About This Workshop
Increase your knowledge and skills on teaching chair yoga for older adults. During this session, Maria Jones will cover age awareness, take a look at some of the benefits of yoga in the lives of older adults, and share best practices for facilitating yoga classes for this demographic. You will leave with practical tips for teaching safe and effective yoga classes to older adults, like:
- The challenges of an aging population and how yoga can support
- What makes chair yoga a positive intervention in the lives of older adults
- How to facilitate effective and accessible chair-based yoga classes for older adults
Supporting Documents
Slides (PDF)
Transcript (PDF)
About the Author
Maria Jones
I am a yoga teacher and health professional. I am a champion in chair based yoga and adapted yoga movement. As a chronically ill person, I have not always been able to practice yoga with ease. Either in pain, or experiencing fatigue, stiffness and weakness in my body it has not been easy to find yoga classes that accounted for my limited abilities. When I became a yoga teacher I quickly decided to develop teaching skills that make the practice available to those less able, older and chronically ill.
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