The March installment of the 2026 workshop, teacher training (and community event series)!!!
Have you ever received a cue from your teacher that completely changed your experience in a posture for the better? Maybe that cue even altered how you are in your body from day to day? Such is the powerful possibility of cuing.
If you’ve ever tried to get someone into and out of a posture, you know that it’s not as easy as it seems! In this workshop, we’ll cover ways of getting your students into a posture with easy-to-understand language, how to help them refine their posture using words, gesture, and skillful touch, how to get them out and transition to a new posture with skill and ease (both for you and for them!). We’ll use the core sequence and each other as students to figure out the deceptively simple art of guiding yoga asana. This course is for teachers and teachers-to-be.
BREAK DOWN:
Friday 6-8pm FREE TALK (and Community Potluck!!!)
Body Scan Meditation
Brainstorm some of our favorite cues. Can you remember one or two that helped transform a posture or the experience of being in your body?
Kinds of cues: Transitional, Refining, Verbal, Directional, and Hands-on
What postures do you enter on inhale? What postures on exhale?
Cue me!
How can we cue with the ethics of Yoga – non-harming, honesty, etc… What else is being said through our tone, our body, how we touch, and what words we choose? What kinds of subconscious expectations, cultural values, etc are being expressed. How might we be projecting our own stuff onto other bodies?
Saturday 2-8pm
Practice and Journal, Language for Transitional and Deepening Cues; Go through our sequence and talk it through, Practice Teach, Reflections
Sunday 2-8pm
Practice and Journal, Directional and Hands-On techniques/basic poses (demo and practice), Practice Teach (small section with hands-on assists)
Learn more about Nirguna Yoga School – Workshop Series and Teacher Training!