The Missing Half: Resistance Training for Yoga Teachers
with Jason Crandell
30th September – 4th October

£699

 

Yoga has given us extraordinary tools – flexibility, body awareness, breath connection, and the capacity to move with genuine intelligence. These are real, lasting gifts worth protecting.

 

But yoga, for all its sophistication, leaves significant gaps.

 

Most yoga practitioners are simultaneously over-lengthened and under-strengthened in the same tissue groups. We stretch our posterior chains extensively and rarely load them. We train pushing patterns repeatedly and almost never train pulling patterns. These aren’t criticisms of yoga – they’re honest observations about what any single modality can and cannot do.

 

Resistance training fills those gaps. Intelligently, accessibly, and without asking you to leave yoga behind.

A New Chapter

Built on 30 Years of Trust

For thirty years Jason has built his teaching around one commitment: giving yoga teachers and practitioners the clearest, most honest, most scientifically grounded understanding of the body he can offer.

 

This training is the next expression of that same commitment.

 

Over the last several years Jason has pursued advanced certifications in exercise science and performance – completing the EXOS Performance Specialist certification and the NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist certification, with the NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist exam in progress. He has spent this time not to become a personal trainer, but to develop the depth of knowledge needed to bring resistance training into a yoga context with the same rigor, care, and intellectual honesty he brings to everything else he teaches.

 

If you have studied with Jason before, you know what to expect: science you can understand, techniques you can feel in your body, and teaching you can use immediately. This training delivers all of that – with an expanded toolkit.

What Is The Missing Half?

The missing half is the resistance training that most yoga practices don’t include – and that most yoga practitioners genuinely need.

 

It is the loaded hip hinge that develops posterior chain strength yoga’s forward folds never build. It is the horizontal pulling pattern that balances a decade of Chaturangas. It is the spinal extensor work that teaches us to backbend with our spines rather than do a backbend to them.

 

None of this replaces yoga. All of it completes it. And none of it requires leaving yoga’s soul behind – the breath remains the anchor, the quality of attention remains alive, and the principles of intelligent, sustainable practice remain fully intact.

What You Will Learn

The Science – Accessible, Honest, and Immediately Useful

  • How strength develops neurologically and muscularily – and why the first changes you feel will surprise you
  • Where yoga leaves movement pattern gaps – and the specific resistance training patterns that address each one
  • Why resistance training and yoga are not competing modalities – they are complementary ones

 

The Movement Patterns — Organized Around Function

  • The hip hinge, squat, and single-leg patterns – the posterior chain work yoga consistently undertrained
  • Anti-extension and anti-rotation core training – the stability qualities yoga rarely develops under load
  • Spinal extensor strengthening – building backbends from within rather than leveraging the spine into position
  • Horizontal and vertical pulling, external rotation – the shoulder patterns essential for long-term health that yoga almost never trains

 

The Integration – Framework and Practical Application

  • How to incorporate resistance training into your existing yoga classes
  • Fully integrated practice classes – including backbend focused, arm balance focused, and standing pose focused sessions, and more – each building on the science and movement work of the day, and immediately adaptable to your own teaching
  • How to bring yoga’s philosophical framework to resistance training so the work remains genuinely yogic

How This Will Transform Your Practice and Teaching

  • Your posterior chain will develop the concentric strength yoga’s stretching alone cannot build
  • Your backbends will originate from muscular contraction rather than external leverage – more sustainable, more intelligent, more embodied
  • Your shoulder girdle will become genuinely balanced – pushing and pulling patterns in equilibrium for the first time
  • You will have a principled framework for exercise selection grounded in functional anatomy – not a random collection of exercises
  • You will be able to offer your students something genuinely new, taught with yoga’s intelligence and care

Who This Is For

  • Yoga teachers at any level who sense that something is missing in their practice or teaching – and want to understand what it is and what to do about it
  • Teachers curious about resistance training who want to integrate it intelligently rather than randomly
  • Anyone who wants to practice and teach more sustainably – with a body that is as strong as it is flexible

What to Expect

This is a five-day immersive training combining science-based teaching with hands-on practice – so that what you learn is immediately confirmed in your body.

 

The equipment is minimal and accessible: resistance bands, loops, a kettlebell, a chair, and yoga blocks. Everything fits in a bag. Nothing requires a gym. No prior resistance training experience is needed – this training is designed for yoga teachers who are curious, not experts.

 

Please bring your own resistance bands and loops. While Mission will have some kettlebells, we encourage you to bring your own, personalised to your abilities, from 8 kg – 12kg.

 

Please note the hours of the training:

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday – 9:30 – 17:00

Saturday and Sunday – 12:30 – 18:30

 

Your Teacher

Jason Crandell
Jason has been teaching yoga for more than 30 years, teaching everywhere from local studios around the  globe to providing trainings at the world’s most prestigious yoga conferences and events.

 

More importantly for this particular training, Jason has been a pioneer in online teaching and training for nearly a decade and he has learned to incorporate best practices for online learning from online educational specialists.

 

Jason has not rushed from behind to get his trainings online like so many others — he’s been honing this process for years.

 

Over the decades, he has continued to refine and improve the way he trains, guides, and supports teachers in his advanced trainings.He prioritises critical thinking skills, the integration of modern sports science with ancient understanding in asana technique, and creating a lasting community of peers.

 

In addition to teaching layers and layers of sequencing, Jason focuses on helping teachers develop compelling and comprehensive curriculums for their students. His Bachelor’s in Philosophy and years of studying yoga philosophy helps him communicate the essence of the yoga tradition in a clear, honest, and accessible way.

 

Most importantly, he has worked to ensure that his students are seen, supported, and educated in a comprehensive way — helping them develop a career as a teacher and make a positive impact on their students.