The beneficial effects of supportive touch are undeniable. Research consistently shows that touch slows down our heart rate, lowers cortisol, increases the feel good hormone oxytocin, and helps us to feel an overwhelming sense of calm and connection.

Learning to teach with intelligent hands on touch is an effective way to enhance your students' proprioception. The right support can help students move beyond their limits, break down barriers and gain confidence to show up to themselves in new ways both on and off the mat.

In this weekend long immersion, Anja and Ashish will guide you through practices and techniques that will help you feel confident and secure to offer supportive and transformative touch to your students. Through a blend of discussion, daily hands on practice, group collaboration and direct feedback, you’ll learn how to skillfully assist your students toward deeper union of mind and body.

Course Highlights:

  • Daily Practice: Gain tools to deepen clarity and connection within yourself so you’re well equipped to support others

  • Pose Dissection: Dissect the mechanics of common poses and learn to see bodies with more precision, leading to insights about how to collaborate with your student to give them a timely, intelligent assist.

  • Tailored Touch: Learn how to seamlessly weave verbal cues, props and hands on touch together to tailor your assists to the different needs of your students.

  • Group Collaboration and Feedback: Practice and hone your skills with group and partner work where you’ll receive insightful feedback from Anja and Ashish

  • This course is eligible for 15 hours of CEU and is recognized by the Yoga Alliance.

Course Schedule:

  • Friday January 9th: 6:30-8:30pm Capitol Hill

  • Saturday January 10th 12-6pm Capitol Hill

  • Sunday January 11th: 12-5:30pm Greenwood

Price:

  • Early bird enrollment by Nov 25: $495 — Save $55!

  • Regular Price: $550

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Your Instructors:

Anja's goal is to inspire connection, both individually and collectively. We all have a body, and we all have a mind, yet most of us walk around day to day quite disconnected from our bodies and overly active in our minds. Anja creates space for students to dive into a world where the body is invited to emerge as the speaker and the mind as a compassionate, kind and accepting listener. 

Anja's teaching strikes a balance between fluidity and strength. Her classes are heavily influenced by her extensive background in dance. She aims to create an environment where students may discover new and unexpected ways of moving and be motivated to expand their comfort zones. Through her all-encompassing teaching using asana, philosophy, mudra, music, and attentiveness towards breath, Anja playfully encourages her students to start from where they are. She believes that recognizing and accepting where we are and where we have been, allows us to begin to embody our truest sense of self, and in turn, carves out room to hold others with awareness and patience.  

Ashish grew up in India in an environment where the scriptures and the Bhagavad Gita were very much part of life. 

​After spending 16 years as an engineer in the computer and video game industry, he decided to take a break and teach yoga. The deeper he dove in, the more he was convinced this is what he wanted to do. Yoga had changed his approach to life, opening a new pathway to an almost constantly lived joy. 

He now wants to bring it to others. And he's been teaching full-time since 2015.

Ashish teaches with a smile and brings his fun personality to his teaching, just like his own practice. He weaves in yogic philosophy while leading a challenging, but not too serious asana practice.