Help me choose the best course for me!
“You have so many courses… Which one is right for me right now?”
This is such a great question!!
Please head on over to this page to see what feels most like you, and please get in touch with us if you want to share more about your personal situation so we can help you choose the best fit.
“I want to take EAK Bones or EAK Muscles. Which one first?”
Great question!
Here’s what Amy has to say about that
Check out details and a full course syllabus below:
Learn more about EAK: Muscles ➝
Timing & Expectations
“How long does each class last?”
Each class video is 2 hours long. Plan on no more than 30 minutes of homework associated with each class.
“How long do I have to finish the course? Can I miss a week?”
That is the beauty of the internet – you can be as relaxed or as efficient as you want to be! If you would like to move through the course at the same pace Amy uses when she teaches the courses live, it would take you about 9 months if you did one class per week. (Except for Fundamentals, which is a shorter course, but still flexible on timing.)
Whatever timeline you choose to follow, we recommend involving yourself in the discussions and staying on top of your homework lesson by lesson, rather than leaving it all for the end. We’ve seen this method work better for students in terms of assimilation & embodiment of the material.
So – watch all 36 classes in 36 days, or take a few years to finish. Either way, apply what you learn in class to your daily life and practice, and then come back with your questions and observations.
“Is there a deadline for homework?”
We recommend finishing one week’s homework before you go on to the next week’s video, simply for your own knowledge and focus.
That being said, the ultimate timeline for homework varies depending on your enrollment options. If you enroll in a single trimester (10 classes), we ask that you finish the homework within 6 months of enrollment. If you enroll in the entire course (30 classes), we ask that you finish the homework within 2 years of enrollment.
How much time is required to complete the training each week?
If you want to move at same pace Amy envisioned when she designed the course, here’s what the schedule would look like:
- One 2-hour video class per week, plus…
- Homework most weeks, consisting of 3-5 review questions or additional activities to help the material sink in.
The classes are structured in three 10-week trimesters for a total of 30 weeks, and there is a short break between each trimester (like a holiday break and spring break,) so the entire course takes about 9 months.
Though it’s nice to visualize what the timeline looks like in person, most online students find it most helpful to fit the online course into their lives, not the other way around. =)
Note for Fundamentals Students:
If you’re taking Fundamentals, the above weekly schedule can still apply. But since the course is 20 hours, you can plan on 10 weeks instead of 30.
“Why are there groups if there is no set schedule?”
Though quite a few students finish the course on their own time, we have found that many people still enjoy moving through an online class as a group.
To help with that structure, we offer a few new “group-starts” every year. It doesn’t mean that you have to stay with the group. You may even catch up to the group ahead of you, or find a more natural rhythm with the group that starts a few months behind you.
Whether or not you start with a group, Amy & your EmbodiedAnatomy.net Support Team will be with you on your schedule, no matter what.
Credit & Certificates
“Can I take this course to fulfill the anatomy requirements of my teacher training?”
If you’re a teacher putting together a YTT…
The answer is “absolutely.” Amy & her co-author, Leslie Kaminoff, put together an anatomy course that’s specifically designed to be a plug-in for teacher training programs who don’t have their own anatomy instructor (or if you just want to give your students Amy & Leslie’s perspective.)
Please check out the info page here to see exactly how we can partner with your school to support your YTT with the YogaAnatomy.net Fundamentals course.
If you’re a student looking to earn a certification…
Without having more information, the answer is “maybe.” Here’s why…
If you’re working towards a certification with the Yoga Alliance, you must go through an entire curriculum that has been previously approved.
If your teacher trainer is still in the stages of planning the training…
…AND they’re on board with submitting one of our courses as your anatomy component, you’ll have more than enough hours to fulfill that, whether it’s a 200, 300, or 500-hour program.
If your teacher has already submitted the curriculum and one of our anatomy courses is not included…
…You could still use the hours towards your “Miscellaneous” hours, as long as you and your teacher trainer are on the same page.
If none of that works…
…We’ll still be here when you need Continuing Education Hours! We’re not going anywhere and we’ll look forward to having you whenever it works out in your journey.
“How many hours does this count for with the Yoga Alliance? And do I get a certification when I’m done?”
WHAT KIND OF HOURS?
Whether you’re submitting these hours as part of a training, or keeping yourself current with Continuing Education Credits, the Yoga Alliance counts online education as “non-contact hours.”
If you happen to study with Amy in person during the year at a conference or workshop, you may count any of those hours towards your required “contact hours.”
HOW MANY HOURS?
The number of hours will vary greatly depending on how you choose to move through the material.
Here’s an example below, using one of our 60-hour courses:
If you complete the entire course, it will be a minimum of 60 non-contact CEUs + homework time.
The Yoga Alliance honors all these activities as non-contact CEUs:
- Watching the core class videos, 60 hours (30 classes x 2 hours each)
- Watching bonus videos (please keep track of your time)
- Homework time (please keep track of your time)
- Online QA with Leslie (please keep track of your time)
- Reading from the book, Yoga Anatomy (please keep track of your time)
CERTIFICATE:
All hours are currently counted by the Yoga Alliance at a 1:1 ratio (1 hour of online study = 1 non-contact hour; 1 hour of in-person study = 1 contact hour). When you finish the course and all the homework in a manner that’s satisfactory to the teachers and the homework coaches, we’ll send you a document that certifies your hours of study.
“Does this count for CEUs with _____ Organization?”
Continuing Education Hours with the Yoga Alliance:
Whether you’re submitting these hours as part of a training, or keeping yourself current with Continuing Education Credits, the Yoga Alliance counts online education as “non-contact hours.”
If you happen to study with Amy in person during the year, you may count any of those hours towards your required “contact hours.” This could be at a conference, or a workshop around the world.
Continuing Education Hours with other Organizations:
We’ve had students successfully use this course for hours with yoga, physical fitness, and continuing education organizations all over the world, including ACE, the British Wheel of Yoga, Yoga Alliance in Australia, and many others.
If you’d like to use this course to help satisfy CEUs for your organization, please use the chat icon in the bottom right corner of your screen to get in touch with us. We’ll send you the course curriculum so you can submit it to your particular standards organization.
Note: If you let us know which organization you’re working with, we might have more details. Please ask!
“Do I get a document of completion?”
If you are enrolled in Bones or Muscles with Amy:
Yes. If you finish your homework up to the standard set by the teachers and homework coaches, we’ll send you a document noting your hours of study at the end of the course.
If you are enrolled in Fundamentals as part of a teacher training:
Please ask your teacher trainer. If there’s a certificate, it will come from them directly, not from us. We cannot grant certificates for this course directly since the content support comes from your teacher training, not from us. Thanks for understanding!
If you are enrolled in the independent study version of Fundamentals:
Yes. If you finish the course and successfully complete one of the final project options, we’ll send you a document noting your hours of study at the end of the course.
Body-Mind Centering®
“What’s the difference between BMC® programs and these EAK online courses?”
Here are the differences between the SME “BMC & Yoga program” and Amy’s online Embodied A&K courses:
Material:
The Somatic Movement Educator program and the Body-Mind Centering & Yoga programs present a curriculum from the School for Body-Mind Centering® (SBMC), based on both traditional and current material developed by Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. The curriculum in these courses covers the full spectrum of BMC material, including the body systems and developmental movement.
Amy’s online Embodied A&K course is deeply infused with the approach of Body-Mind Centering, and covers a great deal of BMC® material, but doesn’t cover all of the SBMC curriculum. It does also include a synthesis of her experiences in Laban Movement Analysis and the Bartenieff Fundamentals, PNF patterns, martial arts, dissections labs, and yoga.
The content is the Skeletal and Ligamentous System (in the first course) and the Muscular System (in the second course).
Faculty:
The Somatic Movement Educator program and the Body-Mind Centering & Yoga programs are team-taught by certified BMC Teachers – Amy is one of several BMC Teachers who teach on the programs in New York, North Carolina, Berkeley CA and Portland OR.
Amy’s online Embodied A&K course is taught by Amy. “Just me. All by my lonesome up there,” says Amy. =)
Course credit:
The online EA&K course does NOT count towards credit on the SME or BMC & Yoga programs.
While the EA&K course does not count towards credit in SBMC courses, it is a wonderful way to see how Amy puts the BMC material into practice – both in the content of the course, and her approach to teaching.
Also, taking EA&K will help you be familiar with some of the anatomy and kinesiology in the BMC courses. And some comfort with the basic material is incredibly useful when you take BMC programs!
What the online program will get credit for:
The online EA&K course can fulfill BMCA’s requirements for Continuing Education, after you have completed your SME or Practitioner training.
The online EA&K course can also fulfill a portion of the requirements for Anatomy, Kinesiology and Physiology study for students in the Body-Mind Centering Practitioner Program.
The online EA&K course can fulfill Yoga Alliance’s requirements for non-contact hours Continuing Education.
Technical Considerations
“I’m more of an “in-person” learner – will this work for me?”
Though studying online is widely available nowadays, we’re the only ones we know of doing it quite like this, so the only way to know if it’s right for you is really to try it out and see if it fits. But let’s examine potential worries from a few perspectives…
If you’re worried that you won’t have a personal experience:
One of the things we really focus on is how to bring as much of the in-person experience to the online community as we can. Certain things are impossible to replicate online, like physical touch. Luckily Amy teaches things like “physical adjustments” less than anything else because she believes it’s most helpful to help students find their way into shapes that they can get back into again by themselves.
But some things are actually easier online, like your ability to take your time with the material and converse with the teachers and homework coaches until you feel like you’ve embodied the information and want to move on. In an in-person class, it’s easy to breeze past nuances because you have to stick to a schedule.
You’ll also have a personal experience with Sarah, your homework coach, that is an added bonus only available online. Our graduates all say that their relationship, and deep learning that happened with Sarah was the biggest surprise benefit of the course.
If you’re worried that you won’t have enough structure to get through the course if you’re at home:
We understand. Since we run the online courses from home, we’ve become experts at strategies to make this easier on yourself. Here are some things to try:
(1) Schedule a Time and Date in Your Calendar, Just Like An In-Person Class
It’s true that “work will always expand to fill the time allotted,” and this can feel even more true if you’re at home with things like laundry and chores to take your attention. The students we hear from have found the most success scheduling each session into our lives, as if it were a regular class.
(2) Have a Dedicated Space Where You Take This Class
Do you ever walk into a yoga studio and decide to turn around and do your laundry instead? No. Because our brains expect certain activities to happen in certain places. This is a concept that psychologists call “structural determination.”
If you carve out a special spot in your own home for class, it will be easier to keep from being distracted once you begin. Something as simple as making tea, grabbing your favorite notebook, and sitting in the same space on the couch each week can be enough…
- You can mold the course around your own life.If you value a flexible schedule, you won’t find anything more accommodating than how we run our online courses.
- You can come back to the material at any time.We have students who’ve graduated from the course who come back, review videos, keep asking questions, and keep assimilating more information into their classes. This is what we want! This is an ever-growing body of information and our journey as “students of yoga” will never truly be over.
“I am not a “techie” person – will this course work for me?”
The answer depends on why you’re nervous, so read on to see if you identify with either of these scenarios…
“I’m nervous because I’m not very good with computers…”
We’ve never had a student decide that the course was not a good fit because it was too difficult to handle from a technical perspective, regardless of age, previous computer experience, or language.
“I’m nervous because I live at the top of a mountain and my cell-phone connection is my only access to the internet…”
This one can be more difficult.
You’ll be either streaming or downloading 2-hour video files, so we’ve found it to be most efficient if you have access to a solid high-bandwidth connection. You can still take the course if you don’t have that, but it may mean overnight downloads, or going someplace with a faster connection to download, then watching later at home.
We’ve had students who are very dedicated to the course who’ve made this work, but it’s nice to have a realistic expectation from the beginning so you know what to expect.
“I thank you Leslie and Amy for bringing this material into the world and making it available to online students.
My greatest fear was to have troubles with the internet, but all your material was so well prepared and organized, there was no problem at all.
I appreciated very much the individual and careful homework tutoring, thank you very much!
I took everything into my teaching. Maybe to me most important ideas of all: many explanations about anatomic representations of the yogic picture-language (e.g. what is kundalini, what is chanting good for, etc).”
Judith Kirchmayr-Kreczi, Austria
P.S. If you’re curious about how your internet speed stacks up, here’s what you can do:
- Click here to go to Speedtest.net and run the test
- Then, use the chat widget in the bottom right corner of your screen to email us and let us know what your download and ping numbers are. We’ll figure it out together.
Community
“How many countries are represented in the online community?”
Wahoo!! Currently, we have members from 46 countries:
- Spain
- USA
- Mexico
- China
- Puerto Rico
- Italy
- Denmark
- Belgium
- Trinidad & Tobago
- France
- England
- Canada
- Australia
- Germany
- Finland
- Ireland
- United Arab Emirates
- Turkey
- Japan
- Scotland
- Russia
- Austria
- India
- Brazil
- Greece
- South Africa
- Taiwan
- Kenya
- Luxembourg
- South Korea
- Netherlands
- Panama
- Slovenia
- New Zealand
- Vietnam
- Saudi Arabia
- Hong Kong
- Thailand
- Macau
- Qatar
- Israel
- Lithuania
- Malaysia
- Lebanon
- Morocco
- Peru
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