Where Brain Cradle Materials Come From — and What You’re Paying For

One of the questions I receive most often is:

"Where does the curriculum come from?"

It's an important question—and one I take seriously.

The answer begins with Yoga Alliance's educational standards.

Yoga Alliance publishes recommended educational topics for each registered school designation—including RYS 200, RYS 300, RYS 500, RPYS, and RCYS.

Brain Cradle uses these recommendations as the organizational framework for its Curriculum Foundations, developing educational content that introduces each topic in a clear and structured way.

How Brain Cradle Develops Curriculum

Yoga Alliance identifies what should be taught.

Brain Cradle develops educational resources that help schools teach those subjects.

Rather than providing a simple checklist of recommended topics, Brain Cradle introduces each topic with written educational content designed specifically for yoga teacher training programs.

Every Curriculum Foundation is developed by organizing, synthesizing, and communicating information into a cohesive training manual that Lead Trainers can customize to reflect their own teaching style, lineage, philosophy, and educational goals.

Where the Educational Content Comes From

While Yoga Alliance identifies the subject areas to include, it does not provide the curriculum itself.

The educational content within Brain Cradle's Curriculum Foundations has been developed through years of yoga study, professional teaching experience, continuing education, and research across a wide range of sources.

These resources include traditional yogic texts, contemporary anatomy and movement science, instructional design, educational theory, trauma-informed perspectives, and the work of respected yoga educators.

Brain Cradle does not claim ownership over yoga or its teachings. Instead, we organize existing knowledge into educational resources that support high-quality yoga teacher education.

What Brain Cradle Creates

Brain Cradle is a Yoga Curriculum Design Studio.

We create:

• White-label Curriculum Foundations

• Teacher training manuals

• Educational frameworks

• Student learning resources

• Homework and assessments

• Visual learning tools and original illustrations

• Curriculum development resources

These materials provide a structured starting point that schools can expand, customize, and adapt to their own programs.

Our Philosophy

Yoga education belongs to no single person or organization.

It is the result of thousands of years of evolving knowledge shared by teachers, practitioners, researchers, and communities around the world.

Brain Cradle's role is not to redefine yoga.

Our role is to transform educational expectations into organized, teachable curriculum that supports yoga schools in creating meaningful teacher training experiences.

Every Curriculum Foundation is designed to help educators spend less time building documents from scratch and more time teaching.

You be the brain, we'll be the cradle.