Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 am ET – 4:00 pm ET
Instructor: Laurie
Location: Education Centre
For Yoga Teachers of ALL traditions!
Learn to assist safely, skilfully, and confidently
As a yoga teacher, you’ve learned verbal cues and have developed your own phrasing to guide students safely through a practice.
Verbal cueing and verbal assisting are mainstays of the yoga teaching experience; however, it is sometimes helpful to physically show yogis how to be more stable and easeful in their asanas. Confident touch will communicate to your students that you see them and that you are there to support them. It will also help them enrich their practice.
In this course, you will learn to augment your verbal cues with physical adjustments and assists intended to stabilize the yogi’s stance and possibly introduce ease and openness in their asanas. With a deepened understanding of anatomy and alignment, you will learn how to “read” bodies to provide relevant guidance, given a yogi’s physicality and their level of experience and understand your biomechanics to safely assist students.
Program Outline
After a few years of virtual/no-contact teaching, the time has come to re-learn how to adjust and assist our yoga students. Your confident, purposeful touch will help your students open to their unique potential.
Learning Objectives:
- Keeping yourself safe, and understanding the biomechanics of the teacher’s body and the student’s
- The difference between an adjustment and an assist
- Types of yoga assists: Directional – Stabilizing – Deepening – Energetic
- Ethical touch: how to use your hands – how to be professional, neutral and intentional
- Alignment vs respecting each student’s unique physiology: it is very important to be able to recognize whether offering an adjustment to one of your students is absolutely necessary
- Using your breath in and as an assist
- Asking for feedback, and being okay if it doesn’t work
- Recognizing resistance in your students
Hands-on assists, when done with care and consent, can be a valuable tool for yoga teachers. By respecting boundaries, using appropriate techniques, and prioritizing student comfort, you can create a safe and supportive class environment for both student and teacher.
Dates and Times
Saturday, October 31, 2026, and Sunday, November 1, 2026:
- Saturday: 10 am ET – 4 pm ET
- Sunday: 10 am ET – 4 pm ET
Breaks will be provided.
Cost
SAVE $30.00 by registering on or before September 15, 2026, for $495.00 per person.
$525.00 per person thereafter.
Fee includes the training, manual and certificate.
If you live away from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and would like printed training materials to be sent to you, please ensure you sign up at least 10 days before the course start date in order for us to ship the materials to you. Otherwise e-documents will be provided, where possible.
Note
This course is open to 200-hour trained yoga teachers of all disciplines.
For 200 hour certified Yoga Teachers this course provides CEUs with Yoga Alliance. This course is also part of our Yoga Alliance 300 Hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training.
300 Hour Elective Module: 10 Hours