🌟🧡 Adam Keen - Ashtanga Yoga A Holistic Approach - Safe and Effective Physical Assistance - 1 day Workshop Monday 🧡🌟

Safe and effective physical assistance
Whether you’re a teacher or a student, learning how to assist others helps you understand what you’re doing in your own practice. We will explore how to give assistance based on anatomical principles that is safe and effective and that don’t push a body past its natural limitations, rather affirms the individual’s body AS IT IS and works from there.

There is a way of approaching giving physical assistance that it not about ‘adjusting’ at all, rather using minimal pressure to guide an individual to feeling more space, stability and comfort in their bodies. This class is not based on giving one size fits all physical assists, rather looking at the individual and working from there.

7.00 – 9.00: Mysore Self-Practice
This practice is based on individual exploration, kindness, and fun. Adam gives yoga assistance in a safe and non-intrusive way. He does not believe in forcing people into postures, rather, he uses verbal and light physical touch to open new directions for you to follow if you wish. All are welcome to the Mysore class. Adam is happy if you need practice sheets, but you should have memorised at least the sun salutations A and B and some of the standing sequence.

9.30 – 11.00: Session 1 Safe and effective physical assistance
Whether you’re a teacher or a student, learning how to assist others helps you understand what you’re doing in your own practice. This doesn’t mean ‘adjustments’; pushing bodies further than they can naturally go, rather, a way of helping and individual, safely and non-intrusively, to connect more deeply and effectively to their own unique body as it is. Come and find out how we can use ‘physical assistance’ rather than adjustments to affect a more potent change than the outmoded ‘adjustment’.

11.15 – 12.30: Session 2 Safe and effective physical assistance

12.45 – 14.00: How to Create and Teach Short Practices for All Levels
Not all of us have the time, energy, or, even, motivation, to do our whole practice every day. But we still want to do a practice. However, it’s hard to how to structure a shorter practice that’s effective. So, here, we shall consider the fundamental principles of how to do so. Simple idea that, once grasped, will give you the sense of confidence to experiment with using the short practice format as and when you need or want to.

Adam has been a yoga practitioner since 1999 and has taught Ashtanga yoga internationally for over twenty years. His style is open, non-dogmatic and eclectic while remaining rooted in an appreciation of the benefits of the method of ashtanga as he learnt it in Mysore, India.

In 2012 he completed the Advanced A sequence with Sharath who granted him authorization to teach. Adam meets all students where they are, hopefully, with humour, kindness and inspiration, holding a safe and supportive space for personal enquiry. Equally at home teaching all levels, he gives all students attention and interest. He is democratic in his approach and kind and believes that the practice should not feel like a test.

Coming from an academic background in philosophy and a professional one as a chef, he is knowledgeable, practical, and relatable in his approach. Many consider him humorous too.
Adam and his wife Theresa run the online yoga platform Keen on Yoga and he hosts the Keen on Yoga Podcast interviewing many of the world’s most renowned Ashtanga teachers and philosophical academics.
Instagram: @adam_keen_ashtanga & @keen_on_yoga