Chair Yoga Teacher Training

CPD Short Course

Supporting you to Support your Students

29th March 2025

Early Bird Rate Available. Use Code CPD10 when booking


 
 

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

 
“Nessa has been teaching yoga for almost 10 years. She has her own studio in Offaly. Nessa’s believes that yoga and lifestyle can help and benefit all people, and so she has offered regular chair yoga classes over the years. She now takes the expertise she has gained through her experience and shares it with other yoga teachers so that even more people can enjoy the benefits of chair yoga!”

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


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 29th March 2025 - BOOK NOW

  • 9 am to 5 pm (with a 90 min lunch)


Cost

Training Days

  • Early Bird €120 (use code CPD10)

  • Cost €130

Get the Support you Need ..……

Refining your Skills, Finding your Voice, Transforming your Practice, Expanding your Knowledge, Increasing your Income, Growing your Tribe, and Best of all have some Fun Doing it!