This training was designed by me, Sandrine, in 2015 and has been updated since then through my years of practice, teaching, and learning.

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Deepening and refining one’s practice by playing the edges of effort and ease, exploring balance between surrender and control, and opening to self-understanding and self-transformation.

Receiving assistance in a yoga posture can be a wonderful experience. Assistance is often linked to a great massage!

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This course has been designed so that you can help your yoga students (and yourself!) go beyond

their body's limits, and their fears, leading them to explore and feel their body like never before.

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When guiding your students on a physical (and mental) journey, it is important for them to be safe and confident, and for that, you need to acquire the necessary tools to do this like the professional you are.

 

Training content:

• Breath and movement - Bandhas and Ujjayi breathing

• The art of adjusting and assisting:

  • Difference between adjusting and assisting

  • What posture for the teacher?

  • Amount of pressure

  • Working with and against gravity

  • Deepening into a posture

  • Coming in and out of the posture with confidence and mindfulness

  • Use of props and walls for adjustments and asana modifications

• Anatomy of Yoga:

  • Skeletal and Muscular System

  • Tension and Compression Concept: your body your yoga - body's limits and restrictions

  • Postural alignment - How to make a good adjustment?

• Thai Yoga Massage: seated, backends, and supine sequences

• Partner Yoga with Thai Massage Sequence - ​Experience the feeling of both giving and receiving a    Thai Yoga Therapeutic Massage!

• Energy Healing:

  • Scientific facts about energy, and overview of 3 chakras: hip, heart, and throat chakra.

  • ​Heart and hip openers - Emotion and energy flow release

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​​We will adjust and assist postures from different categories (standing, seated, twists, backbends).​

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TRULY THERAPEUTIC!!!​

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The flow of the course

 Friday - 9 am - 6 pm

• Presentation of the course

• Morning practice – Flow Yoga/Yang practice

• Morning break – 11 – 11:15 am

• Asanas - Sthira & Shuka - Linking breath & movement - Ujjayi & the 3 bandhas

• Alignment & movement: safe practice – how to flow & be aligned at the same time

• We are made to move - tips section

• Lunch break - 1:30 – 2:30 pm

• The art of adjusting & assisting

• Adjusting and Assisting Seated Asanas - Student’s practice

• Partner Yoga with seated asanas + Thai Massage applied

• Yin practice - Closing circle– gratitude – Yin reflection time

 

Saturday - 9 am - 6 pm

• Morning practice – Flow Yoga/Yang practice

• Morning break – 10:45 – 11 am

• Anatomy for yoga

• Compression & tension principle

• 8 major joints + ROM – compare each other ROM

• Your body, your yoga: different body shapes & body structures

• Lunch break - 1:30 – 2:30 pm

• Energy healing: some scientific facts about energy, and overview of 3 chakras: hip, heart, and throat chakra

• Adjusting and Assisting Standing Asanas - Student’s practice

• Yin practice - Closing circle– gratitude – Yin reflection time

 

Sunday - 9 am - 6 pm

• Morning practice – Flow Yoga/Yang practice

• Morning break – 10:45 – 11 am

• Adjusting and Assisting Twisted and Reclining Asanas

• Student’s practice

• Reclining Thai massage sequence

• Lunch break - 1:30 – 2:30 pm

• Adjusting and Assisting backbend series - Student’s practice

• Backbend Thai massage sequence

• Reflection time - Closure ceremony + certificates

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