A 300-hour yoga teacher training, built from a content inventory up
Twenty-four modules, two tracks, and a sheet that showed exactly which weeks had no source yet.
An advanced yoga teacher training with a lecture track and an embodied practice track, taught by several faculty, with years of recorded material in a shared drive. Nobody could say which of the 24 modules were actually covered.
We started with an inventory: 77 source assets mapped to the 24-module schedule across both tracks, which showed that only a handful of modules had lecture content and that two whole tracks were missing. From there we're building the lecture track as microlearning with one frame per lesson, producing the student manual and weekly practice handouts as branded PDFs with editable originals, running the live sessions page with attendance tracking, and structuring the assisting and observing requirements as sign-ups and forms inside the course.
The current cohort is running on the live sessions page, manual, and handouts; the eLearning track is being built module by module alongside it.
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An advanced 300-hour teacher training is two programs braided together: a lecture track that covers philosophy, anatomy, and teaching methodology, and an embodied practice track that has to happen in a body, with a teacher watching. Several faculty had taught it over the years and recorded most of it. The recordings, decks, and handouts lived in a shared drive with a folder structure that made sense to the people who built it. When the school asked which of the 24 modules were actually covered, nobody could answer with confidence.
So the first deliverable was a spreadsheet. We inventoried 77 source assets and mapped each one to the 24-module schedule across both tracks. The sheet made the shape of the problem visible in an afternoon: a handful of modules had full lecture content, many had fragments, and two whole tracks had nothing recorded at all. That inventory became the production plan, and it is still the document the faculty and we work from.
The lecture track is being built as microlearning, one idea per frame, from the recordings that exist and from new sessions where they don't. The student manual and the weekly practice handouts are branded PDFs with editable originals, so the faculty can revise without coming back to us. The live sessions page runs the cohort week to week with attendance tracked in place. The assisting and observing requirements, which used to be managed by email, are sign-ups and forms inside the course.
The current cohort is running on the live sessions page, the manual, and the handouts, and the eLearning track is being built module by module alongside them, following the inventory from the modules with the most source material to the ones that need new recording.