Ethics, Scope of Practice & Sustainable Teaching

Date: Friday, January 8-10, 2027
Time: Friday 5:30pm-8:30pm; Saturday-Sunday 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:00-5:00pm.
Cost: $467
Discounts: 10% for BE Members / Mysore Members
Capacity: Limited to 20 participants per module to support an intimate learning environment
This training welcomes dedicated practitioners who are drawn toward deeper inquiry, anatomical understanding, and embodied learning. While teaching applications are present, the material is also explored through self-practice, peer learning, and reflection. Many participants find this training brings clarity and maturity to their relationship with practice—whether or not they choose to teach.
This program works well for continuing education and advanced credentialing. The modules emphasize applied learning, integration, and long-term teaching intelligence—supporting teachers who are expanding their depth, scope, and sense of responsibility in their work.
Overview:
Module Six brings the training into its ethical center. After developing perception, structural understanding, continuity, and applied intervention, participants turn toward the responsibility that comes with influence, touch, and long-term engagement in practice and teaching spaces.
This module explores how and when to teach, not simply what to teach. Ethics, scope of practice, trauma-informed awareness, and sustainability are approached as lived skills—shaped by relationship, context, and time—rather than as abstract principles or rules to follow.
Here, teaching with discernment is understood as skill. Listening is understood as action. And sustainability—physical, emotional, and relational—is recognized as a reflection of maturity in both practice and teaching.
Learning Objectives:
By the completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Develop sensitivity around when and whether to teach or intervene, recognizing timing, discernment, and listening as meaningful forms of skillful action.
- Navigate the ethical dimensions of influence, authority, and touch within teaching relationships, with attention to power dynamics, consent, and responsibility.
- Clearly understand and honor the limits of the yoga teacher’s role, using scope of practice as a foundation for safety, trust, and integrity.
- Recognize how trauma, history, and context shape student experience, and respond with clarity, consistency, and choice rather than technique or interpretation.