{"id":47563,"date":"2018-04-24T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T13:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=47563"},"modified":"2018-04-24T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T13:47:12","slug":"the-necessity-of-touch-local-yoga-instructors-are-spreading-the-word-with-a-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/the-necessity-of-touch-local-yoga-instructors-are-spreading-the-word-with-a-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The necessity of touch: local yoga instructors are spreading the word with a new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you practice yoga, and have been lucky enough to have a teacher skilled at hands-on assists, you know how good that firm yet gentle touch feels as it encourages you to take your pose just a little bit deeper. But many have never experienced it. Local yoga instructors Allie Chisholm-Smith and Wendy Martin hope to change that.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have just published a new book,<em> Fundamentals of Yoga Assists: The Necessity of Touch, <\/em>aimed at giving yoga teachers across the country and beyond the skills to better connect with their students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the way that both Allie and I teach, it\u2019s a really big piece\u2014knowing how to be with people in their space, knowing how to support and assist without fixing or changing,&#8221; says Martin. &#8220;There can be a lot of focus in the yoga world on right posture. We come at it differently. Each body is built so differently so there\u2019s no one way to do something and our hands can translate support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chisholm-Smith acknowledges that in the midst of #metoo revelations, yoga teachers can be fearful of any touch with their students.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of teachers are incredibly terrified to touch, (with potential for) lawsuits, wrong communication, injury. So they think, \u2018I\u2019m just not going to then,\u2019&#8221; she says. &#8220;Our feeling is you have to. We need touch more than ever now but it\u2019s got to be smart and it\u2019s got to be discerning. There\u2019s an intimacy with the students for sure, I know that\u2019s a risky word, but it helps to make that contact and get people opening up better and more comfortably. And one of the things we really want to create here is a sense of intense safety where you can let go however you need to, whether it\u2019s that you need to cry or scream, whatever. For us, assisting is a huge part of that, it\u2019s like a welcoming of someone into the room, more than just doing yoga for yoga\u2019s sake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The teachers they&#8217;ve reached out to so far are excited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our immediate yoga community is thrilled,&#8221; says Martin, adding that many books have already gone to yoga teachers they\u2019ve met over the years at various retreats. &#8220;I don\u2019t think there is anything like this out there. The way that Allie and I teach is quite different from the way a lot of other people are teaching. The style is different, the language is different, it has a very feminine, soft feel, where a lot of yoga is hard, fast and loud. I feel like it\u2019s been kind of a welcome reprieve for people to slow down and reconnect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s made the pair really look at what it is that they do differently from many other teachers. &#8220;We\u2019re really clear that we don\u2019t just teach yoga,&#8221; notes Chisholm-Smith. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to use yoga as a vehicle to look at health. It\u2019s not about doing the pose well, but how do you use it as a tool not a destination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This week, Chisholm-Smith and her partner Paul Fairhurst will embark on a cross-Canada trip to introduce the book to yoga studios as far away as Victoria, B.C. She and Martin will be offering to travel to studios to present workshops on the techniques outlined in the book, and will host one in Huntsville in the future as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are hoping it can augment people\u2019s teacher training,&#8221; says Martin. &#8220;We have several weekends of hands-on assisting built into our teacher training (at Ahimsa yoga studio) but that\u2019s not the case everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But even without a workshop, they hope that teachers will find value in what&#8217;s offered in the book. &#8220;It would be better learned in a workshop, for sure,&#8221; says Chisholm-Smith, &#8220;but I think we were really careful with our words. It took us a year and a half to write it and I think you could get the gist of it just by reading the book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They also have long-term plans to produce a video series to illustrate the techniques in the book so teachers who aren&#8217;t able to host or attend a workshop can see the assists in motion.<\/p>\n<p>The book has also had an unexpected audience: some yoga students have purchased it to better understand their own practice. &#8220;One of the deepening things for students when you receive a hands-on assist or when you are looking at it in the book is it allows you to understand the anatomy a little bit more,&#8221; says Martin. &#8220;You understand that when you pull your hip down here, your spine lengthens. So it brings you this deeper understanding of yourself on multiple levels, this kinesthetic awareness that may not have been there before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That connection\u2014between practitioners and their own bodies, and between teachers and students\u2014is what they hope will be the long-term legacy of this book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My hope is that we start to touch again, that we\u2019re not afraid,&#8221; says Chisholm-Smith. &#8220;We are getting more and more anxious and less and less with the earth because we\u2019re not touching, we\u2019re not in connection. We text, we email. To get people comfortable with touch again, we get back into our selves and maybe create some more mental health. People are also deeply disembodied, we just aren\u2019t in connection with our bodies any more. So the whole process of what we teach is to get back in your body and make friends again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47598\" style=\"width: 1424px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47598\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47598\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/04\/yoga-book-p10.jpg\" alt=\"A page from Allie Chisholm-Smith and Wendy Martin's new yoga assists book. Paul Fairhurst was the photographer; Celine McKay did the book layout and arranged for an environmentally-friendly, waterless-ink printing process. \" width=\"1414\" height=\"1092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/04\/yoga-book-p10-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/04\/yoga-book-p10-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/04\/yoga-book-p10.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1414px) 100vw, 1414px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from Allie Chisholm-Smith and Wendy Martin&#8217;s new yoga assists book. Paul Fairhurst was the photographer; Celine McKay did the book layout and arranged for an environmentally-friendly, waterless-ink printing process.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! 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