Teaching Mastery in Chair Yoga- Advanced skills for Instructors
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Teaching Mastery in Chair Yoga- Advanced skills for Instructors with Sundari Lucey, E-RYT 500
February 17-March 10, 2025
Live Zoom Meetings: Mondays 9:30am-11:00am Pacific
(12:30-2:00pm New York | 5:30pm-7:00pm in London)
Everything is recorded if you can’t make the time.
15 hours of Yoga Alliance CE
Teaching Mastery in Chair Yoga- Advanced skills for Instructors
Take your chair yoga teaching to the next level with our advanced training designed specifically for instructors. Led by Sundari Lucey, E-RYT 500, this course is crafted to empower yoga teachers with the skills, techniques, and knowledge to confidently lead chair yoga classes that move beyond the basics, incorporating more challenging and nuanced variations along with refined techniques to cater to a wide range of student abilities and needs.
In this comprehensive training, you’ll learn how to guide students in deeper and more challenging variations, using the chair as a versatile tool to deepen their practice and expand their physical capabilities. This course focuses on developing your teaching expertise, with an emphasis on effective communication, refined alignment techniques, and advanced modifications for students with different mobility levels. You’ll gain a thorough understanding of how to create safe and inclusive classes that challenge and inspire students while maintaining proper biomechanical principles.
Special Focus: Women’s Health in Senior Years
Learn to address specific physical, hormonal, and emotional changes associated with senior years, such as osteoporosis, joint health, pelvic floor strength, and symptoms of menopause. Gain insights into supporting breast cancer recovery through gentle movement, stretches, and techniques to promote lymphatic health and improve mobility. This specialized focus equips you to create safe and empowering practices that meet the unique needs of senior women, fostering resilience, balance, and overall vitality.
Whats Included?
- Four (4) live 1.5-hour Zoom sessions featuring teaching practice, interactive discussions, and advanced pose breakdowns.
- Access to five hours of pre-recorded video content on advanced chair yoga techniques and teaching methodology.
- Homework assignments that encourage experiential learning and practical application.
- 15 accredited hours of Yoga Alliance Continuing Education.
What You Will Learn
- Advanced techniques to teach chair yoga postures that improve strength, flexibility, and balance.
- How to adapt and modify poses for various student needs, including seniors and those with limited mobility.
- Skillful teaching strategies to guide students into deeper, more challenging postures using the chair as support.
- Techniques for enhancing your verbal cues, demonstration skills, and hands-on adjustments.
- Sequencing strategies for building progressive chair yoga classes that offer both challenge and accessibility.
- A specialized focus on women’s health, addressing key considerations such as pelvic floor strength, joint stability, hormonal changes, and recovery techniques for conditions like breast cancer.
- Insights into teaching breathwork and mindfulness practices specifically tailored to chair yoga.
- Methods for creating a supportive learning environment that fosters student growth and confidence.
- This course is perfect for yoga instructors who want to deepen their expertise in chair yoga and enhance their ability to teach students of all levels with confidence and creativity. Join us to become a leader in chair yoga instruction and inspire your students to transform their practice.
Cost: Early bird of $297 until Feb 4 | $347 USD after
About Sundari Lucey
E-RYT 500, Certified Anusara YT, Certified Neuromuscular Massage Therapist LMT
Sundari’s allegiance to this powerful transformative practice is though her own inner teacher and infinite presence which guides the flow of energy into form creating conscious expression and experience.
She began teaching yoga under the tutelage of Ramanand Patel in 1987 in Saratoga, CA after completing a 2-year program at The Iyengar Yoga Institute in SF. Sundari has had the privilege of studying with numerous renowned teachers in her early years of training as well as completing a 17-year circuit with Anusara Yoga where she traveled abroad and the US conducting Immersions and Teacher Trainings for certification to many extraordinary students. Together with Brown Earth ™ she developed a YouTube channel along with a DVD called “A dose of Yoga with Sundari.” In her yoga career Sundari owned and operated 3 yoga studios up until 2020 giving people from all walks of life a place to gather, share and study the art of Yoga. She specializes in advanced therapeutic health and the art of deep listening in yoga and meditation.
Yoga experienced with Sundari connects you to the source of your own radiance, that vibration which reflects your own divinity. Her gift to this life-style of yoga is sensitivity, humor and expertise. With 40 years of study and practice of yoga, Sundari’s instruction is open-hearted and deeply informative holding the highest intention for each student to reveal their own inner light, presence and essential Self.
February 17, 2025 9:30 am PST
March 10, 2025 11:00 am PST
This course is held online. You can participate from the comfort of your home by just using your phone or computer.
Continuing Education
https://somayogaonline.mykajabi.com/teaching-mastery-in-chair-yoga
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