EdgeTouch™ Assist

Assist Your Student's & Clients In
Enhancing Their Asana Practice with
the EdgeTouch™, Hands-On Technique

DSL's yoga-based, hands-on bodywork process is called the EdgeTouch™ Technique.

There are two primary applications of the DSL EdgeTouch™ Technique:

1.) For facilitating Students and Clients in getting more out of their yoga postures, as in Asana Assist, and;

2.) As a full-blown system of Therapeutic Bodywork.

Here is more Detail on these two areas:

1.) Asana Assist:
In the first case, the more familiar a Yoga Teacher or Yoga Therapist is with how it feels to release a muscle — both as the person giving the manual technique as well as receiving the technique — the more effectively they can use light to moderate manual pressure to help a Student or Client learn how to Feel, Relax, Lengthen, Balance and Coordinate their muscles.

This is done in the context of an Asana Assist, where you use your hands to gently work with the relevant muscles while your Student is in an asana. This facilitates and multiplies deeper connections between the sensory and motor sides of their nervous system, as well as more connections between the body and the conscious and subconscious parts of their brain and mind. (And of course, as you do this, you are actually facilitating similar connections in your own bodymind. The very act of providing this to other people modifies your own psycho-neuro-musculo-fascial system. This mutual facilitation is called Structural Coupling, discussed more deeply in the Philosophical and Psychological elements of the DSL Yoga/Bodywork System.)

In the DSL Yoga Teacher & Therapy Trainings, you will learn the Basic PsychoMuscular Release Technique: How it works, how to do it, and how to receive it. Central to the system is learning about the Minimum, Moderate and Maximum Edges, and their Homeopathic applications. You'll learn how to apply that knowledge and skill in a range of circumstances. We'll actually work on each other in the program with the PsychoMuscular Release system (also called EdgeTouch™ for short). And the more you know how to use The Edge in hands-on work, the better you'll be at using it in yoga classes and therapy sessions when the Student or Client is working in a yoga asana, and, of course, it will greatly enhance your own yoga practice.

2.) Therapeutic, Yoga-based, Hands-On Bodywork:
There are many practitioners combining one or more of many systems of yoga with one or more of many forms of hands-on massage and/or bodywork. For example, teaching Iyengar Yoga and also practicing Rolfing®. Now, there is, of course, nothing at all wrong or incorrect with doing this kind of combined practice.

Yet, how would it be to have a fully integrated system of physical/mental yoga and hands-on bodywork that are based on the very same principles, and are in fact fully integrated and complimentary extensions of each other?

The DSL approach to hands-on, structural bodywork was and is based fully on principles of physical, mental and relational yoga learned from Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad. (Joel is called The Father of American Yoga by Yoga Journal.) In turn, DSL's yoga system has been modified by what was learned by more than 25 years of experience in hands-on, private bodywork sessions with a wide range of Clientele. A large portion DSL's Clientele had been to many forms of bodywork, yoga and other healing systems with insufficient results, yet found great success with DSL. This experience and synergy has evolved over the years to become and even more integrated and complimentary system.

Would this be of interest to you?

If so, the Welcome to DSL EdgeWork: Yoga/Bodywork Therapeutics