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 advanced chair yoga classes that cater to a wide range of student abilities and needs. In this comprehensive training, you’ll learn how to guide students beyond the basics, 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.
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.
- 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.
What's 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.
- In-depth resources and handouts to enhance your teaching toolkit.
- Homework assignments that encourage experiential learning and practical application.
- 15 accredited hours of Yoga Alliance Continuing Education.
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.