Yoga Teachers can employ a variety of tools to communicate, including verbal cues, visual indication and touch. To know when to apply the right tool for who, and when, is advanced teaching technique.

In this third Academy you will explore the different assists that you can offer a student. You will explore how touch can be a powerful teaching tool by looking at a modern approach to physical adjusts; one which incorporates the issues of informed consent, somatic dominance, and tackling the question of “is it better to go deeper?”.

You will work on:

• the art of language and verbal cueing
• identifying and improving common mistakes made by Yoga Teachers
• specificity, inclusivity and “correct alignment”
• physical assists as well as energetic assists; guiding a student to explore their posture without using words or touch
• leverage and stabilizing assists
• “Informed Consent” in the Yoga Room