This Training Is For You If...

• You teach any yoga class where students over 50 show up — which is every yoga class

• You work privately with clients who have osteoporosis, osteopenia, or age-related bone loss

• You've been teaching "yoga for osteoporosis" and sense there is more to the story

• You want to stop passing along unexamined, contradictory advice about what your students can and cannot do

• You are a yoga therapist who wants a deeper, more nuanced framework for this population

Your students are aging. Their bones are changing.

And most yoga teacher training programs never prepared you for this.

A diagnosis of osteoporosis or osteopenia is not rare. It is not limited to frail elderly women in chair yoga classes.

These students deserve better than a list of poses to avoid. And you deserve the training to give them something better.

What You Will Learn

The Science

• Bone physiology— through the lenses of Western anatomy and Eastern models including Ayurveda

• The DXA scan — what it measures, what it misses, and how to help your students interpret it

• Fracture risk — beyond bone density to bone quality, fall risk, and whole-person assessment

• Aging science — lifespan development, stereotype embodiment, the nocebo effect, fascia, and the gut-bone-nervous system connection

• The research on yoga and bone health — including Fishman's 12 poses, what the evidence actually supports, and where the gaps are

The Framework

• The pañcamaya modelas a whole-person teaching tool

• How to assess a student through all five dimensions — not just the physical body

• How each dimension connects to bone health — from the structural to the psychospiritual

• Viveka — cultivating discernment in yourself and your students

The Teaching Skills

• Cueing for bone health — what to say and what to remove from your language

• Nocebic cueing — how to identify and eliminate fear-based language from your teaching

• Forward bends, twists, and inversions — the nuanced truth

• Sequencing principles — not a fixed sequence but a living, adaptable framework

• Balance and proprioception — how to teach body schema effectively

• Scope of practice — what is and isn't your role

• Marketing your classes accurately, ethically, and compellingly

The Integration

• A 90-minute follow-up session two weeks after the weekend to discuss what you put into practice

• Real scenarios, real questions, real refinement

All sessions take place live on Zoom — recorded with lifetime access

Day 1

Saturday, September 12

9:00am — 3:00pm Pacific

Day 2

Sunday, September 13

12:00pm — 3:00pm Pacific

Integration Session

Saturday, September 26

10:00am — 11:30am Pacific

What Bone-Informed Yoga Is

Bone-informed yoga is not a style. It is not a specialty niche for frail older adults. It is not Fishman's 12 poses. And it is emphatically not a longer, more cautious do's and don'ts list.

Bone-informed yoga is what happens when you understand the whole person in front of you — their bones, their nervous system, their fear, their aging beliefs, their fascia, their gut, their breath — and you teach from that understanding rather than from a generic protocol.