Offering hands-on assists can be a practice in compassion and communication. Through this course, we’ll explore an approach to assisting, which begins with integrity in your own body and being.
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Offering hands-on assists can be a practice in compassion and communication. Through this course, we’ll explore an approach to assisting, which begins with integrity in your own body and being.
Offering hands-on assists can be a practice in compassion and communication. Through this course, we’ll explore an approach to assisting, which begins with integrity in your own body and being.
After years of separation and disconnection, we finally feel this sense of moving back into community. This will be a process of rebuilding trust with ourselves and others.
Through dharma talks exploring intention, seeing, and listening, we’ll approach assisting as a practice that goes beyond the physical. Detailed demos will explore the more technical aspects, looking at the biomechanics, perfect fit, and how to communicate through your hands with clarity and confidence.
Over four weeks, we’ll explore how anatomy informs practice—restoring stability, building strength, and creating sustainable movement patterns.
Introductory materials and course overview
Week 1 | Intention: Discover your intention for offering hands-on assists
Week 2 | Foundation: Find your own foundation and center as the starting point to support others
Week 3 | Relationship: Experience assisting as a relationship and a way to be in authentic connection
Week 4 | Technique: Learn specific techniques to understand biomechanics and to express effective hands-on assists
Week 5 | Compassion: Explore compassion for yourself and others
Week 6 | Course wrap-up and recap
We encourage you to find a partner, friend, loved one, or other teachers to create a community of practice.
