Program Type: Online Training Course
Date & Time: Jan 22-24 & 29-31, 2021
Weekend 1
Class 1: Friday, Jan 22 – 4:00 – 7:30 PM
Class 2: Saturday, Jan 23 – 12:30 – 5:00 PM
Class 3: Sunday, Jan 24 – 12:30 – 5:00 PM
Hours: 12.5 hours
Weekend 2
Class 4: Friday, Jan 29 – 4:00 – 7:30 PM
Class 5: Saturday, Jan 30 -12:30 – 3:30 PM
Class 6: Sunday, Jan 31, 12:30 – 3:30 PM
Hours: 9.5
Total Hours: 22 hours
All times listed in Eastern Standard Time
Minimum 6 students, maximum 21
Description:
Yoga is a path for healing, optimal wellness, mental peace, transformation, and spiritual growth that can benefit everyone, regardless of physical abilities. Chair Yoga is a useful way to adapt yoga so that everyone can benefit.
In this training, you will learn how to make yoga accessible to seniors, persons with disabilities or limited mobility, the chronically ill, and those recovering from injuries.
You will learn to teach and offer:
You will also learn about the business and marketing of Chair Yoga so you can teach Chair Yoga online.
Who should take the course: This training is for yoga teachers, nurses, PT’s, MD’s, OT’s, caregivers, and for those practitioners with experience who would like to learn Chair Yoga for their own practice or to share it with others.
Weekend 1
How to teach Chair Yoga Level 1 class.
At the end of the weekend, the students should reach the point that they can teach ⅓ of Level 1 class. Students will learn the sequence and the difference between Level 2 and Level 1. Between the weekend intensives, students will be asked online teach ⅓ of a Level 1 Chair Yoga class to their group. They will record themselves teaching and send the recording to teachers for review and remarks.
Weekend 2
Teach a full Level 1 class and then focus on teaching a Level 2 class. The last two days will be dedicated to teaching an abbreviated Level 2 class (30 min) and teaching a full (45 min) Level 1 class.
Certification: This training includes a digital Chair Yoga teaching manual and a certificate of completion of the Chair Yoga Teacher Training. Upon completion, students will be certified to teach Chair Yoga online. Yoga teachers can earn 16 hours of Continuing Education Units with the Yoga Alliance.
Class Format
*Note: actively participate means having the camera open throughout the whole and each session. In order to miss a session the students will be asked to coordinate this with one of the teachers ahead of time.
Learning Objectives:
The following general topics will be covered in this module:
The students will be introduced to, experience (as a student), and then practice teaching class Level 1. The students will be introduced to and experience (as a student) class Level 2. From Day 2 on, after practicing teaching the students will be provided with feedback on their teaching.
Detailed Objectives:
Day 1
The students will learn:
The students will practice:
Day 2
The students will learn:
The students will practice:
Day 3
The students will learn:
The students will practice:
Learning Objectives:
Detailed Objectives:
Day 4
The students will learn:
The students will practice:
Day 5
The students will learn:
The students will practice:
*Note: Students will have the opportunity to present their challenges so they can get teachers feedback on a specific teaching technique or situation
Day 6
The students will learn:
Individual Work and Project
During the week each of the students will prepare and teach online the rest of the group part of Level 1 class.
Additional Information:
This program is offered live through Zoom webinar with the availability for students to interact through Q&A with the presenter.
For enrolled students, a video recording will be available after each class in the event you miss a class or would like to review the content.
It is possible to register and take the course at any time. You can catch up on any classes you miss with the recordings.
Requirements & Recommendations:
Krishna Chaitanya is a physical therapist, senior staff member of the Yoga Retreat, and senior instructor of Hatha Yoga in the Teacher Training Course and other courses. He has taught for more than 20 years and specializes in working with the elderly population. He teaches Adaptive Yoga, Chair Yoga, and has many years experience helping individuals with all kinds of physical limitations.
Padmavati is a Sivananda Yoga Teacher and manager of the Wellbeing Center at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Nassau, Bahamas. She is an assistant teacher for TTC and Chair Yoga. Her book What’s Possible? Ayurvedic Odyssey: The Year Yoga Changed My Life is the story of living in the ashram for a one year study and her journey to health and wholeness through Yoga and Ayurveda.
Kumari received her Yoga Teacher 200 in 2013. She is an assistant teacher in TTC at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Nassau, Bahamas, and an assistant teacher in online Yoga Therapy Courses and Webinars (Chair Yoga, Adaptive Yoga, Yoga & the Health of the Spine).