teaching in general, was built on body autonomy and body awareness, not on forcing tissue into position. When you actually understand why a low back complains in a forward fold, you don't need someone to do 10,000 crescent lunges and twisted chairs and hope for the best. You teach them to feel their glutes turn back on. You take the guessing out of alignment and put the awareness back where it belongs: in the student's own body.

That's the gap most anatomy training leaves open. It teaches parts. It doesn't teach reading, watching a body move and knowing, in real time, what's actually happening underneath the pose.

"I call myself the worst anatomy teacher in the world, because I don't believe that learning anatomical terminology, knowing what a saddle joint is, or knowing the average range of motion for hip extension (fun fact: it's only 15 degrees) will make you a better yoga teacher. But learning how to watch bodies move, and what will empower the bodies in front of you to move more effectively and efficiently for their structure, body type, and shape of their bones… now you're limitless." — Gabby

Anatomy 101 is the course I built to close that gap: starting with the nervous system (because that's genuinely where movement starts, at the brain, not with a muscle name), moving through alignment, tissue, and mechanics, and ending with the rehab basics every teacher eventually gets asked about: herniated discs, sciatica, rotator cuffs, all through the lens of mind-body connection instead of memorization.

What Anatomy 101 actually is

Anatomy 101 is a 3-hour, self-paced, done-for-you course made up of 23 short, focused video lessons, built to move you from "I know the names" to "I can see it happening and teach from what I see."

It's not a semester of A&P. It's not a muscle-by-muscle memorization drill. It's a functional, applied way of understanding the body that you can start using in your very next class.

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