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?
- 11 hours of pre-recorded content that includes practices and lecture.
- 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 through her own inner teacher and infinite presence, which guide 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 two-year program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco. Sundari had the privilege of studying with numerous renowned teachers in her early years of training and completed a 17-year circuit with Anusara Yoga, during which she traveled throughout the U.S. and abroad conducting Immersions and Teacher Trainings for certification with many extraordinary students. Together with Brown Earth™, she developed a YouTube channel and produced a DVD titled A Dose of Yoga with Sundari. Throughout her yoga career, Sundari owned and operated three yoga studios up until 2020, providing 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—the vibration that reflects your inner divinity. Her gift to this lifestyle of yoga is her sensitivity, humor, and expertise. With 40 years of study and practice, Sundari’s instruction is open-hearted and deeply informative, holding the highest intention for each student to awaken their own inner light, presence, and essential Self.