“A good adjustment is like having a pair of angel hands guiding you deeper into your yoga practice.”
- Lisa Black

"I just returned from Level 1 with Baron and wanted you to know I had a fantastic experience! When assisting during practice I ALWAYS got a MAJOR thumbs up! Of course this was entirely due to the SHAKTI TAP program last year and I wanted you to know by far that is one of the best workshops I have ever taken! Learning to assist not only helped my personal practice, but the firm guidance I then gave others had immediate and beneficial results! Thank you for that!"
- Jess (graduate of the SHAKTI Teacher Assisting Program)

WORKSHOPS

TEACHER ASSISTING PROGRAM (TAP) with Lisa Black & Gina Skene & Jessica Willis

Dates: TBA
Location: TBA
Pre-registration: TBA
Cost*: $475 before Feb 24, After $499

Weekend Schedule:

Friday (tentative):
11:15-12:00pm Welcome and introductions (Lisa)
12-1pm Take class and experience assisting (Lisa)
1:00-2:00pm Break to shower, complete assisting feedback form, and eat lunch
2:00pm-5:15pm (Lisa & Gina)
5:15-7:00pm Optional Group Dinner (High Life restaurant)
7:00-9:15pm (Jessica)

Saturday (tentative):
8:00-9:30am (First person practices assisting partner through class)
9:30-11:30am Break to shower, breakfast, complete assisting feedback form, and review it with your partner
11:30am-4:15pm (Lisa & Gina)
4:15-6:15pm Break for Optional Group Dinner (SAM’s Sushi Restaurant)
6:15-9:15pm (Jessica)

Sunday (tentative):
8:00-9:30am (Lisa)
9:30-11:00am (Second person practices assisting partner through class)
11:00-12:45pm Break to shower, breakfast, complete feedback form, and review with partner
12:45-4:15pm (Gina and Lisa)

This 24-hour Teacher Assisting Program (TAP) was developed in 2002 by SHAKTI Founder/Director, Lisa Black, as a means for training yoga teachers to provide skillful, effective, and empowering adjustments to students in vinyasa yoga classes. TAP is currently offered twice a year at SHAKTI in the fall and spring.

Learning to assist students in a vinyasa yoga practice takes clear intention, complete focus, and agility of mind and body. Join Lisa Black and senior SHAKTI Instructors as they teach you the stabilizing, corrective, and deepening full-body adjustments of the 53 traditional asanas within the 90 minute Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga sequence. This intensive training course is essential and complete training for new or experienced teachers, aspiring teacher assistants, or for those who would like to deepen their understanding and experience in asana. The curriculum will include the Art of Assisting, Types of Touch, 5 Element Assisting, True North Alignment, real-life experience assisting, and giving and receiving feedback.

TAP serves as the pre-requisite training for entering our Teacher Mentorship Program (TMP) and becoming an active SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga Instructor. Completion of this comprehensive course will give you a solid understanding of healthy alignment and form as well as specific hands-on adjustments for foundational postures. You will leave this program with a new practical toolbox and confidence of how you can empower students in their yoga practice. You can apply everything you learn to teaching any style of yoga and this course is a launching pad for your path to becoming a power teacher.

Pre-requisites: Participants need at least three months vinyasa-style yoga experience or have completed the SHAKTI 8-class INTRO Series. Participants need to read Journey into Power by Baron Baptiste and become familiar with the postures in the book before the beginning TAP. (You can purchase this book in our retail boutiques).

*Workshop Refund/Cancellation Policy
If you cancel prior to 14 days of workshop start date, you will be issued a refund less a (TBD per workshop) administration fee. No refunds, no transfers, and no credits for cancellations within 14 days of workshop start date. No refunds or credits for failure to attend or failure to complete the workshop.