ASSISTING WORKSHOP
In this 2 day Assisting clinic you will dive deep into learning how to assist your students. Assisting is an art and it takes time and practice to master it. It is a great opportunity to observe how the students learn, to study the teacher you are working with and to learn from their successes and errors. Assisting is not correcting the pose or intervening. We are helping the student’s structure return to its natural mobility and freedom.
You will learn:
-How to assess what the student needs, prioritizing
-How to perceive energy and move energy
-How to touch the student with care, steadiness and compassion
-How to support the student in advanced asanas
-How to give verbal corrections and give feedback
-How to honor the student’s needs and desires
-How to communicate clearly where you assist
This is a 2 day intensive training. We will start every morning with a 3h Forrest Yoga Intensive focused on the poses we will work in the afternoon. Some assists will be practiced during the intensive.
There will be a 1h break.
The assisting clinic will be 3, 5 hours. We will experientially explore poses and assists. There will be enough time for you to practice all the assists and receive feedback.
You will get a manual with assists’ descriptions.
*The Forrest Yoga Intensives are open to all students and practitioners.
Time & Duration:
10:00-13:00 Forrest Yoga Intensive
14:00-17:30 Assisting Clinic
Day 1: Hips, twists and forward bends
Day 2: Inversions, hips and arm balances
Poses that will be covered:
Day 1
1. Seated Sidebends
2. Bridge
3. Dolphin
4. Seated Twists
5. Twisting warrior
6. Half moon
7. Laying down spinal twist
8. Frog belly down
9. Dolphin on the wall
10. Downdog on the wall
11. Savasana
Day 2
1. Forearm balance and variations – on & off the wall
2. Handstand and variations – on & off the wall
3. Eka pada on the wall
4. Scissors
5. Twisting scissors
6. Flashing arrow
7. Handstand straddle to Tittibasana
8. Handstand to turn signal
9. Handstand to crow
10. Pigeon
11. Pike assists – both legs & straddle
Price:
Early bird price by 15/12 > 160€
Regular price > 200€
Intensive Price > members of Nama Yoga 35€, non-members 45€
The workshops will be held at Nama Yoga Studio.
About Victoria Kourkaki
Victoria Kourkaki is the facilitator of the workshop. She has been teaching Forrest Yoga since 2012 and she is a Forrest Yoga Guardian, the highest honor and level within the Forrest Yoga system. She is a 500h ERYT and a teacher trainer.
Victoria has gained full depth into the Forrest Yoga assists since she has been traveling and assisting her teacher and Creatrix of Forrest Yoga, Ana Forrest since 2016. Assisting is Victoria’s passion! Her hands are unique, warm and can move energy. You will learn how to touch wholeheartedly, how to respect the student and how to enjoy assisting!
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