PROP LAB
Yoga Props for Anatomy, Biomechanics & Creative Teaching
Stop Teaching Poses. Start Creating Learning Experiences.
A self-paced online training for yoga teachers and curious practitioners who want to experience anatomy and movement, not just memorize it.
$249 • 25 CE Hours • Lifetime Access
25 CE HOURS
LIFETIME ACCESS
PROP LAB HANDBOOK
SELF-PACED
100+ PROP APPLICATIONS
What if props could do more than modify a pose?
Most of us are introduced to props as tools for support. A block brings the floor closer. A strap extends your reach. A bolster makes a pose more accessible.
But props can also be powerful teaching tools. They can create resistance, provide feedback, change sensation, and make an anatomical action easier to feel. They can help students experience what we’re teaching instead of relying on more verbal cues to explain it.
That’s the idea behind Prop Lab.
Through creative, hands-on explorations, you’ll use blocks, straps, blankets, walls, bolsters, resistance bands, and more to investigate anatomy, biomechanics, and movement. Moving through the body from the ground up, you’ll discover how props can help you and your students notice what is happening and understand why.
You’ll leave with practical teaching tools, more than 100 creative prop applications, and a new way of using props that goes far beyond modification.
What Makes Prop Lab Different?
This isn't a course about memorizing muscles. And it isn't a collection of creative ways to arrange yoga blocks. It's a training on how to create learning experiences.
Instead of asking: "What prop should I use?"
Prop Lab teaches you to ask: "What am I trying to help my students notice?"
Once you know that reason, the prop becomes a tool for exploration. You might use a block to create feedback. A strap to create resistance. A wall to make an action easier to feel. A bolster to change someone's relationship to gravity. Or two versions of the same pose to create contrast and help a student notice the difference.
The goal isn't to tell students what they're supposed to feel. It's to create an experience that gives them something to notice.
Inside The Lab
We'll move through the body from the ground up, exploring the major joint actions and movement patterns you encounter in yoga. Along the way, you'll explore:
Anatomy Simplified
Understand the joint action and key anatomy without getting lost in terminology
Hands-On Prop Explorations
Experience movement through guided explorations using blocks, yoga straps, walls, blankets, bolsters, resistance bands, and more
Yoga Pose Applications
Take what you discover in the explorations and apply it to familiar yoga poses
Teaching Applications
Learn how to turn an anatomical concept into something your students can actually experience
Whole-Body Integration
Explore how individual joint actions work together as part of a larger movement system
Reflection & Self-Study
Notice what changes in your body so you can teach from experience rather than assumption
100+ Ways To Explore
Across more than 80 guided movement explorations, you’ll discover 100+ creative prop applications covering the body from the ground up:
ANKLES • KNEES • HIPS • PELVIS • SPINE • FOREARMS • SHOULDERS • SCAPULAE
You’ll then bring these individual pieces together to explore how the body works as an integrated movement system.
The goal isn’t to memorize 100 prop setups. It’s to develop a process you can use to understand movement, make purposeful choices, and create explorations of your own.
Prop Lab Is For You If...
You want to understand anatomy and biomechanics in a way that feels practical, experiential, and applicable to yoga
You want to translate what you know into learning experiences your students can actually feel and understand.
You’re ready to move beyond using the same props in the same ways and bring more creativity, purpose, and adaptability into your teaching.
You’re a curious teacher or practitioner who enjoys exploring movement, asking questions, and discovering why something works.
You don't need to be an anatomy expert.
You just need to be curious.
Take a Look Inside Prop Lab
See how the video lessons, guided explorations, and companion handbook work together to turn anatomy into something you can experience.
Sample lesson: Using resistance to make an action easier to feel
Course view: A snapshot of the course platform
8
Modules
34
Video Lessons
22 Hours
Video Time
What You'll Receive:
Complete Self-Paced Video Training
Move through Prop Lab on your own schedule and return to lessons whenever you want
The Prop Lab Handbook
A companion resource designed to help you follow the explorations, take notes, reflect on what you discover, and begin creating prop explorations of your own
100+ Creative Prop Applications
Build a library of ideas you can return to when planning classes, workshops, or your own practices
Lifetime Access
Come back whenever you need a refresher, inspiration, or a new way to explore a movement
25 Continuing Education Hours
Complete the training and receive a certificate for 25 Continuing Education hours that can be submitted to Yoga Alliance. For Chromatic Yoga Teachers, these hours may also be applied toward your Chromatic Educator Path
The Prop Lab Philosophy
There is no single experience of a yoga pose. Every body brings a different history, structure, nervous system, level of strength, mobility, perception, and experience to the practice. Prop Lab uses props to create opportunities for exploration - not to make everyone feel the same thing, but to help each student notice, learn, and make informed choices about their own body.
SENSATION • RESISTANCE • FEEDBACK • LEVERAGE • STABILITY • AWARENESS
Rooted In The Chromatic Yoga Method
Prop Lab brings anatomy, movement education, and creative exploration together to help you teach with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Clear Educational Intention
Every prop has a purpose. You'll learn why and when to use it for meaningful outcomes.
Experiential Learning
Explore anatomy through movement, feedback, resistance, contrast, and reflection so concepts become something you can feel and apply.
Confident Application
Develop a repeatable process for adapting prop explorations to different students, settings, poses, and teaching goals.
No previous Chromatic Yoga experience is required.
25 hours may be applied toward your Chromatic Educator Path for Chromatic Teachers
Hi, I'm Heidi.
I’m an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer, Chromatic Yoga Lead Teacher and Mentor, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I’ve practiced yoga for more than 25 years, taught for over a decade, and supported more than 120 yoga teachers in developing greater clarity, confidence, and creativity.
My work is rooted in one question: How can we help students understand what they’re experiencing, not simply perform what we’re teaching?
I believe anatomy and biomechanics become most meaningful when they can be felt. Props help us turn abstract information into direct learning experiences by creating feedback, resistance, contrast, and opportunities for discovery.
I created Prop Lab to give you more than a collection of prop ideas. I want you to develop a process for creating purposeful explorations of your own so you can teach anatomy, movement, and yoga with greater curiosity, adaptability, and confidence.
"I want you to leave with a process, not just a collection of prop ideas."
