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Adjusting, Assisting and Partner Yoga
November 21, 2015 @ 8:00 am - November 22, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
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This post-graduate yoga continuing education program is focused on alignment, touch, and developing awareness in practice. It is our aim in this program that you not only learn a wide variety of hands-on techniques, but also learn how to create and customize your hands-on techniques to best meet the needs of your students in both group and private yoga sessions.
6 Areas of Study:
1) Exploring Alignment – Seeing into the Essence
2) Non-Contact Adjusting – Refining Your Cuing
3) Influential Contact – Cultivating Feel, Awareness, Responsiveness
4) Hands-On Adjustments – Architectural Adjusting
5) Assisting Yoga Postures – Deepening and Developing
6) Partner Yoga – The Yoga of Relationship
Aims and Outcomes
- Develop and enhance your awareness of alignment
- Practice ‘seeing’ into each posture and each individual
- Cultivate and refine cuing for the subtle and gross alignment of each posture
- Learn and practice simple touch to encourage awareness and activation
- Practice hands on adjustments that will enhance alignment, promote safety, and support the flow of prana
- Practice assists that will deepen and challenge the experience of the pose
- Partner Yoga techniques that enhance communication, give you support as you explore more advanced techniques, and bring a playful element into your practice.