Teaching Progressive Chair Yoga with Sundari Lucey, E-RYT 500

February 13-March 12, 2024

Live Zoom Meetings: Tuesdays 9:30am-11:00am Pacific (that's 5:30pm-7:00pm in London)

Everything is recorded if you cant make the time.

15 hours of Yoga Alliance CE

Teaching Progressive Chair Yoga

Whether you are a new teacher looking to add this “star prop” as an accessory or an experienced teacher looking to uplift your capacity and reach a broader population, adding the chair to your classes will engage your students and enhance your yoga offerings. Teaching a yoga class with a chair opens up more space and awareness for alignment, balance, and strength to develop in the body. With a chair, students of all abilities will be able to experience and observe without judgment the ease of mindful postural toning and steadiness of the breath.

In this 4-week course, we will view the broad spectrum of variations with the chair. Students with health challenges, limited mobility, or special needs will benefit.

Adaptations for age-related chronic health conditions such as osteoporosis, arthritis, and cardio-respiratory, and musculoskeletal issues will be explored.

We will also explore how to achieve deeper postures safely for students who are progressing in their practice. You as a teacher will build consistency, commitment, and repetition in your classroom as the use of the chair creates integration, awareness, and actualization of the yoga.

Teachers as well as students are welcome to attend this class. You will need a sturdy chair without arms!

What You Will Learn

Yoga adaptations in a chair to support students with common age-related chronic conditions such as:
- osteoporosis
- balance issues, neuropathy, and preventing falls
- arthritis
- cardiovascular disease
- navigating a distracted mind
Pose modifications, adaptations, and progressions with the support of the chair.
Structural & precise anatomical alignment informed by biomechanics
Living breath awareness as well as Pranayama practices
Insights into how to skillfully teach the aging population
How to advance the student's practice with the chair
Teaching standing, balancing, forward bending and backbending postures with a chair

What's Included?

Four (4) live 1.5-hour zoom calls (all recorded).
Live Zooms on Tuesdays at 9:30am-11:00am PST (that's 5:30pm-7:00pm in London or 12:30pm-3:30pm in New York). Live calls will include practice classes with the chair and/or discussion.
5 hours of pre-recorded content that includes practices and lecture.
Pose modifications, adaptations, and progressions with the support of the chair.
Short homework assignments to deepen your experience as a student and teacher.
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.