Schedule

2025 Dates Coming Soon

Typical Schedule Fri 6-9pm | Sat 11am-7:00 PM | Sun Apr 28 10AM – 5:30 PM 

18 Contact Hours

Tuition

$300

About this Module:

Join Devon and friends for a weekend focused on the art of hands on assists in the flow of your class. All yoga teachers are welcome to join as a way to refresh or inspire their hands on assisting skills. We will review basic techniques and develop our skills together to assist simple and advanced asanas.

This program is specially designed to enhance your teaching skills and teach you how to provide effective hands-on assists and embodied cues that respect the safety and anatomy of your students. 

• Points of Focus
  • Observing your students in energetic alignment + determining when they will benefit from an assist
  • Assisting ethics and consent, power dynamics – how to care for yourself + your energy body when assisting
  • Provide hands-on assists or enhancements that support your students’ practice without compromising your own safety and comfort.
  • Assists for special populations and special considerations when assisting.
  • Safe assisting body mechanics
  • Cultivating a dynamic + responsive quality in your hands in every day life that will allow you to provide better hands-on assists
  • Observation, effective teaching cues, and manual movement to give effective hands-on enhancements
  • Techniques for finding the right balance in your touch for appropriate assists.
  • An exploration of the art of hands-on enhancements, which requires an integration of observation, teaching cues, and manual movement to be effective
  • Respecting the body as a sacred vessel and an extension of ourSelves and honoring our students
  • Serving the flow of our students’ prana