Adjustment Clinic

In these clinics, we will apply a therapeutic approach to the asanas of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Primary Series as a platform to learn how to support yoga practitioners during their practice. It will be offered over four sessions, totaling 15 hours. Partner work is involved in all sessions.

The clinics are open to all levels of yoga practitioners and will be conducted in person only.

Session 1: Fundamentals

Saturday, October 24, 1:30-5:30pm

During this session through a series of Dyadic Exercises, we will learn grounding techniques, space holding, observation, and preliminary pattern recognition. We will use the Surya Namaskar A and B sequences as a gateway to review basic alignment principles that apply to all the standing postures and how to support people in those postures.

Individual Session Pricing

• General: $160
• Members: $135
• Early-bird through 10/14: $135

Session 2: Fundamental Adjustments Part 1

Saturday, October 31, 1:30 -4:30pm

In this session we will learn how to support people during the seated postures of Primary Series. We will look at the pelvis, its role and function and how it supports the spine.

Individual Session Pricing

• General: $130
• Members: $110
• Early-bird through 10/14: $110

Session 3: Fundamental Adjustments Part 2

Saturday, November 7, 1:00 to 5:30pm

In this session we will investigate twists and backbends and the many ways we can support students in these postures. The emphasis will be to do twists and back bending postures safely.

Individual Session Pricing

• General: $160
• Members: $135
• Early-bird through 10/14: $135

Session 4.: Fundamental Adjustments Part 3

Saturday, November 14, 1:00-5:30pm

In this session we will work on inversions and review some of the more advanced postures of the series. The emphasis will be on the safety of shoulders and neck.

Individual Session Pricing

• General: $160
• Members: $135
• Early-bird through 10/14: $135

We encourage you to register for the entire course. Those taking all 4 sessions are eligible to receive Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Units.

About Mojdeh

Mojdeh B.S., M.S., C-IAYT, ERYT, CHTP, Reiki Master, Transpersonal Life Coach, has been a student and practitioner of healing arts for nearly five decades and has been teaching meditation and yoga in the Bay Area for many years. She has had the honor to study with the late Ashtanga Vinyasa Master, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, his daughter Saraswati, and his grandson Sharath as well as many senior teachers of the Ashtanga Vinyasa lineage (Richard Freeman & Mary Taylor, Chuck Miller, the late Maty Ezraty, and Tim Miller to name a few). She has had the honor to participate in the 200-hr, 500-hr, and 800-hr Life of a Yogi teacher training with Sri Dharma Mittra and had done teacher training with Manouso Manos at the Abode of Iyengar Yoga.