Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Teacher Training

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GET FIT WHERE YOU SIT®

Do your students, clients, patients, family, or friends have trouble practicing yoga on the floor due to age, weight, disability, or inflexibility? Would you like to teach yoga at hospitals, senior centers, nursing homes, or online?

Join Lakshmi Voelker, world-renowned trainer, yoga therapist, and coauthor of Get Fit Where You Sit: A Guide to the Lakshmi Voelker Method, and learn how to adapt traditional yoga poses to a chair with multiple levels of flexibility. These joy-filled, dynamic chair yoga classes bring the benefits of yoga to everyone, on any chair, anywhere.

In this certification program, you will learn to teach an accessible hour-long chair yoga class using the Lakshmi Voelker Method as well as:

• Practice single, double, and pair chair yoga.
• Use levels of flexibility for wheelchair yoga. 
• Use light weights in chair poses to build muscle and bone mass.
• Discern levels of flexibility and identify precautions and contraindications. 
• Choose postures and breathing techniques according to individual needs. 
• Understand anatomy and alignment for chair asanas. 
• Incorporate meditation, relaxation, and breathing techniques to improve health and well-being.
• Learn how to lengthen, strengthen, extend, expand, and balance on a daily basis on every chair. 

This training is suitable for anyone interested in teaching chair yoga including healthcare professionals, yoga teachers, yoga teachers-in-training, and mat yoga practitioners. 

NOTE Upon completion of the training, you earn a certificate in Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga worth 25 CEUs. Tuition includes a teacher development manual and access to online training videos. Please bring your copy of Get Fit Where You Sit: A Guide to the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method to the program, available for purchase online or at your local bookstore. Also available with a 30% discount via Shambhala Publications (enter the CHAIR30 discount code in the shopping cart).

Prerequisite Students with little or no yoga experience must complete 15 hours of yoga classes with a certified yoga teacher either live or online prior to the training. 

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