Yoga Adjustment Clinics

Join senior teacher Jock Orton on this series of courses and be taught when, and more importantly, when not to physically adjust a student.

The role of a yoga teacher is to keep your students safe, healthy and to help them reach the best of their ability. A great yoga adjustment will not only keep them safe but help them experience the pose to the fullest of their ability. With experience, yoga adjustments can help students learn new movement patterns that may in turn help them heal from previous injuries.

About

About

Adjusting or giving manual assists to your students safely and effectively is an amazing skill and this series of Yoga adjustment CPD clinics will give you this knowledge.

To become great at adjusting, it starts with your Observation Skills. Once you know what to look for you can skilfully individualise your adjustments according to your students needs. To do this requires knowledge of how to read body types, anatomy, joint mobility & functional movement.

What is your intention when you adjust?

There are three main reasons why you might offer hands-on physical adjustments. Firstly, to keep your students safe with healthy alignment. Secondly, to make the pose more easeful when they might be struggling. And thirdly to deepen the students experience of the pose, so that they can experience the fullest expression for their ability.

When and when NOT to adjust a student?

You will be taught when, and more importantly, when not to physically adjust a student, because there are certain situations when not adjusting is the most effective form of helping your students.

Many yoga teachers don’t give physical adjustments because a poor adjustment could injury your student. The role of a yoga teacher is to keep your students safe, healthy and to help them reach the best of their ability. A great adjustment will not only keep them safe but help them experience the pose to the fullest. With experience, adjustments can help students learn new movement patterns that may in turn help them heal from previous injuries.

Elements that will be covered during this series of courses

  • The ethics of touch
  • Their breath is your guide
  • Work from the ground up – foundations
  • Adjusting is a collaborative process
  • Observation skills
  • Anatomy
  • Body types
  • Hyperextension
  • Dealing with injuries
  • Is it functional? Is it necessary?
  • Working with energy patterns within the body

Asana categories

Standing

Standing Twists

Seated

Supine

Hip Openers

Inversions

Arm Balances

Back Bends

 

Who are these Yoga Adjustment Clinics for

Yoga Teacher & Trainee Yoga teachers

 The ability to help your students with a great adjustment can transform their practice; it’s a wonderful gift that you can give to your yoga community.

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Your Teacher

Jock Orton

It is said that we all come to healing in our own time and this was true for me when in 2000, I fell down a mountain snowboarding, breaking my back in four places and shattering my collarbone. After numerous unsuccessful operations, I decided to take matters into my own hands so that I might stand a chance of being mobile by the time I hit forty.

I began a regular yoga practice and as the ancient saying goes, ‘When the student is ready the teacher will appear.’ I moved back to Cornwall at the same time as Bridget Woods-Kramer, a world renowned Anusara teacher.  I did my first two teacher trainings with no intention of ever teaching yoga, I just wanted to further my knowledge for my own practice. It was Bridget who dropped the bombshell on me that she needed cover for a Saturday class that forced me into teaching my first class. I was completely terrified………but I loved it!

I spent six years studying and teaching with Bridget and have developed a style that is physically challenging with attention to posture and alignment and above all, playful. My experience has taught me to cherish the physical practice of yoga, but it is the connection between mind, body and soul that inspires my practice.  Over the last decade, my personal practice has moved towards Ashtanga and I have undertaken Ashtanga teacher trainings with David Swenson, Manju Jois and John Scott.

I have been teaching for 20 years and over this time I feel deeply privileged to have been taught by some of the worlds best teachers from a range of different schools of yoga, including Richard Freeman, David Williams, Sianna Shermann, Rod Stryker, Doug Keller, Bruce Bowditch, John Friend, Nancy Gilgoff, and Doug Swenson. In my classes I call upon the teachings of all of my teachers to best serve my own students, with a blend of the styles, techniques and adjustments I’ve learnt along my yoga journey. I am also co-founder and director of Lime House Yoga with my partner Emma and a dad to two wonderful children who constantly inspire and challenge me to be more present in the world and on my mat.

Join Jock’s classes at Lime House on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and Thursday and Saturday mornings.