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The practice you repeat deserves to be understood
Master the Alignments of Classical Sun Salutation: A 16-Lesson Online Sun Salutation Course
Twelve poses. One sequence. The journey to learn each pose correctly. Sun Salutation is more than a sequence of movements — how you practise it influences your body, prana, and mind. In this self-paced online course, Deep Kumar draws on 22 years of teaching experience to guide you through the Classical Sun Salutation, position by position and transition by transition, so you can practise and teach with greater clarity, safety, and confidence.
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The challenge with sun salutation
You Know the Sequence. But Do You Know What Your Body Is Doing?
What if the practice you do to create balance is quietly creating imbalance?
Think about how you actually learned Surya Namaskar. In almost every vinyasa class, there is barely any time for a teacher to cue alignment. You know the pattern: inhale, arms up… exhale, forward fold… inhale, half lift… exhale, step back. Breath, pose name. Breath, pose name. That is the guidance.
But have you ever heard a teacher cue you with real precision? Told you exactly how to lift your arms without your lower back taking the strain? Exactly how to fold forward in a way that protects your knees and your spine, instead of loading them?
That precision is rare. And it is the difference that decides whether your practice heals you or slowly wears you down. Repetition does not correct itself. It reinforces. One round with compensation is harmless. A hundred rounds is called injury.
This matters even more when you teach. Every cue you give either protects your student or slowly harms them. Knowing the sequence is not the same as seeing what is happening inside it, and being able to guide the body in front of you, not just the breath count.
The challenge is not remembering the order. It is understanding what each position is asking of the body underneath it.
Compounding compensation
Lower back strain
Rushed transitions
Breath that never settles
The gap in the understanding
When the Sequence Becomes Automatic
01
Memory replaces attention
Once the order is memorised, the body no longer needs the mind to move through it, so the mind leaves and the movement continues without it.
02
Compensation fills the gap
Wherever strength or mobility falls short, the body borrows from somewhere else to complete the shape, most often the lower back, the wrists, or the neck.
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The cost accumulates invisibly
Discomfort eventually surfaces, but with no single moment to point to, it rarely gets traced back to the pattern that built it.
When we do not understand how each position is organised in the body, the most repeated practice in yoga becomes the one most likely to wear us down. This is what Master the Alignments of Classical Sun Salutation is designed to change.
Introducing the program
Master the Alignments of Classical Sun Salutation
Twelve Poses. Twelve Teachings. One Complete Practice.
This course takes the sequence apart, teaches each position on its own terms, and then puts it back together as one continuous flow.
With 22 years of teaching experience, Deep Kumar guides you through the sequence the way he teaches it in the shala. He begins with the mistakes he has watched thousands of students make, then gives the correction, the adaptation, and the reason behind it. Foot placement before pose. Breath before speed. Understanding before flow.
Each lesson goes beyond learning the shape of a position. You will understand the alignment that supports it, the joint it puts at risk, the variations for tighter hamstrings, sensitive knees, or restricted shoulders, and the short cue that secures it.
And as the twelve positions come together, they become more than a sequence to repeat. Trust in the backbend. Humility in the fold. Release in the lunge. Courage in the plank. A new view in the inversion. Gratitude in the bow.
Ancient meaning · Modern clarity · One position at a time
Where physical precision becomes inner awareness
From Following the Flow to Understanding It
This course teaches you to work with principles rather than depend on a fixed set of instructions. As you practise, you begin to recognise when a knee needs to bend, when the back leg needs to lift, when the shoulders need to move away from the ears, and when to stop entirely. You also learn where each position becomes unsafe for your particular structure, and what to do about it.
It gives you the ability to adapt the sequence to the body you have today, which is not always the body you had yesterday.
It also travels. The foot alignment taught in the opening position is the same alignment you will use in every standing pose you ever practise. What you learn here does not stay inside Surya Namaskar.
“The journey is from pose to presence. Pose is a medium to bring a human into presence.“
Deep Kumar
One sequence, examined completely
What You Learn in a Sun Salutation Course
A meaningful alignment course gives you cues short enough to use mid-flow and reasons deep enough to trust.
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Stand well before you move, building each foot on its two mounds and the centre of the heel, with a neutral pelvis above.
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Recognise the four structural patterns that change how you enter the sequence: knock knees, bow legs, hyperextended knees, and pelvic tilt.
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Create the standing backbend from the legs and the side body, so the lower back and the throat stay free.
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Fold from the hip joints with the heart leading, bending the knees whenever the hamstrings ask for it.
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Place the hands so the wrists, elbows, and shoulders are supported through plank, eight-limb pose, and downward-facing dog.
06
Lift in cobra through the back muscles rather than pushing with the arms, with the buttocks descending toward the heels.
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Move through the transitions with control, since this is where most compensation hides.
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Coordinate the breath once alignment is familiar, including where to inhale, where to exhale, and where to pause.
What many practitioners miss is how small the corrections are. A heel turned out a few degrees. A thumb moved slightly closer to the index finger. A back knee lifted rather than sinking. None of them look dramatic from the outside. All of them change where the weight travels, and across a few hundred rounds that difference becomes the whole practice.
Begin exactly where you are
Who This Sun Salutation Course Is For
You do not need open hamstrings, a strong plank, or years of practice. You need a mat, a little curiosity, and a willingness to slow down.
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Daily practitioners
Know that the round you repeat every morning is serving you rather than slowly wearing on you.
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Yoga teachers
Bring fewer, clearer cues into the sequence you lead in almost every class.
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Newer practitioners
Build the sequence correctly from the start rather than unlearning it later.
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Vinyasa and Ashtanga practitioners
Understand what speed asks of the wrists, shoulders, and lower back.
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Practitioners with sensitive joints
Find intelligent options for knees, wrists, necks, and lower backs that have something to say.
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Curious students
Discover what the twelve positions have always meant, not only how to perform them.
You Do Not Need a Strong Practice
The journey starts with standing, because everything the sequence needs is already present there. You are never asked to straighten a leg that does not want to straighten, or to hold a plank you cannot yet hold. Bent knees, lifted heels, knees on the mat, blocks, and stopping to breathe are all part of intelligent practice.
Sixteen lessons · One complete round
The Complete 16-Lesson Curriculum
The course moves in the order of the sequence itself, from standing through to the final bow, then adds the transitions, the breath, and two complete guided rounds. Each lesson stands alone, so you can return to a single position whenever it needs attention.
Why This Sequence Has Been Practised for Centuries
Meet the structure of the course and meet Surya Namaskar as a physical, psychological, spiritual, and meditative practice.
Learning How to Simply Stand
Establish the standing foundation through the feet, knees, pelvis, spine, chest, shoulders, and head.
The Backbend That Asks You to Trust
Learn to create the standing backward bend through grounded legs, spinal length, heart opening, and a relaxed neck.
Go Forward, and Bend
Explore how to fold through the hip joints while preserving length through the spine and adapting for tighter hamstrings.
Where Held Things Are Released
Build stability through the front foot, knee, pelvis, back leg, spine, and breath within the lunge.
The Courage to Face Your Own Self
Develop whole-body support in plank through conscious use of the hands, shoulders, pelvis, legs, and feet.
The Yogi's Way of Bowing Down
Learn the eight-point bow with greater awareness through the wrists, elbows, shoulders, spine, chest, and neck.
Lift With the Back, Not the Arms
Explore Cobra through active back muscles, grounded legs, spinal length, heart opening, and reduced dependence on the hands.
Change the View, Change the Vision
Find spinal length and shoulder freedom while adapting the legs according to your own mobility.
The Part of the Sequence Nobody Teaches
Learn different ways to step forward while preserving knee alignment, spinal length, pelvic support, and control through the transition.
Everything, In Order, Together
Bring the individual alignment principles together through one complete, consciously guided round.
Why Love Comes Before Logic
Explore Deep's intention behind beginning with the left side and experience additional support through inner-thigh and core awareness.
Where to Inhale, Where to Exhale
Add breath coordination once the physical alignment has become familiar, allowing breath and movement to begin working as one.
Securing the Joints, Position by Position
Distil the course into clear alignment cues and experience the complete practice with attention to vulnerable joints and muscular support.
The Child You Are Practising Back Toward
Return to the deeper intention of yoga through flexibility, relaxed breathing, innocence, playfulness, inner quiet, and enjoyment of life.
Slow It Down Until It Becomes Meditation
Discover how slowing Classical Sun Salutation down can transform the sequence into a meditative practice.
“Understand your body, understand your mind, and through that understanding, transformation begins.“
Deep Kumar
Founder and Lead Teacher, Yoga New Vision
Meet Your Teacher,
Deep Kumar
Twelve Poses. One Journey from Body to Presence.
Deep Kumar came to yoga not as a career, but as a calling. Born and raised in India, he trained in some of the most prestigious academies in the country before spending two decades founding schools, teaching thousands of students, and quietly refining what he believed yoga could truly be.
Yoga New Vision is his fourth school, and his most personal. It is the one he built when he finally had the clarity to offer yoga in its purest, most embodied form.
What makes his teaching of Sun Salutation distinctive is where it starts. Not with the ideal shape, but with what he has actually watched happen in a room: the knee that drifts inward, the shoulder that creeps toward the ear, the lower back that takes the weight the legs should be carrying. He teaches the correction because he has seen the mistake, thousands of times, in thousands of bodies.
In the shala, Deep is unlike most teachers you have encountered. He carries the curiosity of a scientist and the warmth of a dear friend. He teaches with laughter, with precision, and with a genuine delight in watching something unlock in you. Many call him the laughter yogi, and when you experience a session with him, you will understand why.
“Understand your body, understand your mind, and through that understanding, transformation begins.“
Ancient wisdom, taught with modern clarity
The School Behind the Course
Yoga New Vision has refined its heart-led approach through years of teaching many bodies, cultures, and ways of learning.
At Yoga New Vision, we believe wisdom has many voices. The ancient teachings of Indian yoga speak to the soul. Modern science speaks to the body. Eastern philosophy maps the inner landscape. Western psychology and research give language to what we feel, live, and pass on. When all of these are honoured fully, something beautiful happens, not a compromise, but a coming home.
This is the heart of our YNV Method: a holistic approach where Eastern wisdom meets Western science, where ancient philosophy meets modern psychology, and where timeless practice is illuminated by today’s research. We hold every tradition with equal reverence.
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FROM THE HEARTS OF OUR Students
What Students Say About Learning With Deep
Fifteen thousand students since 2009, in more than fifty countries, and five stars across Google, Yoga Alliance and Facebook. What moves us is not the number. It is the note that arrives from someone practising alone in a living room on the other side of the world, who has just understood a pose they have been doing for ten years.
5.0
The best yoga course I have ever attended
“The instructor is extremely experienced and able to convey everything needed to perform the exercises in a clear and understandable way. The explanations are detailed and go beyond the physical level of yoga. His cheerful and kind teaching style is also very captivating.”
5.0
A deeper understanding after 10 years of teaching
“Very well-presented instruction from a warm, genuine, and knowledgeable teacher. I have been teaching yoga for 10 years and have found a deeper understanding and new insights into yoga practice through these presentations. Namaste, and many thanks to you, Deep Kumar.”
5.0
Perfect for beginners and safe practice
“Absolutely superb course. Perfect if you are just starting out or want to understand how to protect your joints and back. Very engaging, and it doesn't move through things too quickly, so you have time to process and practice. Loved it!”
4.5
I could see exactly where I was going wrong
“My alignment is better than before, and I can feel the difference in my body too. The stretches feel good. I could see exactly where I was going wrong and have now corrected my postures. Thanks so much for putting this course together.”
5.0
New alignment details in every pose
“Even though I have practiced Sun Salutations for years, I learned new details about alignment in every pose. Deep gives so many helpful alignment cues. It is a simple yet very powerful practice. I absolutely loved this course and highly recommend it.”
5.0
The best yoga course I have ever attended
“The instructor is extremely experienced and able to convey everything needed to perform the exercises in a clear and understandable way. The explanations are detailed and go beyond the physical level of yoga. His cheerful and kind teaching style is also very captivating.”
5.0
A deeper understanding after 10 years of teaching
“Very well-presented instruction from a warm, genuine, and knowledgeable teacher. I have been teaching yoga for 10 years and have found a deeper understanding and new insights into yoga practice through these presentations. Namaste, and many thanks to you, Deep Kumar.”
5.0
Perfect for beginners and safe practice
“Absolutely superb course. Perfect if you are just starting out or want to understand how to protect your joints and back. Very engaging, and it doesn't move through things too quickly, so you have time to process and practice. Loved it!”
4.5
I could see exactly where I was going wrong
“My alignment is better than before, and I can feel the difference in my body too. The stretches feel good. I could see exactly where I was going wrong and have now corrected my postures. Thanks so much for putting this course together.”
5.0
New alignment details in every pose
“Even though I have practiced Sun Salutations for years, I learned new details about alignment in every pose. Deep gives so many helpful alignment cues. It is a simple yet very powerful practice. I absolutely loved this course and highly recommend it.”
4.5
Now I understand how to practice without strain
“Before this course, practicing Surya Namaskaras used to cause pain in my lower back, so I would always stop. Now that I understand the practice better, I believe I'll be able to continue for a long time. Thank you so much for such wonderful help.”
5.0
So complete, I've already watched it twice
“Deep explains each movement in great detail. I've already watched the course twice, but I'll watch it again because it is so complete. It is designed to make sure you practice and/or teach in a safe way. Excellent!”
5.0
Down-to-earth, refreshing, and professional
“Teacher Deep Kumar's down-to-earth teaching method is very refreshing and professional. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to gain in-depth knowledge of Sun Salutations.”
5.0
Already breathing more smoothly
“After the first lesson, I was filled with appreciation for the clarity and eloquence of the instruction for Tadasana and Namaskar. Thank you. I'm already breathing more smoothly.”
5.0
I always find helpful tips in Deep's courses
“An awesome explanation of the Sun Salutation, taught step by step. I have been practicing yoga for quite a while, but I always find helpful new tips in Deep's courses. Thank you, Deep and Patrick!”
4.5
Now I understand how to practice without strain
“Before this course, practicing Surya Namaskaras used to cause pain in my lower back, so I would always stop. Now that I understand the practice better, I believe I'll be able to continue for a long time. Thank you so much for such wonderful help.”
5.0
So complete, I've already watched it twice
“Deep explains each movement in great detail. I've already watched the course twice, but I'll watch it again because it is so complete. It is designed to make sure you practice and/or teach in a safe way. Excellent!”
5.0
Down-to-earth, refreshing, and professional
“Teacher Deep Kumar's down-to-earth teaching method is very refreshing and professional. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to gain in-depth knowledge of Sun Salutations.”
5.0
Already breathing more smoothly
“After the first lesson, I was filled with appreciation for the clarity and eloquence of the instruction for Tadasana and Namaskar. Thank you. I'm already breathing more smoothly.”
5.0
I always find helpful tips in Deep's courses
“An awesome explanation of the Sun Salutation, taught step by step. I have been practicing yoga for quite a while, but I always find helpful new tips in Deep's courses. Thank you, Deep and Patrick!”
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One sequence. A lifetime of practice.
Your Investment
What you are investing in is not sixteen videos. It is a sequence you will keep practising for the rest of your life, taught precisely enough that every round from here forward gives back more than it asks.
- All 16 video lessons with Deep Kumar
- Alignment for every position in the classical sequence
- Two complete guided rounds
- The full breath pattern for the sequence
- Prop, modification, and joint safety guidance
- Lifetime course access
- Eligibility for a 20-hour YACEP certificate after course completion and 20 hours of practice
- 14-day refund window
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Certification and accreditation
Does This Course Include a YACEP Certificate?
Yes. After completing all 16 lessons and 20 hours of personal practice, you can receive a 20-hour continuing education certificate issued through Yoga New Vision’s Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP) offering.
When you are ready for more
Continue Your Study with Yoga New Vision
This course can stand alone as a focused sun salutation study, or become a thoughtful first step before a longer training.
01 Complete foundation
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Bali
For those ready to study practice, philosophy, anatomy, teaching, and Yoga Alliance certification.
02 Advanced path
300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training
For certified teachers ready to deepen their understanding and expand their teaching.
03 Therapeutic study
50-Hour Yoga Therapy Training
For practitioners and teachers seeking a more clinically informed way to adapt yoga.
Clarity before you begin
Frequently Asked Questions
The course is described with its scope and limitations in full, because clear expectations are part of a learning space built on trust.
The Course and Its Purpose
Master the Alignments of Classical Sun Salutation is a self-paced online sun salutation course taught by Deep Kumar. Across 16 lessons it covers the alignment of every position in the classical Surya Namaskar sequence, the transitions between them, breath coordination, joint safety, and the meaning each position has carried in the yogic tradition.
No. The course is designed for both yoga practitioners and teachers. Practitioners can use it to understand what their most repeated sequence is doing in their body, while existing teachers can refine the cues they give in almost every class. It does not qualify a new teacher or replace a complete yoga teacher-training program.
No. You do not need open hamstrings or a strong plank. The course begins with standing alignment and includes bent-knee folds, lifted heels, knees-down variations, and block support throughout. The goal is to understand your own structure and breath, not to force your body toward a standardised final shape.
The classical twelve-position Surya Namaskar. Deep teaches it with one considered variation: he uses plank as well as downward-facing dog, to build strength alongside spinal length. He explains his reasoning, and the alignment principles apply whichever version of the sequence you practise.
Studying and Access
The total video runtime is approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes across 16 lessons. Your actual learning time will be longer, because the course is designed to be practised, paused, and revisited. You may complete it intensively or spread it across several weeks or months.
The course is self-paced. There are no live sessions, cohort dates, or required attendance times. You can begin after enrollment and move through the lessons according to your own schedule.
You receive lifetime course access through your Yoga New Vision account. That matters here, because sun salutation is a sequence you will keep practising. When one position starts to feel unclear again, that lesson is still there.
A mat is enough to begin. A block is useful in several lessons, particularly for the inner-thigh and core work, and Deep also refers to belts, blankets, walls, and a stack of books as support. You can gather what you need lesson by lesson rather than all at once.
Safety, Certification, and Scope
Yes. After completing all 16 lessons and 20 hours of personal practice, you can receive a 20-hour continuing education certificate issued through Yoga New Vision's Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP) offering. For Registered Yoga Teachers, this learning can support Yoga Alliance continuing education requirements.
The video lessons are the teaching. The 20 hours are the practice you do with them, on your own mat, applying what each lesson covers. You keep your own record of that practice and confirm completion when you request the certificate. The exact request method will be published with the course.
No. The YACEP certificate recognises continuing education only. It is not an RYT 200, RYT 300, or RYT 500 teaching qualification and does not qualify a new teacher. It can sharpen how an existing teacher cues sun salutation. If you want to become a certified yoga teacher, explore Yoga New Vision's 200-hour teacher-training program.
No. Some lessons include thoughtful modifications and general safety guidance, but the course does not diagnose conditions, prescribe rehabilitation, or provide individual therapy. Seek qualified medical or therapeutic guidance for injuries, recent surgery, uncontrolled high blood pressure, or other conditions that make a position uncertain.
Often yes, and much of the course exists for this. Deep addresses the lower back in the backbend and the lunge, the knees in standing and in the fold, and the wrists in plank and downward-facing dog, with a specific adaptation for each. If a joint is injured or under medical care, check with your practitioner first.
Come out of the position and reassess. Deep distinguishes muscular work from pressure inside a joint and repeatedly uses the breath as feedback. Sharp pain, joint pressure, numbness, dizziness, or unusual symptoms are reasons to stop and seek appropriate professional guidance rather than push further.
Investment and Enrollment
The introductory investment is $49 USD through 15 October. The standard investment becomes $98 USD from that date. Both rates include the same 16 lessons and lifetime access.
Yes. A 14-day refund window applies from enrollment, subject to the final published terms. Those terms explain the request method and any eligibility conditions.
You can begin at any time after completing enrollment and receiving access to the course platform. There is no fixed cohort or start date.
A practice you already have
Step Forward Towards You
You already know this sequence. The invitation is to slow it down until you can feel what it has been doing all along.
Sun salutation was never a warm up. It is a bow. One round, given your full attention, is enough.
