Skilful Touch - The Art of Hand-On Adjustments
4-Hour Workshop for Yoga Teachers | with Julie Gargano & Yoga Australia
This workshop will equip you with practical tools and deeper insight to support your students with greater skill, clarity, confidence, and care.
evelop the confidence, sensitivity and practical skills to offer safe, effective, and professional hands-on assists in your yoga classes. This immersive 4-hour intensive is designed for yoga teachers and teachers-in-training who wish to deepen their understanding of physical adjustments and learn how to support students with greater precision, awareness, and care.
Through demonstration, partner work, and guided practice, you will learn how to assess alignment, recognise individual needs, and apply assists that enhance stability, mobility, ease, and embodiment within a pose. Emphasis will be placed on adapting adjustments to suit different bodies, abilities, and levels of experience, while maintaining clear communication, consent, and professional boundaries.
This highly practical workshop will provide you with a valuable toolbox of hands-on techniques for a wide range of common postures, helping you refine your teaching skills and develop greater confidence, presence, and sensitivity in working with students. Whether you are currently teaching or completing your training, you will leave with practical tools and hands-on experience to support your students with greater skill, confidence, and nurture.
Topics Include:
Principles of safe and effective hands-on assists
Consent, communication, and professional boundaries
When to use verbal cues versus physical adjustments
Assists for standing, seated, balancing, twisting, backbending, and restorative postures
Understanding alignment and functional movement within asana
Reading bodies and adapting assists for individual students
Creating stability, support, and ease through touch
Developing confidence, clarity, and presence in your teaching
Developing confidence, presence, and intuitive teaching skills
The energetics of touch and cultivating sensitivity through assisting
Using touch to enhance awareness, alignment, breath, and embodiment