Yoga Assists & Conscious Hands-On Adjustments On-Line CE & Yoga Teacher Training

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ASSIST WITH SKILL, SAFETY & CONFIDENCE

Continuing Education & Certification

Upon full completion of this program, you will receive 15 Hours Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits.

Make a powerful impact in your classes and offer teachings to guide your students into greater stability and ease on their asana for a lifetime of healthy yoga.

Empower

Develop the art of using a verbal assist combined with a physical adjustment to impact the learning and retention of your students. This course is designed to empower your teaching and empower your students.

Teach with Confidence

Develop potent teaching skills that can help your students experience freedom, stability, and strength in their poses. Learn modifications for hands-on adjustments that apply to different students' levels of experience as well as different body types.

Deepen your Knowledge

Deepen your knowledge of alignment and anatomy to assist with safety and integrity and touch with confidence while understanding how to address common postural habits and misalignments in yoga poses. And teach your students how to retrain movements for long-term joint health.

Start Today

Get started today, its easy! You will receive all of the videos and content to move through the program at your own pace. We have a wonderful course management platform for you to use. We are here to answer your questions via email and would happily set up a time to chat on the phone if questions arise. Complete the program at your own pace and receive your 15 hours of CE when you are done. You will find the content lively, engaging and directly applicable to your own personal practice and teaching.

""I loved the demonstration and hands-on interaction and the openness of the instructors to answer our questions and cater to real life examples. As a teacher, this program gave me the language and physical tools to more confidently assist my students in adjustments and feel confident in my instruction. I found the concept of always adjusting from the ground up essential and loved the reminders to assist firmly, using the palms with confidence.""

- Sarah

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Studio Ready

Content will be delivered to you in clear, concise and practical lessons. The course will include video, slides, lectures, Q&A, discussion and homework actionable items for the direct application of the techniques into your group classes.

Learn at Your Own Pace

This course is self-paced so you can take as long as you like to view and practice the material. To complete the full curriculum, content and assignments expect to invest approximately 15 hours of your time, most students complete the program in 4-6 weeks. If you take longer to complete the certification aspects of this program, that's just fine. Once complete you will get 15 CEs with Yoga Alliance.

Lifetime Access

You will have a lifetime of access to the material so you can re-learn and deepen your understanding and application of the principles again and again.

What's Included

98 videos and over 10 hours of recorded content
15 Yoga Alliance Continuing Education credits upon completion of the course
Exploration of 45 different asana and over 80 hands-on adjustments
Over 10 hours of recorded content
Exceptional verbal cues to accompany each physical adjustments
A safety conscious, anatomical and bio-mechanically informed perspective
Cautions and benefits associated with certain adjustments
Application to a variety of body types
Handouts for reminders and taking notes
Access to our members only Facebook group page for Q&A and informed discussions
Lifetime Access

Can you really learn assists online?

Yes, absolutely. The course is designed for you to use as a learning tool. In each module we will discuss one alignment concept and offer assists and adjustments that help your students understand how to put this alignment into their poses. Each assist comes with detailed instructions and short 1-5 minute videos that you can watch again and again until you understand how to apply the technique. You will find a friend, a willing student or another yoga teacher to practice on. We will discuss how to be receptive and solicit feedback from your student to ensure that the assistance you offer brings them into a place of greater ease. Their feedback will be essential in helping you grow as a teacher.

Meet Your Instructors

Liz Heffernan

Liz Heffernan, E-RYT 500, is a recognized international yoga teacher with over two decades of personal practice and 25 years of teaching. She trained extensively in the Hatha systems of Kripalu, Ashtanga and Anusara and works as an Integrative Yoga Therapist.

Peggy Profant

Peggy Profant, E-RYT 500, and Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher, is a playful, passionate and adventurous spirit who is on a lifelong path of Yoga. She first discovered Kripalu yoga as a teenager and changed the course of her life in 1980.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the benefits of online teacher training courses?

Did you know that in in-person yoga trainings with demonstrations, lectures, and hands-on group activity, it is likely that you will retain approximately 30% of the material being offered? Retention rates of what we learn increases substantially when we continually review what we learn. Yoga teachers, these online courses have been designed with you in mind. This curriculum is in place to augment your yoga teacher training and bring home the important concepts so you remember, refresh and apply the principles directly into the classes you are currently teaching. Online trainings provide an unparalleled forum for you to review the material again and again until it is fully digested. Our lively group online community keeps the program interesting. With unlimited opportunity to ask questions you are sure to come away a stronger more knowledgeable yoga teacher. Our Q & A forum helps you with areas that need refinement. When you put into practice what you are learning your information retention increase to 75%. Online programs also save time and travel costs. With the videos and lessons to review for a lifetime, it is an effective investment in your development as a yoga teacher.

Do I have to be teaching yoga currently to take this class?

No, you will still benefit greatly with the study of asana, alignment and modification. And, who knows the course may just re-inspire you to begin teaching again. If you are currently teaching yoga, you will be able to apply the lessons each week with focused direction and guidance to your classes.

I am not a yoga teacher, can I still take this course?

How much time is required per week to complete the course?

The course is structured so you may move through the material and assignments at your own pace. The course provides approximately 15 hours of curriculum and assignments.

15 Hours of Study

Lifetime Access- Complete at Your Own Pace

Section One: Foundation And Working With Hyper Mobile Bodies

• Course Overview
• Introduction to the Program
• The Art of Assisting and Adjusting. Student Self-Applied Assists, Verbal Assists and Teacher Hands On Adjustments. Types of Adjustments. Safety and Guidelines for Practice.
• Establishing our Foundation, Feet and Hands
• Importance of Muscle Integrity and creating safety in the hyper mobile bodies
• Stability and Grounding Assists (16:37)
• Assisting Savasana (59:02)
• In section one we explore: Urdhva Hastasana, Virabhadrasana One, Utthita Parsvakonasana, Janu Sirsasana, Wall Cobra, Natarajasana Prep, Setu Bandasana, Low lunge, Ustrasana, Forearm Stand, Ardha Matsendrasana, Bhujanasana, Step by step therapeutic adjustment instructions, benefits and cautions of each assist including how to keep your body safe

Section Two: Leg Rotations, Aligning the Lumbar Spine and Assisting the Hypo Mobile Body

• Pelvic Stability- Finding Balance through Internal and External Rotations of the Legs
• Assisting and Adjusting the Hypo-Mobile Body
• Balancing the rotations of the Legs in Asymmetrical Poses
• Rotations of the Legs in Backbends
• Stabilizing the Pelvis in Twists
• In section two we will explore: Adho Mukha Svanasana, Virabhadrasana One, Virabhadrasana Two, Eka Pada Raja Kapotasana, Uttanasana, Prasarita Padotanasana, Plank, Baddha Konasana, Setu Bandasana, Bhujangasana, Handstand. Step by step therapeutic adjustment instructions, benefits and cautions of each assist including how to keep your body safe

Section Three: Upper Body

• Core Stabilization – Focus on the Gears of the Pelvis and Ribs
• Shoulder Opening: Focus on the Gear of the Shoulder
• Aligning the Head: Dialog between the Head and the Heart
• Integration and Rotations of the Humerus (upper arm bone) at the Glenohumeral Joint (Shoulder)
• Safety for the Rotator Cuff
• Side Waist Lengthening & Rotations
• Culminating Conversations - What Adjustments Would You Offer?
• In this section you will explore: Urdhva Hastasana, Virabhadrasana One, Utthita Parsvakonasana, Janu Sirsasana, Wall Cobra, Natarajasana Prep, Setu Bandasana, Low lunge, Ustrasana, Forearm Stand, Ardha Matsendrasana, Bhujanasana, Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, Utthita Parsvakonasana, Table Twist, Adho Mukha Svanasana, Vasistasana, Trikonasana, Urdhva Danurasana. Step by step therapeutic adjustment instructions, benefits and cautions of each assist including how to keep your body safe

SIGN-UP TODAY FOR JUST $347

We are so certain that you will love this training that we are offering you a two-week risk-free guarantee. If you are not satisfied with the material after the first two weeks of the course, we will refund 100% of your money - just email us by 14 days after the start of the program and complete an exit interview so we can learn how to improve our educational programs for the future.