Discover the transformative power of touch in yoga and learn essential hands-on assist techniques in this comprehensive training. Explore best practices, ethical considerations, and effective methods to enhance your students’ alignment, stability, and overall experience while respecting boundaries and ensuring safety for both teacher and student.

ADJUSTMENTS, ALIGNMENT, & ANATOMY

50 hour training

dates – april 25 – 27 & may 2 – 4

times –

  • ONLINE – 6:00pm – 9:00pm EST (fridays)
  • 9:00am – 5:00pm (saturdays and sundays)

* In addition to the above schedule, students will be required to do other homework outside of class

location – Bhakti Center / 5E yoga studio

admission –

  • $950 (regular price)
  • $850 early bird (first 5 signups)

for any questions, please contact yoga@bhakticenter.org

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There is a power in touch.  There are studies showing that babies that are not held experience what is called “failure to thrive”, and do not develop like other children.  During the global pandemic many of us were devoid of any type of in person contact, much less in person yoga. The need to educate teachers about how, when and why to give hands on assists are of upmost importance.

      In this training we will:

  • discuss our feelings about hands-on assists – now, and what they might have been prior to Covid (if the teacher was teaching then);
  • discuss best practices in ensuring that permission is asked about hands on;
  • look at populations and teaching scenarios where giving hands on might be challenging, or triggering;
  • setting guidelines for what part of the body is NOT to be touched, and the line that has to be walked when assisting someone of the opposite gender;
  • learning how to protect one’s own body when giving assists;
  • learning and practicing hands on assists that help better align a student’s body, stabilize a student in a pose, deepened a student’s experience in a pose.

Provided that you have completed all assignments, upon graduation, you will receive a 50 hour yoga teacher training certificate that you can apply towards our 300 hour yoga teacher training program and have the option to register as a RYT 300 via Yoga Alliance. 

You can find the schedule of our upcoming 300 hour yoga teacher training modules here.

what to expect

  • be a part of a supportive community
  • learn from experienced and adept teachers
  • explore and experience variations of yogic techniques
  • gain skills to lead a yoga class

your guides

Kishor Chandra is a yoga teacher, bhakti practitioner, and kirtan leader. Always seeking deeper truths and a higher purpose Kishor moved to India when he was 21 years old. There he lived in ashrams and studied the ancient yogic philosophy of the Vedas and yoga asana under the tutelage of master yogis. Kishor leads workshops, trainings, and retreats all over the world but his home base is the Bhakti Center where he serves as the Yoga Director. He has studied under the guidance of master teachers His Holiness Radhanath Swami, Kulavadhuta Satpurananda, Dr. Gajendra Kumar, Raghunath Cappo, Jaya Jagannath das, Dana Flynn, Abbie Galvin, Nevine Michaan, Benjamin Sears and others.

Being a yoga philosophy nerd, an alignment geek, and a gym rat, Jamuna’s classes are irreverently reverent, sweaty and precise, and full of laughs!!  A practicing bhakta, 500-hour certified Yoga Instructor, a professional clown in hospitals for children, and a professional storyteller, Jamuna loves to  serve anyone who walks into her class!

payment information & cancelation policy

  • $2,000 Non-refundable deposit due upon acceptance
  • Full Tuition is due ONE week prior to school start date
  • $2,000 deposit is forfeited upon cancelation
  • Refund window closes 3 weeks prior to school start date; all monies forfeited thereafter