The Non-boring anatomy resource, that teaches you things you will actually use.
Did you take a yoga teacher training, or have you taken manual therapy training and wondered if you’ll ever understand (or care about) anatomy and physiology? Most of the time A&P is either glossed over or really crammed in quickly in an effort to meet minimum educational requirements or to try and pack you with as much as possible within such a vast field. You often also get taught a bunch of myths that have been disproven time and time again.
If that sounds about right, or if anatomy and physiology is something that you’re consistently finding confusing, this online resource is built to meet your needs.
“your grasp of multiple complex concepts and ability to communicate this knowledge in a way that’s understandable and effective for all levels is remarkable” ~ Lisa
“Taking Drew’s online A&P course seriously is the best, clearest A&P course I have ever taken (and I trained as a massage therapist and yoga teacher multiple times). This course goes way beyond just memorizing the names of the muscles and bones. You’ll learn HOW IT ALL WORKS too!!! If you’re a professional yoga teacher or movement educator, you need to be able to communicate like a pro.” ~ Noémi
Course Schedule/Details:
Course begins >> |
As soon as you register (Login details in welcome email) |
Pre-recorded content >> |
26 lectures you can take at your own pace And you will have access forever |
Live calls >> |
Once a month – indefinitely! (Selected monthly in collaboration) |
We cover this and more:
Nervous System |
Musculoskeletal
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Pain Science |
Biomechanics |
Rehabilitation
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Nuance instead of
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Here’s what you’ll take away:
- • a better idea of what is myth and what is fact, making your teaching more accurate
- • the ability to be clearer with your communication in class
- • greater confidence that comes from a more nuanced understanding of how the human body works
- • an improved ability to answer the questions your students bring you
- • some major lightbulb moments, by connecting theory with experiences
What if you’ve taken A&P training before?
Be prepared to have some of your ideas and previous things you’ve learned challenged within this online library. Even if you’ve studied A&P before, you’ll learn something new here, or be asked to unlearn something. Even though it’s not the purpose of this course, we do bust quite a lot of myths that are still very commonly passed around.
This resource is for both beginners and those who have taken a good handful of steps into A&P study. It’s designed especially to either begin your journey with the best possible foundation, or to return to the foundation and fill in gaps that you didn’t even know where there.
Here’s Hannah – the prime example of exactly that:
“I thought the course was one of the most important course I’ve taken, from the perspective of someone who teaches movement and teaches teachers…I love how it filled the gaps that I wasn’t aware needed filling…It’s been invaluable in the development of our own Yoga Teacher training here in the UK!”
Does the following list get your curiosity spiking? This is part of what we’ll be doing in the course:
- • tackling the convoluted topics of pain, and how they relate to movement and manual therapy
- • dispelling the idea that muscles are “too short”, or that your bones won’t let you move there as reasons for a lack of flexibility
- • showing you why “listening to your body” is so much more complex than you think
- • discussing the nervous system, including a popular detour into the topic of the vagus nerve
- • teaching you the real role of lactic acid (and how it doesn’t create muscle soreness)
- • unlearning the idea that joints are easily categorized by type
- • visualizing movement through planes and preparing the ground for things like movement assessment
- • discerning the ways in which we might be limited in our movement, and how training and adaptation might have a role to play that you didn’t previously know about
- • and truly so much more
Registrations closed until 2026.
Here are the details of what you’ll find inside:
| Section | Lecture | Lesson Time | Quiz Time |
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| Starting Points | 1.0 – Planes 1.1 – Anatomical Position 2.0 – Locating Terms |
20 mins 4 mins 20 mins |
5 mins 2 mins 5 mins |
| Joint Essentials | 3.0 – Joint Actions 3.1 – Clarity on Planar Mvmt 3.2 – Hyperextension 3.3 – Effort vs. Position |
40 mins 13 mins 19 mins 23 mins |
5 mins 5 mins 5 mins 5 mins |
| Muscles | 4.0 – Muscle Physiology 4.1 – Lactic Acid 4.2 – Muscles & Bone Density 4.3 – Trigger Points |
45 mins 23 mins 13 mins 25 mins |
10 mins 10 mins 10 mins 10 mins |
| Biomechanics | 5.0 – Joints in Action 5.1 – Biomechanics Defined 5.2 – Knee Biomechanics 5.3 – Runner’s Knee 5.4 – Arthritis & Mvmt |
33 mins 34 mins 27 mins 26 mins 17 mins |
10 mins 10 mins 10 mins 10 mins 10 mins |
| Nervous System | 6.0 – The Nervous System 6.1 – Sensations 6.2 – Pain 6.3 – Trauma & the Brain 6.4 – Vagus Nerve |
35 mins 50 mins 1 h 13 mins 26 mins 21 mins |
10 mins 15 mins 15 mins 10 mins 10 mins |
| Mvmt & Adaptation | 7.0 – Limitations to Mvmt 7.1 – Proprioception 7.2 – Flexibility & Mobility 7.3 – Adaptations & training Types 7.4 – Motor Control & Skill Acquisition |
16 mins 17 mins 20 mins 54 mins 25 mins 15 mins |
10 mins 10 mins 10 mins 15 mins 10 mins |
| 12 hours | 4 hours | ||
| + 6 hours of live calls | In total: | 22 hours |
As you can see, this course is absolutely packed with information. Don’t pass up the opportunity to answer the questions that have been burning the proverbial hole in the back of your mind. See you in there.
Hello! Thanks for checking the course out. I’m Drew and I’ll be the one guiding you through this curriculum, should you choose to take the plunge.
Many movement educators and manual therapists feel that the anatomy & physiology education within YTTs and Thai yoga massage training is not enough. When I took my training in both these fields I was shocked at that anatomy and physiology education was barely contained within these programs. For disciplines that are working directly with the human body there really should be more solid information taught on the bodies mechanisms.
Since then, Navina was created in an effort to get you this information – to fill the gaps. And it’s been incredible to see how much more clarity (and confidence) people leave with after studying this content. It’s been the missing link for so many. It also means that when someone comes to you with an injury or concern, once you’ve taken this course you can actually work on a treatment plan or a movement regimen that properly accounts for these things.
This online program is here so that you can feel grounded in understanding how the body moves, what drives movement, what prevents it, and what you can to do about it. It is NOT a regional anatomy course. Regional anatomy can only be properly understood once you learn the content housed within this intro course – so this course sets you up for further study. This course is just the beginning, but it’s the beginning that most of us never got in our YTT or manual therapy education.