Chair Yoga | VIRTUAL

Dina Cohen | 12 Sep (recorded content release)- 30 Sep 2023| 20 hours | Price: £195

Chair Yoga is a great practice for everyone, not just seniors and the less able-bodied, but also for those who would like to learn different ways to enjoy their yoga practice without having to get up and down from the floor: office workers, travellers and those with limited space…and anyone who finds themselves sitting down with 5 minutes to spare. This fun interactive course will provide you with new skills and creative ideas to offer your friends, family or in classes. 

This course can be attended as a stand-alone course or as an optional module on our Yoga Alliance accredited 300-hour programme.

Chair Yoga Course Content

We’ll look at ways to make yoga accessible for all, and especially how to incorporate different requirements within one group.  We’ll be sitting in a chair, standing and balancing with the aid of a chair and moving around the chair.

Course contents:

Chairs and props
Structure and planning
Warming up
Adapting asana
Working with limited mobility

Modifications for seniors and less able-bodies
Modifications for those with greater strength and flexibility
Ideas for office yoga
Relaxation and Restorative options

There’ll be plenty of opportunity to put it all into practice, with smaller group and breakout room sessions for teaching practice, feedback and discussion.

Teacher Bio

Dina Cohen

Dina’s Dynamic Yoga and Mindfulness teachings have evolved over 20 years, grounded in hours of trainings with renowned teachers, and experience working with students from all walks of life: refugees and asylum seekers, dancers from the Royal Ballet, seniors practicing Chair Yoga in Care Homes or festival goers that find her getting her Flow on in a field surrounded by revellers and heavy beats. Now navigating her way through her ’second spring’, she’s finding the rewards of s-lo-w-i-n-g down, tuning in and learning to rest deeply are essential for sanity maintenance in an insane world.

She currently offers open-to-all Chair Yoga classes online, corporate and charity sessions and runs teacher trainings in Flow Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Restorative Yoga, Mindfulness and of course Chair Yoga.

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" Fantastic workshop, I really enjoyed it and have lots of inspiration for my accessible classes"

Gabi Markham (teacher)

" Great fun as well as being just what I needed to get new insight and ideas to work with "

John Franklin (teacher)

" I found it really informative and inspiring. Looking forward to integrating some of these ideas into my Chair classes and 1:1s. "

Marj Cook (teacher)

" A really useful day! Exactly what I needed to get a bit more confidence adapting my teaching to chair yoga, and I appreciated your generous approach to sharing your knowledge in such a down to earth way. "

Beth Peach (teacher)

" Thanks so much for the session, it was great, just what I was hoping for. I have been looking for something for my team at work to have a moment out to focus on health and well-being, that is practical and something they would not ordinarily do "

" What I especially like about your class is that it feels very accessible - whether you practice yoga regularly or it would be your first time - and it doesn't require equipment, special clothes, or much space at all. There was also a lot of variety which you kept really simple, so the time flew by with little worry about whether I was doing it right or not. "

Anna Kearvell Roberts

I got loads of ideas and inspiration from the course and feel like I'll go into my chair yoga classes with a lot more confidence now.

Course Dates

The course has the following modules scheduled:

Release of recorded content Tue 12 Sep 2023
Introduction session Tue 12 Sep 2023

6:30 - 7:30 pm
VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM 1 Sat 30 Sep 2023

10-5:00 pm

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