Chair Yoga - A Workshop for Teachers
It is often challenging to find safe and grounded practices for students with mobility or balance issues. In a traditional postural yoga class, the typical starting point is standing, kneeling, or lying on a mat on the floor, but these positions are not always accessible for many potential yoga students. Chair Yoga utilizes the same mind-body principles as mat practice, but from the safety of a chair. Learn how to offer your students grounding, spinal awareness, strength building, and ease in the body and breath through Chair Yoga in this workshop with Carey Sims.
“When adapting yoga classes to a chair, teachers often get stuck on how to modify this or that shape. My philosophy is if we move in the right ways, the shapes will appear. I am interested in bringing peoples’ awareness to their breath and experience and focusing on functional movements they can use in their daily lives. To me, that is much more useful than mastering some arbitrary shape.”
What to expect:
- Chair Yoga practices led by Carey each day
- Explore ways to adapt functional movement and breathwork to make them accessible
- Embrace creative ways to make movements and sequences fun
- Discuss theming, cueing, and ways to approach your Chair Yoga classes
- Deconstruct asanas and discover ways to think about postural modifications
- Discuss some common contraindications for Seniors and Adaptive students
- Learn from and share with your peers through small group teaching
- A handout and website link with sequencing ideas, an overview of discussion points, and visual references for postures
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This workshop provides 12 Yoga Alliance accredited CEUs