The teacher kindly offered to stay behind this week to help my friend and I learn more about how to adjust people when teaching. This means both getting them into the right position and helping them to get more out of a particular posture or stretch.
This is an area of my course that I think I am going to need to practice and get feedback on as I am learning, as I have never done this before.
The main points I took away from our session were around:
- Repositioning someone on the breath
- Being firm but not too hard or soft
- Getting oneself into the right position to adjust, helps both you and the person you are assisting
- Giving people ownership of their own bodies
- When applying pressure, press down and not in
- Move in and get close
We practiced some adjustments. And I could see how through a well supported adjustment you can get much more out of a stretch. I am going to be covering more of this on my course I hope, but this was a really helpful time and a great opportunity to learn from people who have been teaching for some time.
2 comments:
Yes, was a very good session and I learnt a lot L x
Yes and you put it into practice this morning - well done you xx
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