A New Year's Practice: We're Not Getting Out of This Alive!

WedNESDAY, January 01, 2025.

2:00 - 4:00 PM

at Mission E1

What's the problem? This won't last. Nothing ever does.

Times are rough and everything feels out of control, a Yoga practice can teach us there is much we can learn to control.

Our breath, our bodies, our minds.

We are responsible for a lot! In spite of this, all that we build, that we cultivate, that we cling to. Ultimately we'll have to let go. There's no other choice.

Begin the year with a celebration. A fun, highly charged practice. Exercising force of will and surrender in equal measure. A practice to cultivate compassion, gratitude and an inner strength that we can carry with us off the mat and into this impermanent world.

A practice to remind us that what we do is significant, that we are significant and the effect we have on the reality we find ourselves in matters.

No fear. As we hurtle through space on this rock at thousands of miles per hour. No one is in charge, no one knows where we're going. Free yourself from fear and embrace the unknown.

What a ride.

Everyone, no matter where you are in your practice, is welcome!

We are tactile creatures. A lack of touch over the past two years of isolation and repeated lockdowns has had a profound effect.

Touch is a powerful tool. A mindful adjustment, or the right assist, can deeply transform the experience, and the understanding, of a Yoga posture for the practitioner.

We will follow the bio-mechanical and energetic aspects of the body in both static postures and dynamic transitions from posture to posture. This course is designed to allow you to safely, mindfully and confidently help your students to move deeper in their practice with the right kind of adjustments in the right situations.

This course is designed for teachers, but is suitable for regular practitioners who wish to understand and evolve their ability to help others in their practice through touch.

Programme:

Sessions will involve theory, demonstration, discussions and plenty of practice.

Overview of course content:

• Fundamentals

• The nature of Touch: Qualities, Sensitivity, Techniques

• Ethics: Consent, developing the teacher-student relationship

• When and why to adjust or assist

• Understanding anatomy and alignment

• Verbal adjustments

• Physical and energetic mechanics of adjustments

• Use of props / the teacher as a prop

• Adjusting yourself

• Adjustments for beginners

• Adjusting the individual - special cases, conditions and injuries

• Adjusting and assisting dynamically

• Adjusting with the breath

• Protecting yourself when adjusting

Within the structure of the programme we will break down and look at the following groups of postures and associated adjustments:

• Standing Poses

• Balances

• Twists

• Forward bends

• Back bends

• Inversions

• Moving dynamically in Surya-Namaskara

• Savasana and relaxation

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