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CATALOG INFORMATION
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Discipline and Nbr:
ATHL 2 | Title:
YOGA FOR ATHLETES |
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Full Title:
Yoga for Intercollegiate Athletes |
Last Reviewed:8/14/2023 |
Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
Maximum | 1.50 | Lecture Scheduled | 0 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 0 |
Minimum | 1.50 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| Contact DHR | 3.00 | | Contact DHR | 52.50 |
| Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| Total Out of Class Hours: 26.25 | Total Student Learning Hours: 78.75 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
34 - 4 Enrollments Total
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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Students will learn yoga techniques related to sport performance, injury prevention, and mental skills. Students will use Hatha yoga asanas (postures) which will emphasize sport-specific flexibility, strength, balance, and coordination. Students will utilize yoga techniques for mind-body connection and centering, which will include breathing and relaxation methods.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Students will learn yoga techniques related to sport performance, injury prevention, and mental skills. Students will use Hatha yoga asanas (postures) which will emphasize sport-specific flexibility, strength, balance, and coordination. Students will utilize yoga techniques for mind-body connection and centering, which will include breathing and relaxation methods.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:34 - 4 Enrollments Total
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
Associate Degree: | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Spring 2018 | Inactive: | |
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UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Spring 2018 | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Both Certificate and Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Demonstrate Hatha yoga asanas and techniques.
2. Create a beginning level yoga practice designed to improve sport-specific flexibility, muscular strength, balance, and coordination.
3. Describe relaxation, breathing and centering yoga methods.
Objectives:
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At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Apply principles of movement and body awareness during Hatha yoga postures.
2. Demonstrate beginning level Hatha yoga asanas including floor, seated, kneeling, and standing postures.
3. Integrate proper breathing techniques during yoga asanas.
4. Design and perform personal practices based on sport-specific flexibility, muscular strength, balance, and coordination.
5. Apply yoga techniques and benefits into sport practices, competition, and daily life practices.
6. Repeating students must demonstrate an increased depth and breadth of related skills, with new learning objectives.
Topics and Scope
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I. Yoga Principles
A. Movement principles
1. Sagittal flexion, extension, and elongation
2. Lateral flexion, extension, and elongation
3. Rotation
4. Inversion
5. Centering
B. Body awareness
1. Alignment
2. Balance
3. Integration
II. Beginning Level Hatha Yoga Asanas
A. Beginning seated asanas
1. Easy pose
2. Seated spinal twist
3. Cobbler/Butterfly pose
4. Head to knee forward bend
5. Seated forward fold
6. Staff pose
B. Beginning floor asanas
1. Happy baby/Dead bug
2. Corpse (Savasana)
3. Bridge
4. Legs up the wall
5. Sphinx
6. Reclining hand to big toe
7. Downward facing dog
C. Beginning kneeling asanas
1. Modified plank
2. Modified side plank
3. Gate pose
4. Cat-cow
5. Low lunge (knee down)
6. Child's pose
7. Kneeling back bend
D. Beginning standing asanas
1. High lunge
2. Standing back bend
3. Warrior I & II
4. Standing forward fold
5. Mountain
E. Beginning balance asanas
1. Tree pose
2. One leg chair pose
F. Modifications
III. Pranayama (Breathing) Techniques
A. Integration with yoga asanas
B. Relaxation and meditation
C. Cleansing and clearing
IV. Yoga Practice
A. Designing a sport-specific personal yoga practice
B. Integrating yoga practice into athletic competition and daily living
C. Benefits of yoga
D. Using yoga techniques functionally
E. Meditation practices
V. Repeating students must demonstrate increased depth and breadth of related skills, with new learning objectives.
Assignments:
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Students are expected to spend an additional one and one-half (1.5) hours per week outside of class on one or more of the following activities:
Writing Assignments, such as:
1. Journal entries
2. Written personal yoga goals (1 page)
3. Reading assignment responses
4. Written discussion of reading assignments
5. Reflective analysis of personal growth, experience, and progress (1-2 per semester)
Skill Demonstration Assignments, such as:
1. Personal sport-specific yoga and/or meditation practice
2. Skill performance examination of proper techniques and beginning level yoga asanas
3. Repeating students demonstrate an increased level of performance.
Exam Assignments, such as:
1. Midterm and final exams
2. Quizzes
Other Methods of Evaluation:
1. Attendance
2. Participation
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing 10 - 30% |
Writing assignments | |
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving 0 - 0% |
None | |
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations 20 - 40% |
Skill demonstration assignments | |
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams 10 - 30% |
Exam assignments | |
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category 40 - 60% |
Attendance and participation | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Yoga for Athletes: 10-Minute Yoga Workouts to Make You Better at Your Sport. Pohlman, Dean and Starrett, Kelly. Alpha. 2021.
Instructor Prepared Materials
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