Body and Breath - Test Yourself

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Test yourself, February, 2003

You are scheduled to teach an all-day (six hours total) lecture and practicum on yoga and anatomy to 30 hatha yoga teachers using Anatomy of Hatha Yoga as a textbook. The assignment: Outline the first one of four, 1½ hour sessions (which run 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, 4:00 to 5:30 PM, and 7:30 to 9:00 PM) covering at least a few representative postures and topics from each chapter. You can assume that everyone has a book in front of them, that no one has studied it critically, and that five of the 30 teachers have a biomedical background. Please design your course as a whole (and this first session) so that it does not bore the five students with some background in biology and that at the same time does not leave the remaining 25 students frustrated and lost.