Understanding the Yoga Body 20-Hour Anatomy Training-AMT
The anatomy training your YTT didn't teach you! Practical, applicable, and designed for real bodies in real classes
Limited Time Offer! Full Price $111
Functional, Somatic Anatomy for Real Bodies
Here's the thing:
You don't need to memorize origin points and insertion sites.
BUT YOU DO NEED TO...
👉 Understand what's lengthening vs. strengthening in any pose.
👉 Know how to adapt for different bodies.
👉 Answer student questions without freezing up.
👉 Feel the anatomy and movement to understand and integrate it.
That's what this is!
By the end of this program, you’ll understand:
✓ Why joint stacking matters (and how to teach it without rigidity)
✓ Why so many people have back pain and what actually helps
✓How the nervous system influences flexibility, strength, and pain
✓ Functional vs. aesthetic yoga - feeling vs. looking a certain way
✓ How to guide students to understand the difference between pain & discomfort in their own bodies
✓ How to support different bodies in the same class
✓ How somatic awareness changes alignment
✓ How to recognize fallen arches, how it affects the whole body & how to correct it
✓ What pose variations to offer students with common injuries & ailments
✓ An introduction into the Psoas muscle
✓ How to guide students to trust their own bodies & so much more
This is anatomy that creates safer classes, stronger teachers, and more empowered students.
🚫 Anatomy Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated, Boring, or Overwhelming
Here's what drives me crazy about most anatomy courses... They fail yoga teachers AND students because they:
("What does it matter if I know Longissimus capitis if I can't apply it?")
• Make you memorize origin points instead of teaching you what actually moves
• Ignore the nervous system (the thing that actually controls everything)
• Treat all bodies as if they work the same way (Spoiler Alert: they don't, and you and your students know it)
• Give you theory instead of application (You need to cue tomorrow's class, not pass a medical exam)
• Leave you defaulting to vague spiritual language when you're not sure what's actually happening biomechanically...
That’s why so many teachers leave anatomy trainings still unsure how to:
• Cue safely
• Understand back pain
• Explain why joint stacking matters
• Adapt poses for different bodies
• Have knowledge of how to offer hands on support
• Support students without fear of injury
• Offer variations of postures for common injuries
• Answer questions about the body that students often ask
This course is different.
Get instant access to experiential, beginner-friendly somatic, trauma-informed anatomy training
This Anatomy is for ALL Humans, NOT only Anatomy Nerds
Understanding the Yoga Body is different from every other anatomy course you've considered (and maybe bought but never finished).
You won’t be asked to memorize Latin names ❌
You won’t be tested on obscure muscle actions ❌
You won’t feel overwhelmed or left behind ❌
Instead, you’ll learn:
✓ Why bodies move the way they do (and why some bodies might move differently)
✓ Why pain patterns repeat
✓ How posture, stress, and breath connect and affect our anatomy
✓ Common injuries and ailments found in yoga classes (and how to teach around them safely)
✓ How to teach yoga without forcing anyone into shapes that don't fit their body
✓ How to do physical assessments just by watching a student move
This is anatomy you can actually feel AND use in class, in life, in your own body.
This program blends:
✔ Functional anatomy
✔ Somatic awareness
✔ Nervous system education
✔ Energetic anatomy (grounded & practical)
✔ Real-world teaching experience
✔ Western medical understanding
✔ Yoga philosophy (without the fluff)
Instead of learning anatomy about the body, you learn anatomy through the body.
Because when you understand what movement feels like:
→ You stop forcing poses
→ You cue with precision instead of hoping something lands → Your students feel safer (because they ARE safer)
→ Injuries decrease
→ Confidence increases
Not because you memorized a textbook but because you understand bodies!
This course was completely amazing and life-changing. There is so much more to it than just yoga. It was intense, and a lot of emotional and physical work, but totally worth it. It would be worth taking even if you did not want to teach yoga. It is great to be part of such a wonderful group of people, and to have learned from such great teachers.
who this is for:
No prior anatomy experience required. No 200-hour certification required. Just curiosity and a body.
YOGA teachers
Teachers who want to stop guessing and start knowing
Teachers tired of rigid alignment rules that don't work for every body
Movement educators seeking a somatic, embodied approach
Teachers wanting a deeper understanding of functional yoga
Yoga Students
Who want to understand their own bodies
Anyone intimidated by traditional anatomy
Humans curious about why their body feels the way it does
People wanting to understand how to vary the poses based on their injuries, ailments or differences in their bodies
Yoga is Science... And Science is Lived
We explore energetic anatomy (chakras, koshas, vayus) not as belief systems, but as early maps of human physiology.
You’ll learn how ancient yogic teachings describe:
- the nervous system
- emotional patterning regulation and dysregulation
- stress and disease embodiment and awareness
This is yoga as science, taught in a grounded, accessible way.
Ready to Understand the Yoga Body — From the Inside Out?
If you’ve ever felt confused by anatomy…
If you’ve ever worried about hurting a student…
If you’ve ever wanted to teach with more confidence and less force…
This course was created for you.
💬 What Students Are Saying
Meet Your Guide
You'll be learning from someone who's lived on both sides of anatomy, in emergency rooms AND on yoga mats.
👋 I'm Colynn Cespedes and I've:
✔ Spent 17 years as an ER nurse (seeing real bodies, real injuries, real healing)
✔ Completed 2 years of medical school training
✔ Have been practicing yoga for over 25 years
✔ Trained 1,000+ teachers globally over 11+ years
This program comes from real bodies, real injuries, real healing, and real teaching experience - not theory alone.
I've seen what happens when anatomy is taught like medical school (students memorize everything and apply nothing).
And I've seen what happens when it's taught for MOVEMENT (students understand their bodies and teach with confidence).
I've treated real injuries in the ER. I've guided real bodies through healing. I've answered real questions from curious teachers. I developed this course from all of this, not just textbooks.
We'll make complex ideas simple and tie scientific theory into the human experience.
🎓 What You Get:
✓ Lifetime access to course materials
(Learn at your pace, return whenever you need a refresher)
✓ Experiential anatomy lessons
(Feel it in your body first, then teach it to others)
✓ Functional movement labs
(Practice what you're learning, don't just think about it)
✓ Somatic practices
(Understand how sensation guides movement)
✓ Nervous system education
(Finally make sense of why some students can't "just relax")
✓ Clear teaching frameworks
(Know what to say and when. No more fumbling for words)
✓ Immediate application to your classes
(Use this in tomorrow's class, not "someday")
This is education you will return to again and again. It's not a course you complete once then forget.
PLUS: You'll gain something no other anatomy course gives you:
→ The ability to look at ANY body in ANY pose and understand what's happening.
This is the difference between a teacher who took an anatomy course and a teacher who UNDERSTANDS anatomy.
Limited Time Offer! Full Price $111
