Moving Anatomy & Intelligent Teaching
A series of 8 workshops for yoga and movement teachers who want to move beyond static anatomy and into living, felt understanding — of how the body moves, and how that knowledge is perceived, integrated, and taught.
Dates
June – November 2026
8 Fridays · 13:00–17:00
Venue
Inner Embassy
Den Haag, Netherlands
Price
€52 per workshop
Full series discount available
The first training series of its kind for yoga and movement teachers at Inner Embassy
About the Series
Anatomy you don't just memorise.
You experience.
This continuing education series is for teachers and practitioners who want to move beyond static anatomy and into living, felt understanding — not only of how the body moves, but how movement knowledge is perceived, integrated, and taught.
A series of 8 workshops in two main sections. The first 5 workshops focus on movement anatomy.
Here, anatomy is not something you memorise — it's something you experience. Through embodied exploration, functional anatomy, and nervous system awareness, you'll deepen your ability to sense, articulate, and transmit what you know. You'll explore how fascial continuity, skeletal organisation, and neural patterning inform both personal practice and skilful pedagogy.
You'll unlock both the science and the subtle intelligence of the fascial system, bone structure, and nervous system — discovering how tension, fluidity, and sensory feedback influence strength, mobility, posture, energy, mood, and mental clarity. This understanding directly shapes how you sequence, cue, and support students with greater clarity and confidence.
Each workshop includes lecture time, movement explorations to utilise the anatomy, and applied information in a sequence. Teaching sessions also include time to refine and utilise your skills with feedback and Q&A.
Series details
Format
In Person
Workshops
8 total
Duration
4 hrs each
Time
13:00–17:00
Venue
Inner Embassy
Who is this for?
Yoga teachers, movement facilitators, and dedicated practitioners ready to feel more, question more, and teach with greater intelligence.
Part One
Anatomy & Movement
5 workshops · June – September 2026
Fascia and Movement
Learn what fascia really is—beyond the buzzword—and explore its role as a sensory, communicative, and adaptive system. Many teachers confuse fascia with a wrapping around the muscles, but it is so much more. Everything in the body is connected via the fascial system, and therefore it is vital to understand what it is, how it affects movement and stillness.
We’ll examine how fascia transmits force and information, responds to load, and supports both stability and elasticity through embodied movement exploration. You’ll gain a felt understanding of fascial continuity and practical ways to work with it in movement and teaching.
Feet to the Pelvis
The feet are the gateway to the pelvis and its stability and connection to the spine. Balance, transitional movement and load bearing all begin in the feet. Explore the muscular, fascial, and skeletal pathways connecting the feet, legs, and pelvis. Through embodied exploration, you’ll experience how spring-loading, weight transfer, and sensory input from the feet influence pelvic organisation, spinal support, and core stability.
Hands to the Core
Your hands begin at your navel! I know this sounds crazy but when we investigate the
connection of the muscle and tissue from our hands, as support mechanisms, they begin deep in the core. Think of all the wrist and shoulder issues in yoga practices. This is totally preventable when we unlock the activation of serratus, obliques, lower trapezius and latisimus dorsi.
In this eye-opening and myth-busting session, we’ll explore the deep fascial and neurological connections linking the hands, arms, and trunk. You’ll learn how to initiate movement from deeper support rather than isolated shoulder effort, transforming how strength is organised in upper-body work. Most importantly, eliminate wrist and shoulder issues for you and your students.
The Spine, Neck, and Head
In a world where we sit at computers or look at our phones, we put a strain on our necks, which deeply affects our head placement and upper back. We call this postural alignment, but modern convenience has it out of whack.
In this session, you’ll understand the spine and its elasticity as a responsive, adaptable system rather than a fixed structure. We’ll explore functional relationships between spine, neck, and head, including healthy ranges of motion and the impact of habitual postural patterns.
The Nervous System and Movement
Every movement is a conversation with the Nervous System. Our yoga practice, from the moment we arrive, is a dialogue with the inner workings of this amazing network that observes, registers and reacts to every movement, thought and breath.
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This session explores how perception, coordination, and regulation shape movement quality. You’ll examine how stress, safety, and attention influence motor patterns and learning. Throughout this series, we’ve worked with the Nervous System response in relation to the varying body movements. But this session is fully focused on how our shift in perception, our approach and beliefs about our bodies and what creates resistance or releases pain. This information is then applied to movement phrases so that we can connect the knowledge immediately.
Part Two
Teaching Skills
3 workshops · October – November 2025
Language Skills
For teachers, language is everything. Fancy sequences and advanced poses do not make a good teacher. What sets you up for excellence is HOW you communicate in class. Do you empower or shame students into poses? Do you understand the subtle difference between asking a question or showing an option? Most teachers rely on cue-based instructions, and while that’s fine as a new teacher, there is no empowerment in it. Enhancing your language skills will elevate your teaching beyond what you could imagine.
As we move beyond a purely shape-based approach, this session explores how to develop language that speaks to sensation, experience, and internal organisation. We’ll refine how and when to cue to support learning without overload. To empower and encourage. How to use language to make each individual feel they belong, are in the right place in their body and breath.
Integrating Yoga Philosophy
Many teachers genuinely want to bring philosophy into their classes, yet often struggle to make it feel relevant to what is actually being taught in the body. When philosophy is layered on top of movement without relationship, it can feel forced, abstract, or disconnected—leaving both teacher and students unsure of its purpose.
This session explores how philosophy can emerge from embodied experience rather than being imposed upon it. We’ll examine ways to integrate philosophical inquiry within your sequence structure that directly supports movement, perception, self-study, and choice—allowing philosophy to feel lived, meaningful, and responsive rather than performative or didactic.
Ethics, Boundaries, and the Unspoken Skills
Many of us come from lineages and training environments that discouraged questioning, blurred boundaries, or normalised shame-based approaches in the name of tradition or authority. These patterns—often inherited rather than consciously chosen—have failed students and teachers alike, creating harm, confusion, and power imbalances that were rarely named or examined.
In this session, we explore how to maintain authenticity and respect for lineage without perpetuating cultural baggage or outdated power structures that emerged as yoga was transmitted into Western contexts. Through reflection, discussion, and practical frameworks, we examine consent, boundaries, touch, authority, and responsibility in ways that support integrity, clarity, and mutual respect.
Booking
Ready to join?
Book individual workshops or the full series directly through Inner Embassy. Each workshop is €52 · Full series €369
Workshops run June – November 2025 · Fridays 13:00–17:00 · In person at Inner Embassy
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Your Teacher
Julie Martin
25+ years of research into yoga, dance, fascia, natural movement, and somatic awareness. Over 500 teachers trained worldwide since 2003.
Julie is known for challenging yoga norms when they no longer serve the body — blending modern anatomy with embodied inquiry. The work is quietly rebellious, grounded, and practical.
