Weekend CPD Teacher training workshop Mastering the art of hands-on assists and adjustments – translating energy through touch with Brigitte Riley

At this weekend CPD teacher training workshop, you will learn hands-on techniques that sensitively cultivate, communicate and exchange energy to your students via touch. As yoga teachers we have a variety of tools available to guide our students; we can give clear verbal instructions, we can demonstrate, or we can subtly offer a hands-on approach which is referred to as an ‘assist’ or an ‘adjustment. Assists and Adjustments can be a much more powerful tool for yoga teachers when used with sensitivity – not force. Over the course of the weekend, you will develop a deeper understanding of the ‘energetics of touch and how to intuitively listen with the hands, thus using them as clear and compassionate communicators that will enhance and assist prana to move like water through the body. You will be encouraged to listen and tune in to your students, so that they too learn how to listen and communicate with their own body, thus evolving their practice in a more natural energetic way. As we delve deeper into the weekend, you will gain a greater perception of the difference between an energetic assist, a hands-on assist, and when you may need to perform a deeper hands-on adjustment. You can expect to gain the confidence and knowledge required that can retrain certain patterns of being within the human body thus facilitating the release of stagnant energy and optimizing complete vitality. Participants will be encouraged to inquire and to develop the ability to observe as well as perceive the language of energy and movement, which will help them to discern when assists or when adjustments might be most appropriate and beneficial. For example, we will look to see where free movement in an asana already exists and an adjustment may not be required, but instead the movement of energy via an assist, but also when there is disruption or a block in energetic flow or misalignment that may be better shifted through the an adjustment.

Brigitte Riley training programmes and courses are approved by Yoga Alliance Professionals Brigitte has been an established yoga teacher in Milton Keynes for 16 years and is a Registered Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals, which is the highest accolade in professional yoga teaching. She is known for her in-depth knowledge and anatomy expertise with regards to correct body alignment and yoga for therapeutic healing. Brigitte also has a wealth of skill and experience in teaching fluid creative vinyasa as well as many other different styles of yoga. Her philosophy on life, authenticity, natural warmth, and heartfelt approach radiates through into her teachings and students are inspired by her ‘keeping it real’ wisdom. Brigitte teaches weekly classes and private’s in Milton Keynes, as well as vocational yoga teacher training courses and mentoring for yoga teachers. She also teaches both workshops and yoga retreats nationally and internationally.