Advanced Alignment & Adjustments

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Bliss Army Certified Yoga Teacher 500 hour
Blissology Advanced Alignment and Adjustments

Advanced Alignment and Adjustments is a transformative module for certified yoga teachers who want to teach asana with greater intelligence, precision, and grace. This course counts as 50 CEUs towards Yoga Alliance 500-hour certification and is one of five modules on the Blissology 500-hour certification path.

You’ll learn refined Blissology Biomechanical principles, such as DUO (Dynamic Unifying Opposition), that create more Stretch, Stability, and Space in every pose. These tools will empower you to skillfully guide each student into variations that support their unique anatomy, maximizing benefit while minimizing injury risk.
This training goes beyond moving bodies around. You’ll learn how to somatically educate your students somatically, enhancing their mind-muscle connection so they become active participants in creating optimal alignment. Why give someone a fish when you can teach them to fish? Your adjustments will help them feel empowered, embodied, and aligned from within.

Whether or not you use physical touch in your classes, developing hands-on skills will sharpen your ability to cue poses with precision verbally. Touch, when used with consent and confidence, becomes a powerful teaching tool—not just for correction, but for connection and insight.

Expect in-depth explorations of applied anatomy and physiology—not just memorizing cues, but truly understanding what’s happening beneath the surface. You’ll also grow in your own physical practice, especially in advanced asanas like inversions and deep stretches.

Your students will feel the difference—and so will your teaching.

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About The Course

  • In-Person Training
  • 50 Hours of RYT 500 Yoga Alliance Certification
  • 4x Day Immersion to deepen your knowledge with yoga, nature, and community at an epic immersion location
  • Training Manual & Materials >30,000 Word comprehensive Blissology Training Manual
  • Real Time Discussions with Eoin and Students
  • Online Training
  • Take this training online anytime
  • 50 Hours of RYT 500 Yoga Alliance Certification
  • Video Review & Comment from 500 Hour Certified Mentors

We’ll consider teachers or advanced students from all yoga schools, but you’ll need to apply to make sure that you have a working knowledge of the fundamentals of yoga alignment. For those of you on the Blissology 300- or 500-hour teaching track, this course offers an exceptional return on investment.

It will be a valuable step towards teaching Blissology Signature Courses, such as Blissology Yoga Foundations workshops, Yoga Optimized courses, and becoming a Lead Assistant at Blissology YTTs.

  • 200 hour Yoga teacher
  • Read and own the Yoga Optimized by Eoin Finn
  • Complete the Yoga Optimized course online or in-person before the start of the course
    (we will offer the Yoga Optimized online course at a discounted rate as a package price for the January course)
  • Willingness to learn
  • Honor appropriate touch and consent

Day 1 – Core Line Integration Poses

  • Lolosana
  • Crow
  • Handstand to Crow
  • Crow to Handstand assists
  • HandStand: Urdvha Mukha Vrisksanana
  • Forearm Stand: Pincha Mayurasana
  • Peacock: Mayurasana

Day 2 – Back Body Stretches

  • Tithi
  • Spilits: Hanumanasana
  • Handstand Splits
  • Handstand Wall Drills
  • Tithi > Crow > Handstand Transition 
  • Baby Grasshopper
  • HSPU
  • Press to Handstand
  • Stag Pose

Day 3 – Front Body Stretches

  • Tuck Handstands + Hollwbacks
  • One Leg Wheel: Eka Pada Urdhva
  • Dancer’s” Natarajasana
  • Hero Pose: Virasana
  • Scorpion (Vrschikasana)
  • One Leg Pigeon: Eka Pada Raja
  • Laghu Vadrasana 
  • Full Pigeon working on grabbing feet: Kapotasana
  • Drop Backs
  • Sissy Squats to wheel pose
  • Downward Dog to Wheel Pose

Day 4 – Lateral Side Body Stretches

  • Handstand Wall Work
  • Lotus Padmasana
  • Parivritta Padmasana
  • Peacock Pose in Lotus
  • Galavasana
  • Grasshopper
  • Side Crow Koundiyasana 1
  • Side Crow Koundiyasana 1 from Headstand 

Day 5 – Lateral Side Body Stretches

  • Samukonasana
  • Koundinyasna 2 
  • Parivritta Padmasana
  • Astavrkasana to Koundinyasana
  • Lateral Handstand Splits 
  • One Arm Handstand

t. Few things in life are as rewarding as helping others find the deep release in a skillful yoga assist—I want you to have these skills and to understand this unique approach to alignment and our lives. It is a joy to be able to teach and share with others how to make yoga safer and more enjoyable, utilizing a deep understanding of the principles behind the poses. It is an honor to serve others on their journey towards health, healing, and fulfilling their life’s purpose. That is what this course is all about!

  • Master Blissology Biomechanics, including DUO (Dynamic Unifying Opposition) to create Stretch, Stability, and Space in every poseGuide students into anatomically intelligent poses tailored to their unique structure
  • Deliver safe, confident, and effective adjustments that prevent injury and enhance embodiment
  • Shift from passive adjustments to somatic education, empowering students through mind-muscle connection
  • Understand the 5 Blissology Steps for adjusting, assisting, and integrating
  • Learn the art of touch and attunement with integrity, consent, and presence
  • Gain in-depth understanding of anatomy, physiology, and the planes of movement in asana and adjustments
  • Enhance your ability to verbally cue with precision—even if you don’t use touch in your classes
  • Learn the Blissology Advanced Asana Series with emphasis on inversions and deep expressions of poses
  • Establish a solid foundation to teach Blissology signature Alignment courses
  • When you have a confidence level of 10/10 for giving a safe yoga adjustment, your classes will skyrocket to the next level and your classes will become full

Testimonial

Certification

Blissology is a certified 200 hr, 300 hr, and 500 hr School with the Yoga Alliance, a globally known organization that upholds yoga standards. We have been leading trainings since 2002.

This course counts toward 50 hours for the Blissology Yoga 500-hour certification.
Or you can earn 50 Yoga Alliance CEUs (in order to maintain your RYT status on Yoga Alliance, you need to report at least 30 hours of training every three years and this course will give you 50 hours towards that).

Daily Schedule

🧘DAY 1

🧘 DAY 2 – @ 8am – 6:30pm (90 min break for lunch)
1:30- 3:30 pm – Cherry Nectar: An Advanced Blissology Vinyasa Flow (Open to public)

🧘DAY 3 – 18 8am – 6:30pm (90 min break for lunch)
1:30–3:30 pm – Liquid Asana and Inversions (Open to public)

🧘DAY 4 – @ 8am – 6:30pm (90 min break for lunch)

MASTER CLASSES FOR THE PUBLIC

Cherry Nectar: An Advanced Blissology Vinyasa Flow

For those who crave the transformative power of classic vinyasa

Cherry Nectar is a potent, soulful vinyasa experience for practitioners who long to move, breathe, and sweat with purpose. This practice is for those who crave classic yoga flow where challenge transforms the body and focuses the scattered mind until all that remains is deep presence and the bliss of the soul.

In a time when our attention is constantly fragmented by the digital world, Cherry Nectar brings us back to what yogis call samadhi, not just bliss, but focused, undistracted awareness. Through intelligent sequencing, refined alignment, and breath-led movement, this class recalibrates your nervous system, cultivates deep strength, and restores clarity to your being.

Expect powerful flows, inversions, and deeper expressions of yoga poses that will expand your edge while anchoring you in presence. You’ll leave feeling fit and focused, but also clear, uplifted, and deeply connected to your source.

Cherry Nectar is more than just a practice, it’s a state of embodied grace. This workshop is best suited for experienced yogis and teachers seeking depth, challenge, and flow.

Liquid Asana and Inversions 

Liquid Asana and Inversions is an advanced-level Blissology experience that fuses the fluidity of Superflow with the discipline of tapas and the focus of deep drishti. Move through wave-like, breath-led sequences that build strength, grace, and clarity as we explore inversions and deeper expressions of yoga poses. Expect breathwork, meditation, intelligent biomechanics—and a healthy dose of fun. Modifications will be offered, so you can play at your edge while staying safe and embodied. For those ready to go deep, join us at Nandi Yoga San Mateo from 1:30–3:30 PM on Sunday, January 18, 2025

Location

Nandi Yoga, San Mateo, CA

Nandi Yoga is 4,000 square-foot space that includes three air-conditioned practice rooms (including a separate meditation space), two large bathrooms with showers and changing areas, and a fully stocked retail area with all the mats, props, clothes, and accessories to support your practice.

🛫 Flying In

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is the recommended airport for your travel to Nandi Yoga. It’s a major international hub and just 10 minutes by car (outside rush hour) from the studio.

  • Most major U.S. and international airlines fly into SFO.
  • There are rideshare pick-up zones and rental cars easily available.
  • If you’re staying at an airport-area hotel, most offer free shuttle service from SFO.

📍 Directions from SFO to Nandi Yoga

Any hotel close to SFO is also convenient to Nandi Yoga. Below are some suggestions:

✈️ Airport-Area Hotels (10–12 minutes to Nandi)

🏠 Airbnb Options

There are no hotels within walking distance of Nandi, but Airbnb offers a range of private homes and guest suites nearby:

🔗 Explore San Mateo Airbnb Listings

🏨 Foster City Alternative

💸 How to Save on Hotel Bookings

Here are a few ways to score a deal:

  • Hotels.com – Loyalty program with 1 free night after 10 stays.
  • Booking.com – Genius members save 10–20%.
  • Hotwire – Big discounts on last-minute “Hot Rate” rooms.
  • Kayak / Trip.com – Compare across many booking platforms.
  • Membership Discounts – Check for AAA, AARP, or student (UNiDAYS) savings.
  • Cash-back extensions – Use Rakuten, Honey, or others for bonus rebates.

Tip: Compare prices on the hotel’s official site versus third-party platforms and book early!

The Teacher

Eoin Finn

The Canadian native is a globally renowned yogi, surfer and Blissologist who has been carving his original tracks through the metaphysical worlds of yoga, philosophy and movement since 1989. He has taught yoga to over 300,000 students and has run Yoga Teacher Trainings since 2002.

Lauded by Yoga Journal as the “Thoreau of Yoga” for his eco-activism and dedication to connecting yogis more deeply to the spirituality of nature; and by Oprah as “one to watch,” Finn’s Blissology Yoga style centers on the simple idea of sharing happiness.

Eoin studied anatomy and physiology at Harvard Medical School and exercise physiology at the University of California, Berkeley. While rooted deeply in yoga’s therapeutic and transformative alignment and physiology, his down-to-earth, modern spiritual insights refresh like cool water. He firmly believes that to find bliss, you must “seek quiet solitude in nature.”

A passionate ocean-activist, he started the Blissology EcoKarma project in 2014, raising aid and awareness through yoga and activism for the world’s precious but imperiled coral reefs