Adjusting Workshop
Melbourne
Saturday August 30th 2025
Hands-on!
Refine Your Touch. Deepen Your Presence. Empower Your Students.
Whether you’re new to hands-on assisting or looking to refine your skills, this one-day training is designed to meet you where you are — and elevate your capacity to support students with clarity, confidence, and care.
Join Nicky, a deeply experienced and intuitive teacher, for a practical, embodied exploration of hands-on adjustments. You’ll learn how to offer meaningful, safe, and transformative assists rooted in sensitivity, anatomical understanding, and energetic awareness.
Experiential Learning
In this training, you’ll explore:
Foundational principles of effective touch & hands-on adjusting
How to assist with presence, permission, and purpose
Adjustments across a wide range of postures — standing, seated, backbends, twists, inversions
Modifying assists for different bodies and intentions
Reading bodies and understanding what not to adjust
Energetic considerations: when to hold space, when to engage
Cultivating the confidence to trust your hands and intuition
This is not a one-size-fits-all approach. You’ll be encouraged to develop your own language of touch — grounded in technique, guided by ethics, and attuned to the moment.
Who is it for?
Yoga teachers (or teachers in training) of any level who want to grow their skill, safety, and confidence in offering hands-on support in classes or private sessions.
You’ll leave with:
A strong toolkit of versatile adjustments
A deeper connection to your own body and teaching voice
The ability to offer touch that is empowering, sensitive, and welcome
Practical experience and personalised feedback
Details
Saturday August 30th 2025
11am - 4pm
Restoring Wellness
716A Gilbert Rd, Reservoir
Melbourne
Investment: $140
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ABOUT NICKY
ABOUT NICKY
Nicky was fortunate enough to learn hands-on adjustments through personal mentorship with two exceptional yoga teachers in Jolene Buchanan and Joey Sbarro. Nicky immediately noticed the potency of how hands-on adjustments can create deep layers of connection, assist students in postural awareness and create a transformative environment that is supportive, heart-felt and practical. Moreover, the journey of learning adjusting has deepened his empathy for his students physical capabilities, expanded his understanding anatomy and the power of connection through touch.
Nicky spent his first 6 months of teaching yoga only working as a hands-on adjusting assistant for some of Melbourne’s most beloved teachers at KX Yoga, where all classes had dedicated adjusters. There, he refined his skills and learned experiential insights about a diverse array of body types and capabilities. This helped him shape his adjusting skills that have a structured anatomical approach, while creative in its application to suit different peoples needs - whether it’s physical, emotional or mental.
Nicky went on to create a comprehensive adjusting course for KX Yoga to train their staff in the art of hands-on adjusting and continues to offer workshops and trainings for adjusting around Australia.