ASSISTING - PRECISION & COMPASSION - STANDING POSES

Assisting your students is one of the benefits of being in a live class. Often a compassionate and skillful assist can help a student immediately understand something that might take a long time to learn on their own. However, an aggressive assist can be harmful to a student.  This course will help you help your students understand postures better through manual adjustments while honoring where they are.  Topics will include:

• Asking permission

• Students who have experienced trauma

• Verbal versus manual cues

• The difference between adjusting and assisting

• Understanding alignment

• The precision of touch

  • Approach

  • Direction

  • Duration

  • Releasing

• Foundation and stability

  • Where to stand and where not to stand

• The importance of breath

• Neutral energy

• The use of props