Description
An increasing body of evidence demonstrates that yoga offers great health value, and it is beginning to impact healthcare worldwide. This one-day workshop offers Healthcare Professionals, Carers, Care Staff, and Community Workers simple and effective yoga techniques that can be used for oneself and for patients, staff members, residents, and relatives.
By the end of the workshop, participants will know how to demonstrate basic yoga movement, breath, and relaxation techniques that can easily be practised and shown to others. You will learn key postures from each of the main groups, including standing poses, forward and back bends, twists, sun salutations, and simple inversions. We will also look at the importance of postural alignment, the breath, and mindfulness meditation. You will be encouraged to ask as many questions as you like throughout the day, so you come away with a clear understanding of all aspects of a yoga practice.
What the training covers:
• Introduction to yogic philosophical ideas that support well-being.
• Basic yogic techniques.
• Overview of yoga postures, with an introduction to some basic postures and movements, including a series of poses to free up all the major joints in the body.
• Introduction to simple relaxation techniques, breathing exercises, and the benefits.
Who the training is for and eligibility:
For those who want to go further, this workshop provides the background and knowledge to follow the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Teacher Training course, and it fulfils the prerequisite for those without a yoga teacher qualification.
Teacher
Liz Oppedijk is co-founder of the social enterprise Accessible Chair Yoga CIC and a leading expert on chair yoga. She is passionate about bringing yoga to those who may not think it is for them, and has taught accessible and chair yoga to people with a wide range of abilities, including those with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, stroke, cancer, and other conditions, as well as those with dementia or learning disabilities, and to their carers.
Liz’s special interests are training a community of chair yoga teachers to bring yoga to care homes across the country and carrying out research into yoga’s effectiveness in the social care and healthcare sectors. She is a qualified yoga therapist and regularly lectures on accessible and chair yoga, yoga for Parkinson’s and dementia, and yoga in care homes for The Minded Institute and other organisations.
Liz is an official Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga teacher trainer and a regular facilitator for Jivana Heyman’s Accessible Yoga training. She has co-authoring a book on chair yoga, titled ‘Get Fit Where You Sit: A Guide to the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method‘, published by Shambhala Publications and out now, and it can be ordered from Amazon. Learn more about the book here.