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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.
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.
Enrollment is closed for the 2025 offering of this course and will open about 3 weeks before we begin.
We’re committed to making this practice accessible while honoring the depth of what’s offered. As always there will be options to support your journey: Pay in Full, Installment Plan, Sliding Scale, and partial scholarships.
Get on the interest list to be among the first to know when enrollment is open.
Janet’s studentship began at 17 under the meditation teachings of Prem Rawat. His reverence for simplicity and finding joy in the rise and fall of life live on in her practice and teaching today. In 1996, she traveled to India, the birthplace of her grandfather, and became dedicated to the path of yoga. Janet blends the alchemy of her own practice with decades of studentship. She aspires not to teach but to allow the practice to emanate from her, letting awareness blend with movement and breath. Based in Bali and San Francisco, she leads immersions, retreats, workshops and more.
How is this course set up?
We are using an intuitive and engaging platform called Mighty Networks.
When you register and pay for the course, you'll be invited to join the course space there, which includes the curriculum and community discussion space all in one spot.
Will I get access to everything at once?
In order to provide a container for this practice and process, new practices will be offered every week. As soon as you sign up, you'll get access to introductory materials that will help you orient toward the practices.
I live in a different timezone (or country or continent)? Will I be able to participate in the course?
The course is setup so that it works for individuals no matter where they live in the world. New content will be released each week, and you can work through the practices, videos and exercises at your own pace. Live offerings will be recorded, in case the times don’t work for your timezone or schedule.
The community space allows for conversations to be ongoing and for individuals from nearby locations to find one another.
In what circumstances can I get a refund?
The course is non-refundable, since you get lifetime access to the content. If you have serious extenuating circumstances, email connie@janetstoneyoga.com and we'll discuss options.
Can I rewatch or review content from earlier modules?
Yes, absolutely. Once content for a week is unlocked, you will have access to that in the future.
When we offer the course again (usually a year later), some modules are briefly unavailable, but they'll reopen and you'll have the option to participate again at no cost (including any additions to the curriculum and any live events that are offered).
How much time should I plan to spend on the course every day?
We have designed the course to offer some flexibility. We know that everyone's lives are in different spaces and that each day can vary. We recommend setting aside about 1.5-2 hours for your first exploration of each weekly module. This is a great time to reflect on the prior week (we include reflections at the end of each module), to explore the current module's discussions, practices and readings.
How do the sliding scale rates and partial scholarships work? Do I qualify?
The sliding scale rates and partial scholarships are open to anyone who is supported in joining us with those options. We recognize that many factors can affect economic circumstances, including historical inequities, challenging exchange rates and current circumstances. Both options are readily available and there for you—no application or personal details are required.
