Description
Do you have students, clients, or patients who cannot get down on the floor because of age, weight, disability, or inflexibility? Are you missing opportunities to teach at hospitals, senior centers, or nursing homes? Learn to bring the therapeutic benefits of yoga to those unable to take part in even a gentle yoga class.
Along with meditation and relaxation techniques, breathing, chanting, acupressure, and the use of light weights to build bone and muscle mass, you will learn how to adapt traditional yoga poses to a chair.
In this training, you will learn to:
*Teach a one-hour therapeutic chair yoga class
*Choose appropriate postures and breathing techniques according to individual need
*Adapt postures to differing levels of flexibility
*Understand precautions and contraindications for poses and breathing techniques
**Understand basic anatomy and alignment for each chair asana
*Include other Eastern modalities to improve health and well-being
For yoga teachers, yoga teachers-to-be, and anyone with some yoga experience especially health-care professionals. Upon completion, you will earn a 25-hour certificate in Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga.
Note: Bring a pair of one or two-pound dumbbells. Tuition includes illustrated teacher’s manual, DVD, and CD.
After registering, please contact Bruce Binder at 760-774-1752 or bruce@getfitwhereyousit.com with your e-mail address so Lakshmi can contact you prior to the program.
This program includes extended hours. CE Credits 25
Lakshmi Voelker, E-RYT 500, YA, IAYT, created Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga in 1982. Creator of the DVD Get Fit Where You Sit and the CD Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga, she has certified more than 350 teachers nationally and internationally, including health-care professionals at the Mayo Clinic and the New York City Department of Education. www.getfitwhereyousit.com
Schedule Information
December 3-6, 2010
Friday 12/3 11am-7pm
Saturday 12/4 1:30-8:00pm
Sunday 12/5 1:30-8:00pm
Monday 12/6 1-7pm
Pricing Information
$550 by 11/15; $600 after
Workshop Policy
Full payment is required to reserve a space in workshops. Refunds are given for cancellations made 48 hours or more prior to workshop start date. Store credit will be given for cancellations made less than 48 hours prior to workshop start date. No credits or refunds will be given after workshop begins. YogaWorks is not responsible for any and all costs incurred for travel arrangements or accommodations related to this event.