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.

Hands on Assists Training

dates – december 12 & 13

times –  9:00am – 6:00pm, saturday & sunday

location – Bhakti Center / 5E yoga studio

admission –

  • $475 – full tuiton
  • $425 – early bird (first 5 signups)

for any questions, please contact [email protected]

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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.

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

Jamuna Jaya Devi Dasi is a 500-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher who, after the first five minutes of her first yoga class, distinctly remembers thinking, “Oh, I soooooooooooo get this yoga stuff!” As a former professional dancer, and a life-long spiritual seeker, the synthesis of movement and contemplation on The Divine Spirit spoke to her immediately! She took her 200-hour YTT with Carrie Parker and Jillian Pransky’s Bright Spirit Teacher Training in NJ, and was lucky enough to join the apprentice program, and eventually staff at Devotion Yoga in Hoboken, NJ.

During her 300-Hour Advanced Teacher Training at Yogamaya, under Stacey Brass Russell and Bryn Chrisman, she found the path of Bhakti, and became an initiated student of HH Dhanudhara Swami.  She loves combining precise alignment, and spiritual focus to give a complete experience of yoga. Currently, she teaches at The Bhakti Center, Yogamaya, for the online training Yoga Renew, as well as guest teaching at studios like StoneWave Yoga and Three Birds.

When not on her mat, Jamuna performs as a clown in hospitals for children for Healthy Humor, as her “alter ego” Dr. Ima Confused, and is a professional storyteller bringing folktales to audiences of all ages everywhere from schools, libraries, and even prisons.

(E-RYT 500,YACEP)

Ma had a life changing experience when yoga was introduced to her life in 2009. Although movement was always part of her life through dancing, and a source of self therapy. Yoga brought a different type of healing, on a deeper level. At the heart of it, Ma is a hatha yogini , but she brings many different schools of yoga to the table. Her classes are mindfully crafted to challenge your mind, body and soul. Ma’s intention is to empower her students to follow what feels good. To use breath, movement and music as an access point for healing and growth, however that may look for each individual. She creates a space that feels safe for you to meet yourselves just as you are with love, compassion and honesty

payment information & cancelation policy

  • Full Tuition is due ONE week prior to school start date
  • Tuition is forfeited upon cancelation
  • Refund window closes 3 weeks prior to school start date; all monies forfeited thereafter
  • Tuition is non-transferrable to future trainings