CalStar Yoga is a program where Yoga-assistants (that’s Us!) assist people with disabilities in an authentic yoga practice. You help by assisting them into various yoga-postures, giving massages, and generally helping their bodies and minds feel really good. They are mostly experienced yoga students and are completely comfortable with and appreciative of the work you do with them.

CalStar Yoga has been going on for ten years and has an experienced and professional staff of yoga instructors. Yoga-assistants receive on the job training. You also learn during three out-of class workshops in: yoga, shiatsu and Thai-massage. 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.