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Spring 2008
Social Welfare 98/198
2 Unit(s)

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field work course

About the Course:

 
What is CalSTAR Yoga? CalSTAR Yoga is a program in which yoga-assistants (that's Us!) assist people with disabilities in an authentic yoga practice. They are mostly experienced yoga students and are completely comfortable with and appreciative of the work you do with them.

CalSTAR Yoga class has been meeting for ten years and has an experienced and professional staff of yoga instructors who will guide yoga-assistants through class.  Each class session, yoga-assistants help yoga students into various yoga-postures using assisted postures, Thai yoga massage and shiatsu techniques, and also incorporating range of motion, muscle resistance and free
weights.  Much of the learning is hands-on during class.  There will be three mandatory workshops for DeCal yoga-assistants to gain a better understanding of yoga, shiatsu and Thai-massage principles.  Two of these workshops will meet on Saturdays. Workshops are participatory; your feedback in these workshops will help determine what we learn and how we organize our class.

As a Yoga-assistant, you will help people get up and exercise for what might be the only time of the week where they aren't either in bed or a wheelchair.  Stretching, loosening and relaxing the body for a few hours eases pain, increases flexibility/coordination, and helps stimulate all the under-stimulated tissues of the body.  The potential long-term benefits for people with disabilities are great.  Increased energy, stamina, flexibility, appetite and more are possible.


 

How to Enroll:

***Please note that our first class meeting will be held on January 25 from 1-4 pm, which is the Friday of the first week of class.  This is a week earlier than most de-cals begin.  Also, the very next day, Saturday January 26, we will be holding a mandatory workshop that is designed to introduce de-cal students to some yoga skills and practices that will help them get the most out of the course.  Time: 1-4:30 pm, at the RSF Combatives Room.

For lower division, enroll in Social Welfare 98, Section 3 (CCN= 80742)

For upper division, enroll in Social Welfare 198, Section 3 (CCN= 80856)