30/09/2026
I knew quite early on in my teaching career that I didn't want to offer hands on assists. For a long time I thought there was something wrong with me. I thought that I was just lacking the confidence and skill to do what needed to be done to keep my student's safe.
That was until I really got into the nuts and bolts of what yoga is, what the goal of yoga is and how in the yoga texts like the Sutras and the Gita it says very little about poses and physical practice and says nothing about how a student needs to be manually adjusted to learn the point of yoga.
In fact, as Krishna speaks to Arjuna during the course of the Bhagavad Gita, he quite obviously doesn't use a dogmatic "this is how it is done" approach, but makes multiple suggestions on how yoga can be practiced and achieved. It's very much left to Arjuna to make his own mind up about how he engages with what he's been told.
When I understood this I felt so validated. I want this for you too.
When you learn this stuff, it all kind of just runs in the background as you teach. So instead of making everyone in the class align their front knee over their ankle in Anjaneyasana in the name of safety, you'll be able to verbally invite them to explore what's happening in their bodies and decide for themselves.
