Empowering, consensual, and compassionate support is a must-have skill set for any yoga teacher—especially when it comes to leading private yoga classes or group classes. By skillfully offering hands-on assists and introducing the right props at the right moment, you’ll help students access greater strength, stability, and ease, while reducing pain and discomfort in their practice. When students feel fully supported, they develop the awareness, engagement, and confidence they need to truly make the practice their own.
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This in-depth, two-day training will guide you in weaving hands-on assists and prop usage into your teaching toolkit with clarity, care, and mindfulness. You’ll hone your ability to offer respectful touch, troubleshoot common misalignments, and think critically on your feet—key skills for empowering students, building trust and meeting diverse needs of a mixed level class room.
We’ll also emphasize an anatomy-informed approach to alignment (i.e. we don't all need to nor can we look the same!) , consent, non-violent communication, and an understanding of the power dynamics inherent in the teacher–student relationship. By integrating these vital techniques, your teaching will rise from “good” to “great,” ensuring that every student feels held, heard, respected and completely at home on the mat and with you as their guide.
This is the level of service that leads to sold-out yoga classes, workshops, retreats and a booked-out calendar of private students!
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Content will be delivered in a laboratory-style environment where participants will be encouraged to troubleshoot common alignment challenges, collaborate to problem-solve various in-class scenarios and help students of diverse needs achieve similar benefits in common yoga postures.
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You'll also learn how props can also be used creatively in ways to make yoga asanas more challenging and to generate more muscular engagement. You'll get plenty of inspiration for designing yoga classes that students are excited to come back to because the learning you create is so fun and engaging!
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We’ll be covering a wide range of asanas and styles of practice from intro-level hatha poses to intermediate/advanced asanas (e.g. Inversions and Arm Balances) and the ins-and-outs of assisting dynamically moving Sun Salutations. Both training days will close with two hours of content on hands-on assists and props for Yin/Restorative yoga where you’ll get to give and receive deeply soothing, restful assists.
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Join us to deepen your practice, connect with fellow teachers, and gain game-changing and career-building tools that will nurture your students’ growth for years to come!
