Hands on assists can help students understand the alignment of the pose for their own bodies. Learn how to discern what is needed to help them gain awareness, proper alignment and perhaps go deeper.
Whether you're a teacher looking to assist your students in the standing series or a student looking to understand how to do the poses correctly in your own body, this workshop will benefit you.
Hands On Adjustments with Clara Roberts-Oss
A Weekend Workshop for yoga teachers and keener students
Oct 25-27, 2024
Where: The Garden (868 E Hastings St), Vancouver, BC
Time: Friday 11am -5pm, Sat & Sun 9-5pm
$400 CND for all three days or $140 CND/day
We offer partial scholarships on this training.
Tax is not included
YA* credits: 17 hours
*Yoga Teachers receive a 10 hour Yoga Alliance CE (Continuing Education) certificate.
Friday
Adjustments 101 & The Standing Series
Saturday
Inversions & Backbends
Sunday
Review and Application
“As always, I come away with so much respect and love for Clara. I love Clara’s strong, real presence. She holds space for us to critically question what we believe and to back it up. I really love this because I want it in my training and teaching. I want to question things. It also keeps things interactive and engaging.”
Description of each day
DAY 1 - Adjustments 101 & The Standing Series
Creating a safe space for our students and ourselves is the most important task we have as yoga teachers in a class.
We’ll start the weekend discussing different methods for asking for consent, the difference between adjustments and enhancements, how to move around the room with confidence and different ways we can remain grounded as we teach.
Next we’ll go over poses in the Standing Series. We will cover the poses in the sun salutations as well as the standing series: triangle, side angle, warrior 1 &2, revolved chair, lunge and more.
DAY 2* - Inversions & Backbends
Inversions and backbends can be powerful poses to teach us about ourselves. This workshop will break down the fundamentals of these poses along with how to assist your students confidently as they explore these bigger postures. We’ll also go over the floor series, how to adjust during the cool down.
If you have requests for particular poses, please let me know on your registration form.
Day 3* - Review and Application
We’ll spend the day going over all the adjustments and refining how we approach and come out of each of the assists.
*Saturday & Sunday will start with a 2 hour yoga practice so you can experience the hands on assists and how to build towards peak poses in a live class.
“I really enjoyed the circle conversation after the break on Saturday, especially how you talked to us about difficult situations and how to come back to yourself during those challenging times. Taking our power back, the difference between leading and teaching. This talk was very beneficial for me. Very Inspiring.”
What You Will Learn:
Ways to receive permission to touch and get consent from students.
The difference between hands-on adjustments versus enhancements to the postures.
Assists to encourage alignment and awareness in the foundational standing and floor yoga poses.
The adjustments that elevate embodied understanding of advanced yoga asanas.
Hands-On Adjustments Training Manual by the Lila School of Vinyasa Yoga.
Languaging, cueing, modifications, integration of themes, and the why behind the poses that we do.
Daily Schedule
Friday
11-2pm Lecture
2-3pm Break
3-5pm Lecture
Saturday & Sunday
9-11 Yoga Practice
11-12:30 Break
12:30- 2:30 Lecture
2:30-3pm Break
3-5pm Lecture
“I walked away feeling more confident with several adjustment methods. I need more awareness and the ability to see my students and recognize where corrections/adjustments/direction could be offered.”
Props needed for this workshop:
1 Yoga Mat
2 Blocks
1 Blanket
1 Strap
Yoga Teachers
Receive 17 hours of YA (Yoga Alliance) CE (Continuing Education) credits upon completion of the weekend.
NOTE: You must attend the WHOLE workshop in order to receive credit.
How To Register
Fill out the registration FORM
For E-Transfer* - send to clararobertsoss@gmail.com WITH your name in the memo and HANDS ON
OR Credit Card -
For the Whole Weekend, for ONE DAY
Please Read our Cancellation Policy
If you cancel before July 25, you will be fully refunded.
If you cancel between July 26 & September 25, you will be refunded 50% of the tuition.
If you cancel after September 25, you will not be refunded any amount.
If you have any questions about the training,
please fill out the form below.
“Really inspiring and fun. I learned a lot from Clara and from other teachers. I learned so much about adjustment, about teaching in general, and about my own practice.”
“It was wonderful to work with Clara and be in a community with other seasoned and new teachers. It normalized my own apprehensions and inspired me to integrate some new techniques into my classes.”
“I loved the prep class on Saturday for heart openers & inversions - it really prepped the body for all we got into. I walked away with confidence, positioning, ethics/etiquette, and gauging pressure.”