Transform Your Teaching

with Hands-On Assists

Healing Touch: The Art of Supporting a Yoga Flow

Yoga Teacher Training | Sintra (PT) | 10-11.05.2025 & 15-16.11.2025

If you’re a yoga teacher with at least a 200-hour certification and you’re ready to take your teaching to the next level, this training is for you.

You’ve already built a solid foundation in your yoga practice, and now it’s time to deepen your connection to your students through the art of hands-on assists. This training blends the art of intuitive touch with hands-on alignment techniques and Reiki healing, bringing a transformative experience that will elevate the way you teach.

Whether you're teaching Vinyasa yoga in group settings or offering private sessions, you'll learn how to provide grounding, nourishing, and healing assists that deepen your students’ practice and experience.

If you're ready to expand your skill set and learn how to offer transformative hands-on adjustments—this is the training for you.

What are Hands-on Assists and how can Reiki enhance the experience?

Hands-on assists are techniques where the teacher physically guides a student to deepen and/or balance their posture, alignment, and energy flow. These assists provide grounding, stability, and support, while also enhancing the student’s energetic experience—creating a deeper connection between body and mind.

Incorporating Reiki into these assists takes the experience to a new level. Reiki, a Japanese healing system that channels universal life force energy, helps activate the flow of energy within the body. By blending Reiki with hands-on assists, you can guide your students in both their physical alignment and energetic balance, offering a truly holistic healing experience.

Reiki encourages the teacher to assist from a place of love and balance, protecting and nurturing both the teacher’s and the student’s energy. This unique combination allows you to offer supports that not only adjust the body but also facilitate energetic shifts, leading to deep transformation and healing.

This training will teach you how to use hands-on assists with Reiki to create powerful, intuitive, and transformative experiences for both you and your students.

What to expect

In this training, you'll gain hands-on experience in providing safe, grounding, and transformative assists. You'll learn the core techniques and mechanics behind each assist, focusing on proper alignment and how to support students through touch.

  • Hands-On Techniques & Alignment: Learn how to apply grounding assists to various asanas, including Sun Salutations, standing postures, forward folds, backbands, and twists, with an understanding of alignment and body mechanics.

  • Practice & Energy Connection: Ample practice time with feedback to refine your skills, while learning to connect with your students' energy and create a safe, supportive space.

  • Reiki Initiation (Module 2): Experience and learn to share Reiki energy as part of your assists (Reiki Level 1 available as an add-on).

  • Kundalini Practices & Sound Healing: Integrating Kundalini Yoga meditations to enhance your energy flow and each module will conclude with a sound healing session to integrate your learning.

Through this course, you'll gain experience and confidence in offering hands-on assists, allowing you to support your students in a way that feels authentic, safe, and healing.

Why take this teacher training

This training will deepen your practice and empower your teaching by equipping you with the skills to offer healing, intuitive assists. You’ll learn how to support your students physically and energetically, creating a transformative experience for both you and them.

  • Deepen Your Practice & Teaching: Enhance your own practice while learning how to help your students connect more deeply with theirs.

  • Intuitive Healing Touch: Learn how to combine physical assists with Reiki energy to offer a holistic, healing experience every time your students come to your class.

  • Build Confidence: Integrate assists seamlessly into your teaching, feeling empowered to support your students in group and private settings in a unique way, standing out from other teachers.

  • Join a Supportive Community: Be part of a group of teachers who will grow with you, offering feedback and guidance as you develop your new skills.

By the end of this training, you’ll be ready to guide your students with confidence, supporting their transformation through your hands-on assists.

This training isn’t just about watching or listening—it’s an immersive, transformational, hands-on experience.

You’ll practice assists on fellow teachers, receive constructive feedback, and experience the assists in your own body. This is just as important as learning to give the assists, as it allows you to feel them deeply and intuitively understand how to deliver them in your classes.

Your Teacher

Monja Mani

Monja is an experienced yoga teacher, Reiki Master, and practitioner with over 24 years of experience in teaching yoga. Her deep understanding of the body, mind, and energy systems allows her to offer yoga assists that go beyond the physical—focusing on creating a transformative experience that heals and nurtures students on all levels.

Monja’s background as a contemporary dancer also adds a unique fluidity and creativity to her teaching style, making her approach to hands-on assists both intuitive and grounded in body awareness. Having taught across Europe and the U.S., Monja brings a rich depth of experience in various styles of yoga, including Jivamukti, Vinyasa, Kundalini, and Prenatal Yoga.

In this training, Monja will combine her expertise in hands-on assists with the powerful healing energy of Reiki to teach you how to create a safe, empowering, and deeply healing experience for your students.

Our Location

Floresta Encantada, Sintra (Portugal)

This training will take place at the magical Floresta Encantada in Sintra, Portugal. Located in the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage site, Floresta Encantada offers the perfect setting for a deep, transformative experience. Surrounded by the beauty of nature, this serene location is ideal for quieting the mind and opening the heart. It’s easily accessible by train from Lisbon (just a 30-minute ride, with a 5-minute walk to the venue).

Module Details

Module 1 : Hands-On Assist

May Sat 10-Sun 11, 2025 | daily 9:00-12:00 & 13:30-18:00 (15-hours)
For yoga teachers and practitioners with a 200h certification

You’ll learn the fundamentals of offering grounding, safe, and transformative hands-on assists. This module focuses on understanding the mechanics of each assist and how to apply them to various asanas, from Sun Salutations, standing postures, forward folds, backbends, and twists. You will have plenty of time to practice on fellow teachers, building confidence and refining your technique, with constructive feedback to help you improve. To conclude the weekend you’ll receive a relaxing sound healing session to integrate the learnings before finishing Module 1. By the end of this module, you will be confident in offering hands-on assists in your group and private classes, especially in a flowing Surya Namaskar sequence.

Early Bird Price: 333€ (instead of 404€ full price)

Module 2: Healing Hands

Nov Sat 15-Sun 16, 2025 | | daily 9:00-12:00 & 13:30-18:00 (15-hours)
For those who have completed Module 1 or a similar hands-on training.

You’ll takes your skills to the next level by integrating Reiki energy and Kundalini practices into your hands-on assists trraining. You will be introduced to Reiki Level 1, learning how to channel healing energy with your hands. This module also includes more practice time, focusing on advanced postures like inversions and more complex asanas. You’ll deepen your connection to your students’ energy fields, learning how to support the flow of energy during assists. To conclude, a sound healing session will help you integrate your learning and feel the full impact of your new skills. If you wish to receive the Reiki Level 1 certification, a continuation of your training is possible online with Monja. For details speak directly to her during Module 2.

Early Bird Price: 333€ (instead of 404€ full price)

Package offer for both modules (30-hours)

Early Bird Price: 666€ (instead of 808€ full price).

EARLY BIRD ENDS MARCH 31st 2025.

This training is limited to a small group of max. 12 participants to ensure personalized attention, so don’t wait to save your place.

  • Monja is one of my favorite yoga teachers I’ve ever had. She is a ray of sunshine and a wave of calmness all in one, and her classes are medicine for the soul. I learn so much from her, and her hands on corrections are my favorite part. I love learning so much in each class about how to properly align my body and my breathing in every movement.

  • I practice weekly with Monja for a year now and I can tell that she is one of the few best instructors I have had in my life. Her style and knowledge create amazing classes. Being a yoga teacher myself for 10 years I have developed a good sense of alignment but her hands-on always allow me to go deeper into poses and understanding of my body space. It’s a quality I really rarely experienced. I recommend to anyone especially teachers to learn from Monja and help their students to go further into their practice.

  • Pure bliss and fully aligned: this is how I feel every time I step on the mat guided by Monja. After many years of trying different teachers, I can say I found the most incredible and inspiring mentor. I recommend her classes and teachings from the heart!

FAQ

  • This training is designed for yoga teachers and practitioners who have completed at least a 200-hour yoga certification and want to deepen their ability to assist in Vinyasa flow classes through technique and Reiki energy.

  • Module 1 is foundational, and Module 2 builds on that knowledge. If you want to gain a comprehensive understanding of hands-on assists, it’s recommended to take both modules. However, Module 2 can be taken by anyone who has completed Module 1 or a similar hands-on training.

  • No prior Reiki experience is required for Module 1. In Module 2, you will be introduced to Reiki Level 1 and learn how to integrate it into your assists.

  • The price covers all training sessions, materials, and guidance. Accommodation and meals are not included.