Transform Your Teaching with
Skillful Hands-On Assists
Elevate your teaching skills and deepen your connection with students through the art of mindful, intentional, and intelligent hands-on assists. This method blends refined technique, clarity in alignment, and a deeply embodied understanding of conscious touch.
What’s Included
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Archived Lectures & Step-by-Step Tutorials
Real-time style demonstrations with clear visual guidance for every assist. -
Private Online Learning Platform
Lifetime access to all lessons, recorded content, and study material. -
Complete 5-Hour Curriculum
Sun Salutations · Standing Poses · Twists · Seated Poses · Backbends · Inversions · Finishing Poses. -
2 Bonus Sessions
Massage-inspired assists + a full real-class teaching example. -
Practicum & Self-Assessment
Refine your touch, alignment clarity, and sequencing intelligence. -
Certificate of Completion – 5 YACEP® Hours
Official YACEP certificate ready to submit to Yoga Alliance USA.
Who Is This Course For?
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Yoga Teachers
who want to refine their classes with intelligent, safe and elegant hands-on assists. -
Dedicated Practitioners
who are curious about alignment, energetic lines and the impact of conscious touch. -
New & Experienced Teachers
whether you are recently certified or teaching for years, this training gives you structure, language and confidence around assists.
What You’ll Gain
- Strong confidence in offering hands-on assists with clarity and precision.
- Deeper understanding of alignment and anatomy to keep students safe.
- Ability to see the body clearly and respond with supportive, intelligent touch.
- Techniques for standing poses, twists, backbends, inversions and finishing postures.
- Clear, consent-based communication that builds trust and safety in every class.
- A more elevated, embodied and professional presence as a yoga teacher.
Access & Duration
- 365 days access to all modules, bonuses and materials from the day of enrolment.
- Study in your own time zone, at your own pace – pause, rewind and revisit whenever you need.
- Ideal for teachers with a full schedule who need a flexible yet structured training container.
Course Content & Categories
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Theory: Hands-On Assists Art
Foundations, principles of touch, ethics and intention. -
Module 1: Sun Salutations – Hands-On Assists
Assists for dynamic sequences and vinyasa transitions. -
Module 2: Standing Poses – Hands-On Assists
Grounding, stability and length in foundational standing asanas. -
Module 3: One-Legged & Twisted Standing Poses
Balance, rotation and safe spirals in more complex shapes. -
Module 4: Sitting Poses – Hands-On Assists
Forward folds, seated twists and hip openers with spinal integrity. -
Module 5: Backbends – Hands-On Assists
Supportive heart-opening with protection for the lower back. -
Module 6: Inversions – Hands-On Assists
Spotting, stability and confidence in inversion practice. -
Module 7: Finishing Poses – Hands-On Assists
Grounding, integration and closing assists. -
Bonus 1: Massage-Inspired Hands-On Assists
Slow, intuitive touch to soften and release the body. -
Bonus 2: Real-Class Teaching with Hands-On Assists
Observe a full class to see how assists are offered in real time. -
Practicum & Certificates
Practicum – Hands-On Assists Assessment & Certificate of Completion.
YACEP® Provider & Certification
- Yoga & More School is a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP®).
- This training is registered for 5 YACEP® hours and can be added to your Continuing Education with Yoga Alliance USA.
- Upon completion you receive a digital Certificate of Completion that you can upload directly to your Yoga Alliance profile.
COURSE CONTENT
YOUR CERTIFICATION
Eligible to add 5 Continuing Education Hours in your Yoga Alliance Teacher directory
Note: To maintain your Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) status, Yoga Alliance requires the completion and logging of:
45 hours of yoga teaching
30 hours of yoga-related training every three years.
TEACHING TEACHERS HANDS ON ASSISTS THROUGH THE YEARS:
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Eva Kirmizaki
E-RYT500, YACEP
Practicing yoga since 2007
She has completed 600 Hours in Teacher Trainings
Teaching experience in a real studio & in a local community of spiritual growth since 2012 >1000hours: hatha, vinyasa, restorative, family, kids, prenatal, yoga for villas & hotels, workshops, retreats & trainings
Founder of the RYS200, RYS300 'Yoga and More' School
200 & 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Curriculum Creator & Leader
YACEP Courses Creator & Leader
Theta Healing Practitioner since 2014 (Think Institute®)
Β.Α. Classical Greek Philology (UOC)
M.A. Studies attendance in Teaching Methodology, History & Politics with specialization in women education (UOC)
A seeker and explorer, achiever or performer and a dreamer by nature, Eva Kirmizaki leads, directly from the heart of Greece where she was born, spiritual retreats, teacher trainings & sessions, as her spiritual mission. Creating spiritual communities with the basic tools of yoga & theta healing is something she feels as her inner call and a conclusion of years of preparation that have lead her exactly in this dharma/path.
