Upcoming Training & Classes
Purchase our new book – Get Fit Where You Sit: A Guide to the Lakshmi Voelker Method – available now!
Book NOW – Online CPD: Basic Yoga Techniques for Health Professionals on 3 November 2024
Book NOW – Online CPD: Accessible Chair Yoga for Yoga Therapists (Parts 1 and 2) on 22-24 November 2024
What do we do?
Our non-profit social enterprise offers training in chair and accessible yoga to individuals and organisations – especially those in yoga, healthcare, social care, and fitness – who want to share yoga’s benefits with those who need or want adaptive yoga.
- We deliver training for teachers to lead sessions in specialist chair yoga.
- We provide chair yoga resources to support and improve health and wellbeing.
- We sponsor research into yoga’s effectiveness in the healthcare and social care sector.
How can we help?
- If you are interested in training to become a Chair Yoga Teacher, take a look at our Training courses.
- If your organisation would like to offer training in Chair Yoga, or simply find out more about Chair Yoga, have a look at our Training courses and get in touch to discuss.
- If you are a care home interested in bringing chair yoga to your residents and staff, take a look at our Research and Yoga in Care Homes services.
- If you want to experience Chair Yoga now, sign up for our Free Chair Yoga Classes!
Yoga is part of an ancient meditative practice originating in India. Yoga postures exist to help deepen meditation, while their broader health benefits for strength, flexibility and balance are now widely recognised.
For many people, the image of the bendy young woman on a yoga mat suggests yoga is not for them. Accessible yoga brings the practice of yoga and all its benefits to everyone.
Chair yoga is … well, yoga! It is yoga adapted for the chair, retaining all the qualities and benefits of conscious breathing, purposeful movement and mindful meditation. Chair yoga is ‘infinitely adjustable’. This means that every posture can be done to a level that suits the user. Any style of yoga can be practised on the chair, from gentle restorative yoga to the most athletic.