Yoga with a Chair – say what? Yes, yoga using a chair. For older adults and people of any age with varying physical limitations, using a chair instead of the traditional mat is what makes yoga’s amazing fitness and health potential both accessible and safe.

Older Adults represent the fastest growing sector of our population and they are increasingly drawn to yoga.  This phenomenon is creating an increasing demand for well-trained yoga teachers. It is essential that yoga teachers learn how to best serve older students and students with limited mobility and/or other concerns.

Chair Yoga Teacher Training with Annette Wertman is for Yoga Teachers with their 200 hour certification working towards their AYTT (500 hour certificate) and for anyone seeking to experience the benefits of Chair Yoga as well as health professionals, body workers, physical therapists and exercise instructors who work with older adults and persons with other issues and/ or concerns.

Training will include:

• Rationale, myths, populations, guidelines of teaching Chair Yoga
• Applying pranayama, meditation and yoga philosophy
• Health challenges and concerns
• Chair Yoga poses
• Chair Yoga practice
• Sequencing the Chair Yoga practice
• Practical teaching experience
• Business of teaching Chair Yoga

This program is a module of the AYTT program that leads to 500 hour certification.

For 200 hour Yoga Alliance certified teachers the credits of the course can be applied towards the 500 hour certification, and is eligible for 35 hours CEU with Yoga Alliance. Continuing Education Units are required to maintain your status as a Registered Yoga Teacher.

Upon completion of this course and full payment, students will receive a Certificate of Completion documenting participation and attendance. In order to be a certified yoga teacher, students must also have completed a 200 hour Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher Training.