The origins of touch in Yoga go deep and can confer so much information without using any words at all. As Yoga teachers and healers, it is important to know how your hands can help and how your hands can harm.

Tessa Murray, Jessica Nobrega and Josee Jarratt work together to provide you with a holistic approach to hands-on touch, language to use to gain consent, and how to know when an assist is appropriate. You will be given opportunities to deepen your own practice with unique and creative hands-on assists, as well as practice them on your fellow students.

When and Where:

• Saturday, 24 May 2025

• 1 - 6 pm, lunch break included

• University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus

What to expect:

• Learning what is the Teacher’s responsibilities with providing cues and hands-on assists

• Risks associated with hands-on

• Benefits of hands-on assists and language to use to show respect and care for your students

• Types of physical assists (including verbal and self-assists)

• The difference props and gentle pressure

• Practice of assists

• 60 minute Vinyasa Flow

Who this course is for: Yoga teachers, yoga teachers-in-training and dedicated Yoga practitioners. Whether you are looking to fine-tune your alignment in the postures or enhance your own personal practice, this course is an impactful learning experience that will add tools to your already diverse toolbelt.

You will walk away with:

• Fresh perspective and inspiration

• New language to use in your classes

• Confidence in hands-on touch and knowing when to use it

Certified with the Yoga Alliance, this course qualifies towards your continuing education hours.

About the teacher: Tessa Murray, YACEP, E-RYT 500, has been teaching yoga full time for 14 years. She won as KelownaNow’s Best Yoga Teacher and she creates intentional offerings that allow her students to blossom on their own time. Tessa believes Yoga can give us the tools to get the most out of life and be comfortable with discomfort all sorts.