This immersive Art of Assisting workshop is designed to equip yoga teachers and trainees with the skills to provide safe, confident, and transformative hands-on support.

What You Will Learn

• Foundations & Benefits: Explore the philosophy behind assisting, focusing on how touch can accelerate progress, enhance stability, and deepen a student’s connection to their body.

• Techniques & Refined Touch: Master different assist types—from directive alignment corrections to grounding releases—while refining your pressure and hand placement.

• Anatomy & Alignment: Deepen your understanding of biomechanics to ensure every assist prioritizes joint safety and honors unique skeletal structures.

• Breath & Energetics: Learn tools to assist the breath and shift the "prana" (energy) within a posture to invite relaxation or focus.

• Prop Integration: Discover how to use blocks, straps, and bolsters as extensions of your own hands to provide instant support.

• The Professional Assistant: Understand the specific role of an assistant in a group setting, including how to move through a room without disruption.

• Ethics, Boundaries & Consent: Navigate the complexities of physical touch, learning how to read the room and establish clear, unambiguous consent with every student.