This immersive workshop is designed for yoga teachers and teachers in training who want to refine their ability to observe students clearly and give precise, intelligent hands-on adjustments.
Teaching is not only about giving instructions, it is also about learning how to see. Through observation, anatomical awareness, partner work, and guided hands-on practice, participants will learn to recognize imbalance, compensation, effort, and stability within a pose, and how to respond skillfully manually. Teachers will practice observing real bodies in real time, give and receive adjustments, and develop confidence through guided feedback and discussion.
This workshop is especially valuable for those who wish to deepen their observational skills, improve the clarity of their adjustments, and build confidence working directly with students in a more responsive and skillful way.
CIYT’s ONLY may attend Friday Session
Schedule:
Friday, October 9, 2026 (For CIYT’s Only)
Teachers Session - 2:00-5:30 pm; Cost $135 Drop in
Marla is also teaching a weekend Intensive Progression in Iyengar Yoga, please register separately for this weekend course, scroll down down for details.
Progression in Iyengar Yoga on Saturday and Sunday.
Cost for all 3 weekend sessions : $250
Saturday October 10 : 9:00–11:00 am Cost $100 (drop-in)
Session 1: Establishing the Foundation (Level 1)
Beginning-level postures and essential actions that form the basis of all asana. Students will explore how clear physical actions create stability in both body and mind.
Saturday October 10: 1:00–4:00 pm Cost $100 (drop-in)
Session 2: Connecting Actions (Level 2)
Students will begin linking beginning actions into more dynamic and layered postures, recognizing how basic principles evolve into more challenging variations.
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Sunday: 12:00–3:00 pm Cost $100 (drop in)
Session 3: Depth, Perception & Advanced Practice (Level 3–4)
The final session introduces more advanced postures with an emphasis on refinement, subtle awareness, breath, and internal perception while maintaining those beginning actions throughout.
Bio: Highlighted by Yoga Journal Magazine as one of twenty-one yoga teachers helping to “shape the future of yoga,” Marla has been teaching Iyengar Yoga in Los Angeles, nationally and internationally for over 30 years.
Since visiting India for the first time to conduct research for a degree in Buddhist philosophy, Marla has returned annually to study yoga with B.K.S. Iyengar and his children, Geeta and Prashant.
Her interest in yoga therapy led her to design research studies on yoga for mental health and to form Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics, a non-profit organization working to further knowledge of and accessibility to yoga’s healing applications.
Marla served the yoga community in various roles including President of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States, creator of ethical guidelines for U.S. certified teachers, member of national certification and yoga therapy committees and teaching standards advisor for Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists.