Detailed Program Structure
The Bones & Folklore 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training is structured in three modules, with each module comprised of 90 hours of training (270 training hours). The remaining 30 hours are self-study hours, including each participant’s development of The Bones & Folklore Project which is due upon program completion. This program is delivered 100% virtually, with the core content for each module offered as follows:
3 Weekly Prerecorded Lessons (6.75 Hours Per Week, 27 Hours Per Month, 81 Hours Per Module)
2 Live Virtual Immersions Per Module (4.5-5 Hours Each, 9-10 Hours Per Module)
Detailed Overview of the 2025 Program
Module I: New Moon Rasa
The first module invites participants to see a yoga practice through the lens of story. Participants learn to frame the “plot” of a class, class series, or workshop according to relevant folklore and practice sourcing vinyasa kriyas from the old stories. The first module includes significant instruction on subtle body anatomy, particularly the nine chakra and 3 Celtic cauldron systems. Participants work with archetypes, as energetic containers of meaning, to inspire their asana and body prayers and learn to weave the art of storytelling into their asana classes
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Week I: Lesson I ~ Foundations: From Yogic Kriyas to Body Prayer
Week I: Lesson II ~ Integration: Plotting a Practice
Week I: Lesson III ~ Application: The Singing Bone Class
Week II: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Five Elements in Yoga
Week II: Lesson II ~ Integration: Turning the Wheel
Week II: Lesson III ~ Application: The Seal-Wife Class
Week III: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The 9 Chakras and 3 Cauldrons in Yoga
Week III: Lesson II ~ Integration: Energy Dialogue
Week III: Lesson III ~ Application: The Handless Maiden Class
Week IV: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Five Tantric Actions
Week IV: Lesson II ~ Integration: Once Upon A Time Project
Week IV: Lesson III ~ Application: Personal Myth Exploration Class Live Immersion: Our Once Upon A Time
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Week I: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The 13 Archetypes
Week I: Lesson II ~ Integration: Meeting the Original Forms
Week I: Lesson III ~ Application: Archetypal Body Prayer Class
Week II: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Lover Archetype
Week II: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Heart Language
Week II: Lesson III ~ Application: Body Prayers of the Lover Archetype
Week III: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Shepherd Archetype
Week III: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Hands Language
Week III: Lesson III ~ Application: Body Prayers of the Shepherd Archetype
Week IV: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Innocent Archetype
Week IV: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Wild Language + The Stories We Live Project
Week IV: Lesson III ~ Application: Body Prayers of the Innocent
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Week I: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Pranayama and Plot
Week I: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Breath Story
Week I: Lesson III ~ Application: Breath and Eye Class
Week II: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Shine and Shadow I
Week II: Lesson II ~ Integration: Duality in Asana Practice
Week II: Lesson III ~ Application: Bone and Fascia Class
Week III: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Shine and Shadow II
Week III: Lesson II ~ Integration: Power and Surrender in Asana Practice
Week III: Lesson III ~ Application: Shine and Shadow Class
Week IV: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Bright and Dark Shadows
Week IV: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Shine and Shadow Project
Week IV: Lesson III ~ Application: Villain and Heroine Class Live Immersion: Our Shine and Shadow
Module II: Full Moon Rasa
Inspired by the energies of “fruition” or the climax of a story’s plot, the second module invites participants deeper into philosophies of the folkloric body and holds space for them to create their own body prayers and “asana stories” based on the themes of initiation, mythic intelligence, and yoga practice as “rite” or ritual. Participants learn to tell several initiation stories through kriya, asana, breath, and guided visualization to support their students in self-transformation.
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Week I: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Trinity of Initiation
Week I: Lesson II ~ Integration: Fate, Destiny, and Emergence
Week I: Lesson III ~ Application: The Severed Braid Class
Week II: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Severance and Fairy Tale Death
Week II: Lesson II ~ Integration: Rites of Passage
Week II: Lesson III ~ Application: The White Cat Class
Week III: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Liminality and Cocooning
Week III: Lesson II ~ Integration: Descent and Underworld Navigation
Week III: Lesson III ~ Application: Inanna’s Descent Ritual
Week IV: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Renewal and Emergence
Week IV: Lesson II ~ The Woodland Initiation Project
Week IV: Lesson III ~ Application: The Swan Maiden Class Live Immersion: Initiation in the Woodland
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Week I: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Archetypes of Fruition
Week I: Lesson II ~ Integration: Waking the Queen
Week I: Lesson III ~ Application: Archetypal Body Prayer Class
Week II: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Sovereign Archetype
Week II: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Solar Plexus and Personal Agency
Week II: Lesson III ~ Application: Body Prayers of the Ruler Archetype
Week III: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Joker Archetype
Week III: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Language of Laughter
Week III: Lesson III ~ Application: Body Prayers of the Joker Archetype
Week IV: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Warrior Archetype
Week IV: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Language of Battle + Wandering the Dark Immersion
Week IV: Lesson III ~ Application: Body Prayers of the Warrior
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Week I: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Shifting Shape
Week I: Lesson II ~ Integration: Yoga of the Shapeshifter
Week I: Lesson III ~ Application: Samyama Class
Week II: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Mythic Intelligence
Week II: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Embodied Myth
Week II: Lesson III ~ Application: Mythic Body Class
Week III: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Story of the Eight-Limbed Path I
Week III: Lesson II ~ Integration: Call to Adventure
Week III: Lesson III ~ Application: Shiva and Parvati Class
Week IV: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Story of the Eight-Limbed Path II
Week IV: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Hidden House Project
Week IV: Lesson III ~ Application: Night Vision Class Live Immersion: Our Hidden House
Module III: Dark Moon Rasa
Inspired by the waning and dark moon, the archetypes of autumn, and the “ever after” of a story, the third module invites participants to apply their understanding of the work we have done thus far and further integrate narrative intelligence with asana teaching practice. Participants work with “shanti rasa,” the Tantric Actions of “letting go” and “grace,” and isvara pranidhana or “laying your practice at the feet of god.” Participants work with our final archetypes and name them teacher, concluding our work by presenting their Bones & Folklore Project during our final immersion.
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Week I: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Air and Ether in Yoga
Week I: Lesson II ~ Integration: Walking with One Foot in Both Worlds
Week I: Lesson III ~ Application: The Song of Longing Class
Week II: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Yoga of Sound and Soma
Week II: Lesson II ~ Integration: Chanting the Cauldrons
Week II: Lesson III ~ Application: The First Howl Class
Week III: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Yoga of Wedding the Wilder Self
Week III: Lesson II ~ Integration: Animal Bride and Bridegroom Stories
Week III: Lesson III ~ Application: The White Wolf and the Wildflowers Class
Week IV: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Ceremony and Sacred Space Creation in Yoga
Week IV: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Shared Harvest Project
Week IV: Lesson III ~ Application: The Self-Designed Rite Class Live Immersion: The Shared Harvest
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Week I: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Archetypes of Autumn
Week I: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Ancestral Story
Week I: Lesson III ~ Application: Archetypal Body Prayer Class
Week II: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Rebel Archetype
Week II: Lesson II ~ Integration: Transformation and the Rebel’s Language
Week II: Lesson III ~ Application: Body Prayers of the Rebel Archetype
Week III: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Mage Archetype
Week III: Lesson II ~ Integration: The Alchemic Language
Week III: Lesson III ~ Application: Body Prayers of the Mage Archetype
Week IV: Lesson I ~ Foundations: The Wounded Healer Archetype
Week IV: Lesson II ~ Integration: Our Fallow Seasons Project
Week IV: Lesson III ~ Application: Body Prayers of the Wounded Healer
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Week I: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Land, Sea, and Sky
Week I: Lesson II ~ Integration: Bones & Folklore Project Preparations I
Week I: Lesson III ~ Application: Dreaming the Wheel Class
Week II: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Earth and Water
Week II: Lesson II ~ Integration: Bones & Folklore Project Preparations II
Week II: Lesson III ~ Application: Kapha Characters Class
Week III: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Water and Fire
Week III: Lesson II ~ Integration: Bones & Folklore Project Preparations III
Week III: Lesson III ~ Application: Pitta Characters Class
Week IV: Lesson I ~ Foundations: Air and Ether
Week IV: Lesson II ~ Integration: Bones & Folklore Project Preparations IV
Week IV: Lesson III ~ Application: Vata Characters Class Live Immersion: Our Ever After
What to Expect
Our course portal will be updated monthly once our program begins. On the fifth of the month beginning in March 2025, you will find all 24 lessons for the month (1) as well as the zoom link to join our immersion live if applicable (2) and all additional templates and content (3). Attendance at the live immersions is required, but a full recording of the immersions will be posted the day after the immersion ends for your reference. In the event you cannot attend an immersion live or need to arrive late/leave early, you will be asked to notify Danielle in our course portal. The immersions will be held between 10am and 3pm ET and include necessary breaks.. It is strongly recommended that participants keep up with the weekly lessons so they do not fall behind. However, see below for key “touchstone dates” to support your meeting the objectives on time.
Module I: New Moon Rasa Dates
March 5th, 2025 Lesson Release: Our Once Upon A Time
March 29th, 2025 Our Once Upon A Time Live Immersion
Touchstone Date: April 4th, 2025 ~ By this date, it is recommended students have viewed all lessons from our first month together and submitted the immersion reflection.
April 5th, 2025 Lesson Release: The Stories We Live
Touchstone Date: May 4th, 2025 By this date, it is recommended students have viewed all lessons from our first month together and submitted the immersion reflection.
May 5th, 2025 Lesson Release: Our Shine and Shadow
May 17th, 2025 Our Shine and Shadow Live Immersion
Touchstone Date: June 4th, 2025 By this date, it is recommended students have viewed all lessons from our first month together and submitted the immersion reflection.
Module II: Full Moon Rasa Dates
June 5th, 2025 Lesson Release: Our Woodland Initiation
June 7th , 2025 Our Woodland Initiation Live Immersion
Touchstone Date: July 4th, 2025 ~ By this date, it is recommended students have viewed all lessons from our first month together and submitted the immersion reflection.
July 5th, 2025 Lesson Release: Wandering the Dark
Touchstone Date: August 4th, 2025 By this date, it is recommended students have viewed all lessons from our first month together and submitted the immersion reflection.
August 5th, 2025 Lesson Release: Our Hidden House
August 9th Our Hidden House Live Immersion
Touchstone Date: September 4th, 2025 By this date, it is recommended students have viewed all lessons from our first month together and submitted the immersion reflection.
Module III: Dark Moon Rasa Dates
September 5th, 2025 Lesson Release: Our Shared Harvest
September 27th , 2025 Our Shared Harvest Live Immersion
Touchstone Date: October 4th, 2025 ~ By this date, it is recommended students have viewed all lessons from our first month together and submitted the immersion reflection.
October 5th, 2025 Lesson Release: Our Fallow Seasons
Touchstone Date: November 4th, 2025 By this date, it is recommended students have viewed all lessons from our first month together and submitted the immersion reflection.
November 5th, 2025 Lesson Release: Our Ever After
November 15th Our Ever After Live Immersion
Touchstone Date: December 5th, 2025 By this date, students must have viewed all content from the course, presented their final Bone & Folklore Projects, and submitted their final course reflections and syntheses.
