Chair Yoga Teacher Training
CPD Short Course
Supporting you to Support your Students
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Opening new teaching opportunities for you and
bringing the benefits of yoga to more people
The transformation for a student teacher, where you teach your classmates, to a yoga teacher where you teach the public can be daunting. But for most of us, the biggest shock is how limited many people’s mobility is and how much pain people cope with as standard.
This training will give you skills to teach a specific chair yoga class, and also get you thinking about how you can adjust or integrate some of these adjustments into a regular yoga class.
Chair yoga is often thought of as “yoga for old people”. However, the audience for chair yoga is much wider. have a look at the list below and see how many others you can add to it.
Bring Yoga to a larger audience?
Wheelchair yoga
Ageing Population e.g. Organisation, Clubs & Nursing Homes
Injured & Recovering Populations, e.g. Rehabilitation Centers
The Office workers
The Professional Drivers - Taxi, Long hall, Driving instructions
Specific industries with restricted movement during work - eg. Airline Staff
What is chair yoga really about?
Chair yoga is firstly about understanding the tools of yoga; asana, pranayama, and meditation form the perspective of what the effects of each are, and what is actually needed to be able to achieve that effect.
Secondly, it is about understanding anatomy and physiology, from the perspective of what is necessary, beneficial and restrictive to be able to live a healthy life.
Finally, it is about having the imagination to keep the core aspects, drop the unnecessary and find ways to adjust the asana or the environment to make it safe and useful to the student.
The Prayer of the Chair Yoga Teacher
Give me the understanding to know the essential
The confidence to drop the unnecessary
And the wisdom to know the difference
“If you can breathe you can do yoga.
Each of the asanas & pranayamas offer many benifets. Our job as teachers is to explore with our students what their goals are, and how to use asana and pranayama to achieve that goal in their body on this day.”
At Aruna Yoga’s Chair Yoga Certified Short CPD Course for Yoga Teachers
Topics we will cover
getting clear who your student is - what their properties are, what their mobility limitations are
knowing the difference between Yoga and Yoga Therapy (This is Yoga Teacher Training, not Yoga therapy)
inclusive & trauma-sensitive approach to sharing yoga
a journey through the body
yoga on a chair
yoga with a chair
case studies
boundaries and ethics
About Laura
Laura has been teaching chair yoga since 2012. She is one of very few embodied yoga teachers working in this area, Over the years she has through private classes as well as classes at the Irish Wheelchair Association and Central Remedial Clinic (CRC). Laura initially trained with Yoga Therapy Ireland and did further with a number of teachers specialising in the area. Later training as a Somatic informed Embodied Yoga Teacher she has developed her skills and is now delighted to share them with you.
Certification
This course is Certified by Aruna Yoga Academy and qualifies you for 8 hours CE with Yoga Alliance
Prerequisites
Completion of 200hr Yoga Teacher Training
Time & Dates
Saturday 22nd June 2024
9 am to 5 pm (with a 90 min lunch)
Cost
Training Days
Cost €130
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