The best way to upskill your yoga teaching career
Two-day Adjustments and Assisting course for Yoga teachers: 20 CPD Hours
Next course Saturday & Sunday 26th & 27th October 2024
9.30 am to 5.00 pm // Victoria, SW1
Yoga Adjustments & Hands-on Assists Workshop
Yoga Teachers! Are you ready to build your dedicated yoga community?
Create long lasting student relationships?
If YES - learning how to give yoga adjustments & assists confidently will help you to create the yoga classes of your dreams - dedicated students who show up every week and a feeling of really inciting change and growth amongst your very own yoga community!
Level Up! Are you ready to take the next step in advancing your skill set as a yoga teacher?
Learn from two senior Yoga Teachers
Hi we’re Ashley and Lauren, as experienced yoga teachers we understand the impact effective, well-timed hands-on assists can have on helping practitioners understand asana and connect with their bodies.
We also remember how overwhelming and scary it can feel to think about offering adjustments when you first start teaching.
That’s why we’ve this workshop for yoga teachers and practitioners - so that you can learn how and when to adjust asana confidently, safely and effectively.
Enhance your offerings to your students
Receiving an effective adjustment can enhance the whole experience of a class for your practitioners - through adjusting you’ll help students understand their body, their postural & breath direction and you’ll transmit knowledge through well-guided assistance.
Proficient adjustments can help practitioners deepen their practice, set good alignment and understand energetic movement.
This is essential as you uplevel to become a skilled yoga teacher. You’ll have more to offer in your classes and you'll develop deeper and longer-lasting relationships with your students.
Practice with a small group size & receive direct feedback
We’ll be showing you how to adjust asanas from the Ashtanga, Rocket and Vinyasa traditions. There’ll be some partner work involved as you try adjustments out on each other, and this will provide you with an opportunity to give and receive constructive feedback
Our small group size will also ensure you get also direct feedback and support from two Senior yoga teachers (us) who have lots of experience adjusting asana and working with a wide range of bodies.
Course Testimonials
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Ashley and Lauren were super nice, very knowledgeable and willing to share the info with us in the best way possible. I learned a lot not only for adjusting others, but also about my own practice. I will definitely look out for the next course, if there will be one. :)
Previous Course attendee
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This was a very informative course and great to have the difference experiences Lauren and Ashley bring. Lauren's knowledge of trauma sensitive yoga, extensive adjustment practice during mysore, and Ashley's experience of teaching many group classes across a range of modalities meant they brought a lot of really useful experience to the training. Whether you're teaching advanced ashtanga/rocket practices or are really new to adjustments and looking to build up your confidence, I think you would gain a lot from this training. I didn't know that much about Lauren and Ashley prior to the training but I'm looking forward to keeping in touch with them and learning more from them in future. They're two very kind, approachable and super knowledgable yogis. Thank you!
Josie, London
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Being an absolute beginner in adjustments, I was quite nervous whether I would understand the explanations / find the content super-hard to grasp, but Lauren and Ashley made the whole experience massively enjoyable and explained every step so clearly that I got all the basic knowledge I wanted - and much more! This course has really enhanced my confidence and understanding of adjustments and I can definitely recommend it to teachers and practitioners alike. Not to mention the atmosphere was really welcoming and I had a very good time 🙂
October 2023 Attendee
Who’s this workshop for?yoga adjustments workshop
This 2 day Adjustments Course is for Yoga Teachers who are interested in learning more about adjusting asana (yoga postures) safely and effectively. The course is for yoga teachers who are completely new to adjusting and those who need a refresh on principles of touch and how to support all students who come to class
Day 1 will focus on the principles of adjusting, how to adjust and learning standing posture adjustments - to set you up for starting to give adjustments if you’re new to them
Day 2 will focus on adjusting different body types, learning how to adjust seated postures, twists, backbends and some arm balances and inversions.
You can just partake in both days (recommended) or just one Day (you can only take Day 2 on its own if you have completed a course on Adjusting with us prior)
Want to learn more about our yoga teacher mentoring services? Click here.
What you’ll learn Yoga adjustments
The fundamentals of adjusting asana
When to adjust and when not to adjust
Ethics and consent around adjusting and the student/teacher relationship
Different types of adjusting including verbal and hands-on
Working with different body types, including hypermobility
Supporting pregnant students
How to adjust fundamental asanas from Ashtanga, Rocket and Vinyasa
How to help all levels of practitioners from beginners to advanced
Staying safe when adjusting
Over the 2 days we’ll be looking at the following groups of asanas:
Day 1: Standing asanas - everything from Triangle, Revolved Triangle, Side Angle and Revolved Side Angle Pose, to Prasaritas, standing balance postures like Half Moon & Standing Spilts!
Day 2: Seated Postures, Back Bends Arm Balances & Inversions - everything from Forward Folds, Twists, Butterfly Pose, Wheel, Bridge, Drop Backs, Camel, Bakasana (Crow), Koundinyasana, Headstand, Forearm Stand and Handstand!
Come with questions on specifics too! We send out a pre-course questionnaire to course participants to ask what you want to learn.
Course Testimonials
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“Lauren and Ashely provided a great training full of support. I learnt so much and left feeling full of confidence with more knowledge and important information.”
Previous Course attendee
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“I was really nervous before this course and a little worried that I would be out of my depth as I am not teaching regularly, but on meeting Ashley and Lauren and the others in my group I immediately felt at ease. It was a small group which I liked, and prior to coming we had been given a short questionnaire to ask what we would like to practice etc. I felt this made the course have almost a personal bespoke feel to it, and anything we had individually mentioned was definitely covered. Ashley and Lauren were both so lovely and between them they had so much experience to share each bringing something different too. I thought they worked so well together, and look forward to doing something again with them in the future. Thank-you both”
Previous Course Attendee
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“Ashley and Lauren were super nice, very knowledgeable and willing to share the info with us in the best way possible. I learned a lot not only for adjusting others, but also about my own practice. I will definitely look out for the next course, if there will be one. :)”
Previous Course Attendee
You’ll leave this workshop with the practical skills to confidently adjust your favourite asanas
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You’ll be able to use what you’ve learned so you can start offering adjustments and hands-on assistance in your classes straight away!
About Us
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Ashley Ahrens
Ashley has been practicing yoga for 15 years and teaching for over a decade and she’s now a Senior Yoga Teacher. She’s been privileged to practice with guidance from many amazing teachers over the years, and with regard to learning adjustments, she credits her wonderful Ashtanga Mysore teachers and her main teacher Rameen Peyrow (who practiced at the Ashtanga Mysore Institute for many years)
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Lauren Munday
Lauren has more than 14 years of experience teaching and adjusting asana in the Mysore room. She’s worked for many years at Astanga Yoga London and assisted Sharath Jois at his Shala in Mysore. Lauren is also a Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) and therefore brings a trauma-informed approach to consent and adjusting asana.