Embodied Presence and Conscious Assists :
A Weekend Hands On Assist Training for Yoga Teachers
January 24-25, 2026
A two day immersion for yoga teachers who want their hands-on-assists to speak safety, steadiness, and energetic clarity.
8 am to 5 pm both days + 1 hour for lunch
Hours 16 Yoga Alliance cONTINUING EDUCATION
Location Evolve Academy in West Ashley Charleston
Capacity 18 participants plus two accessible seats
Embodied Presence and Conscious Assists is a weekend designed for teachers who want to refine how they read bodies and how they communicate through touch. This training blends subtle body awareness, nervous system literacy, energetic clarity, and clean physical technique. You will learn how to offer assists that feel safe, grounded, and connected while staying fully present to the entire room.
Touch is a language. When it is offered with presence and conscious intention, it builds trust. It encourages breath. It helps students feel stable enough to soften or strong enough to activate. This weekend is built to give you structure, theory, and extensive hands on practice so your assists feel clear, attuned, and trustworthy.
everything you want to know
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You want to offer touch that feels confident and conscious
You want clear frameworks for consent and safety
You want to deepen your ability to read bodies and energy
You want more timing, more practice, more feedback
You want to feel steady, grounded, and aware while assisting your students
You want to keep pace with the class while offering meaningful adjustments -
Offer confident assists in standing, seated, and restorative shapes
Use breath to guide timing and depth
Build attunement and trust through partner work
Discern when energy needs grounding or expansion
Apply trauma informed touch and consent practices
Cue while you assist without losing rhythm or presence
Protect and cleanse your energy before and after teaching
Move through extensive rounds of practice with feedback -
Yoga teachers looking to deepen presence in their touch
Teachers who want a grounded and conscious approach to hands on assists
Dedicated practitioners who tend space and want to understand the language of touch -
Each day begins with somatic movement and energy practices, then morning theory, followed byan hour for lunch, and moves into afternoon practice labs so concepts land in your body.
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Day one morning
Ice Breakers incorporating presence and nervous system foundations
Energetic anatomy including grounding, expansion, and containment
Consent and boundaries that feel natural and trustworthy
Breath mechanics for timing and safety
Touch as communication instead of correction
Day one afternoon
Partner practice for standing and seated shapes
Round robin assists with live feedback
Breath led timing and hand placement drillsDay two morning
Reading the room with subtle awareness
Regulating yourself while supporting others
Working consciously with heart openers, backbends, and supportive postures
Energetic hygiene before during and after teachingDay two afternoon
Partner labs for heart openers and restorative shapes
Full class assist scenario where you practice cuing while assisting
Integration, reflection, and embodied closure

