The Art of Assisting Yoga Poses with Gilda Goharian
Improve your teaching skills and offer your students a deeper experience with hands-on assists.
€ 40.00
2-hour online course
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Downloadable course material
EkhartYoga completion certificate
Differentiate yourself as a yoga teacher
Learn multiple assist variations for 14 common yoga poses including backbends, standing poses, forward bends and more.
Keep yourself and your students safe
Learn key assisting stances and placements to give beneficial assists without compromising your body.
Learn assisting basics and ethics
General Do’s and Don’ts of assisting, to help you remain mindful and respectful of your students’ experience.
Course structure
Whether you are completely new to assisting methods or just not comfortable enough to implement them into your yoga classes, Gilda will provide you with thorough techniques and advice.
This course is designed to improve your teaching skills and offer you a new way to differentiate yourself as a yoga teacher.
You will learn:
- How to introduce assists to your students
- General assisting principles and Dos and Don’ts
- Difference between assisting and adjusting
- Assisting techniques for 14 common yoga poses
- Multiple assisting techniques for each pose so you can find what suits you
- Basic assisting stances and placements, for your comfort and safety
- Assists for all levels: from beginners to advanced students
- Hands-on and Feet-on assists
- How and when to assist poses in a sequence/flow class
- The ‘king’ of all assists: the Thai massage-inspired Savasana
Throughout the course, Q & A sessions with Gilda’s students clarify common misconceptions, as well as discussing more specific situations.
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Meet your teacher:
Gilda Goharian
In 2013, Gilda became one of Germany's first certified Budokon Yoga teachers. Exercise has always been a part of Gilda's life. From childhood she was involved in sports and dancing but it was a while before she considered becoming a yoga teacher herself. Gilda started as a group fitness instructor, teaching different kinds of fitness formats, and functional fitness classes such as BodyArtTM which combines, amongst other things, elements of Hatha Yoga, strength training, meditation, classical breathing techniques and physiotherapy.
After experimenting with several yoga systems, Gilda took up a regular Vinyasa practice and still loves the flexibility and creativity of this particular style and the way it balances body and mind. She completed a fundamental 200 hr teacher training in 2010 with Vidya Jacqueline Heisel and Jennifer Yarro of Frog Lotus Yoga.
In 2012, Gilda finished her Advanced Teacher Training (+300 hrs) – also with Frog Lotus. Soon after she completed a Budokon Yoga Teacher Training with Cameron Shayne and got hooked on this unique transition-based Hatha Yoga flow with Martial Arts circular influence and continuous rotation.
In addition, Gilda is a Thai-Yoga-Massage practitioner and as a graduate from the T. Colin Campell Center of Nutrition and eCornell, is also passionate about sharing the multiple benefits of whole food, plant-based nutrition for optimal health, wellbeing, and athletic performance.
At present, Gilda is working toward another 500 hr certification in Yoga Medicine with Tiffany Cruikshank, an advanced training that focuses on a deeper understanding of anatomy and physiology and its application to traditional yoga philosophy.