Hands-On Assisting: Build Confidence, Skill & Connection Through Touch

Hands-On Assisting: Build Confidence, Skill & Connection Through Touch

elevate your comfort, confidence, and clarity

Who this is for

Touch is one of the most powerful tools a yoga teacher has — and one of the most underused. If you've been trained to assist but find yourself holding back, second-guessing, or skipping it altogether, this weekend is for you.

Over three transformative days, you'll go from uncertain to confident — turning hands-on assisting from something awkward or interruptive into a seamless, meditative part of your teaching.

This weekend is for current yoga teachers or 200 hour graduates.

Benefits

What You'll Walk Away With

  • The confidence to assist live classes across multiple styles

  • A clear internal "yes or no" around touch — for you and your students

  • Practical frameworks for consent, boundaries, and Brahmacharya

  • Skills to mindfully enter, assist, and exit without disrupting flow

  • A nuanced understanding of when — and when not — to assist

What to expect

Friday, June 12 | 5:30–8:30 PM

  • MEDITATION: Pranamaya- Boundaries and Balance

  • Introductions & Expectations

  • JOURNAL & DISCUSSION: Consent, boundaries & Brahmacharya frameworks

  • PRACTICE: Savasana sequence

  • REFLECATION: Journal & Discussion

Saturday, June 13 | 1:00–8:00 PM

  • MOVEMENT: Pranamaya energy warm-up

  • INVERSIONS & BACKBENDS— pros, cons & considerations (headstand, handstand, shoulderstand & full wheel)

  • REFLECTION & DISCUSSION

  • BREAK

  • RESTORATIVE POSES assists

  • JOURNAL & DISCUSSION

  • Public Restorative Sound Bath | 6:30–8:00 PM (Immersion participants will practice hands on assists)

Sunday, June 14 | 12:00–4:00 PM

  • JOURNAL & REFLECTION on public class

  • Q & A

  • VINYASA— what, how & when

  • JOURNAL & DISCUSSION

  • MEDITATION: closing

More information

Earn 13 CEUs — or apply hours toward your 500-Hour Teacher Training through Yoga Alliance or American Yoga Council.

1135 NW Galveston Ave, Bend, OR 97701, USA 97701

In person
Fri, Jun 12-Sun, Jun 14
05:30 PM–04:30 PM EDT
$195.00

Your instructor

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Deven Sisler
Level 3 Yoga Teacher Badge Level 3 Yoga Teacher

Bend, OR, US

Kids Yoga

Deven Sisler has spent two decades making yoga's most transformative tools joyful, accessible, and impossible to forget — especially for kids and families. Deven is an E-RYT 500-hour yoga teacher, senior AcroYoga and CircusYoga instructor, and founder of a Kids Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training that's changing how the next generation experiences themselves. She's authored The Yamas in Pajamas (2023) and a Kids Yoga Coloring Book (2026), and manages Children's Programs at Namaspa Yoga Community in Bend, OR. Her work is grounded in a simple belief: everyone deserves joyful play, emotional resilience, and deep self-acceptance. Whether you're a parent, educator, or yoga teacher, Deven's trainings and classes give you the tools to...

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