January 23 – 24, 2027

This training will help you develop the knowledge and confidence to teach thoughtful, inclusive, and trauma-aware Chair Yoga classes. You’ll learn to adapt postures and sequences, offer clear cues and meaningful choices, and support students without assuming what they can or cannot do.

Together, we’ll explore:

• Accessible movement and sequencing: Seated and chair-supported postures, transitions, and adaptations for different levels of strength, flexibility, mobility, and balance.
• Health considerations: Teaching considerations for students with high blood pressure, a history of stroke, joint replacements, arthritis, osteoporosis, or injuries, including when medical guidance or clearance may be needed.
• Emotional well-being: Ways to offer a welcoming environment for students experiencing isolation, loneliness, grief, or changes in independence.
• Nervous system awareness: An introduction to polyvagal theory as a framework for exploring connection, choice, and a sense of safety.
• Breathwork, meditation, and relaxation: Accessible practices that invite students to pause, notice their experience, and release tension.

You’ll receive a teacher training manual with the postures covered in the training and Chair Yoga sequences to support your teaching. We’ll consider how to bring these practices into assisted living communities, community centers, online classes, and private sessions.

Chair Yoga is a meaningful addition to your teaching toolkit. It offers students who may have felt excluded from yoga an opportunity to discover their capacity for movement, presence, and connection—and to experience a practice that welcomes them as they are.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Teach Chair Yoga to diverse populations by offering accessible options for different mobility levels, body types, ages, and lived experiences, while maintaining a welcoming and inclusive class culture.

2. Sequence Chair Yoga classes skillfully by designing classes with a clear arc (arriving, warm-up, building/peak, cool-down, rest), and balancing strength, mobility, stability, breath, and relaxation.

3. Work confidently with special physical needs, injuries, and common health conditions by applying foundational precautions, offering appropriate modifications and progressions, and recognizing when to refer out or encourage medical guidance.

4. Use touch and assisting safely and ethically by practicing consent-based, trauma-aware assisting; offering hands-on assists only when appropriate; and using clear verbal cueing as a primary tool.

5. Facilitate a sharing circle that promotes community by using invitational language, prompts that promote connection, and supporting participants to share in ways that feel emotionally safe and optional.

Details

Location, Cost, & Schedule

Schedule:

Saturday: 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Sunday: 11:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Cost: $410, plus tax, including manual

Location: Blosm Studio in Wedgwood

Cancellation Policy:

If your payment in full is not received by January 4, your space will be opened to another participant. Deposits and payments in full are non-refundable. If for any reason you are unable to attend the training, I will try to fill your place by keeping a waiting list and sending a newsletter. If I am able to fill your place, you will receive a refund, less a $50 admin fee.

To Register:

This training is limited to 7 participants. There are 3 spaces remaining. To register, please email Jodi. You can pay in full now, or make a $200 deposit, to hold your place via Zelle or Venmo. The remainder is due on January 4, 2027.