The Magic and Art of Yoga Assisting will teach you both why and how to apply effective hands-on assists. Gain confidence with more tools to help your students enhance and deepen their practice. In this seminar you will learn about the energetics of assisting, types of assisting, principles of assisting, and the mechanics of assisting. You will also learn how to assess an appropriate duration for your assistance. You will be given the opportunity to practice foundational hands-on adjustment concepts on common postures.
The goals of this Continuing Education Course is to provide you hands-on, exploratory learning so you can feel confident within your teaching to adapt hands-on assists to bodies of varying heights, degrees of flexibility, strength, and level of practice. When a teacher assists with sensitivity and awareness, responding to the receiver’s physical and metal states, the teacher and the receiver become one. There is no longer boundary between the asana and the assist. The is union. This is yoga.
The Magic & Art of Yoga Assisting Workshop Outline
Learning Energetics of Connection
Types of Assisting
Principles of Assisting
Mechanics of Assisting and using your body weight instead muscular effort
Becoming aware of your own bias, past experience, and ego
Being grounded with clear intention
The Art of Observing, Feeling and Sensing
Adapting to what you physically and intuitively see
Learning to step into and out of another person’s energy and practice
Make sure you have adequate stability and your partner is properly supported.
Playing with the balance between the push/pull
Learning to apply pressure in the correction direction
Learning to use the variety of tools that you have available: your body, student’s body, verbal cues, breathing, etc.
Applying the principles of grounding, lengthening, and breathing
Assess an Appropriate Duration for your Assistance
Assisting one intention at a time—don’t fuss or over-adjust
Postures covered in this course:
Sun Salutations // Learning to adjust during movement
Adho Muka Svanasana // Downward Facing Dog
Balasana // Child's Pose
Tadasana // Mountain
Uttanasana // Forward Fold
Ardha Uttansasana // Half Forward Fold
Plank
Chaturanga Dandasana // 4 Limbed Staff Pose
Bhujangasana // Cobra
Urdvha Muka Svanasana // Upward Facing Dog
Virabhadrasana 1/2/3 // Warrior 1/2/3
Parsvakonasana // Side Angle
Trikonasana //Triangle
Pasrvotanasana // Pyramid
Parivrtta Trikonasana // Revolved Triangle
Prasarita Padottanasana A/B/C/D // Wide Legged Forward Fold A/B/C/D
Utthitha Hasta Padangusthasana A/B/C //Extended Hand to Foot A/B/C
Garudasana // Eagle
Paschimottanasana // Seated Forward Fold
Supta Kapotasana // Reclined Pigeon
Supta Padangusthasana // Reclined Hand to Foot
Supta Matsyendrasana // Reclined Twist
Weekend Schedule
Saturday 8-5pm
Sunday 8-5pm
Lunch breaks given 12-1pm
CEC Breakout of Hours
Techniques, Training & Practice (TTP): 8 hours
Teaching Methodology (TM): 6 hours
Anatomy & Physiology (AP): 4 hours
Yoga Philosophy, Lifestyle & Ethics (YPLE): 3 hours
TOTAL HOURS: 21.00 See less
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