Trauma Sensitive Chair Yoga for Mental Health – Liz Oppedijk

Liz’s approach to Chair Yoga focuses on ‘levels of flexibility’, which can empower health professionals, coaches, and counsellors to integrate yoga into their work, benefiting both themselves and their clients.

Liz offers an introduction to bringing adaptive yoga on a chair to those with mental health needs, including inspiration and examples of chair yoga tools that can be  shared with any BODY in any setting.

What the workshop will cover:

An introduction to adapting yoga poses on the chair safely and effectively using the

Lakshmi Voelker method

An embodied Chair Yoga practice (please have a sturdy chair to sit on)

Precautions for chair poses in mental health

Breathing techniques for mental health

Philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics for the mind from a yogic perspective

Practical tips for bringing chair yoga into healthcare, care homes, and other settings

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Understand how chair yoga can benefit your own practice.
• Learn how chair yoga can provide benefits that meet your clients’ needs.
• Recognise chair yoga as an effective tool for mental well-being.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Psychotherapists, coaches, counsellors, and other professionals interested in integrating chair yoga into their work and/or personal life may all follow this course.

What Might Be the Impact of this Workshop?

• It will have an impact on how participants view chair yoga, from simply sitting on a chair to a multi-dimensional modality that supports their own mental health and that of their clients.

RECORDING 

This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE 

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Liz Oppedijk

Liz Oppedijk is co-founder of the social enterprise Accessible Chair Yoga CIC and a leading expert on chair yoga. She is passionate about making yoga accessible to everyone, including those who may not think it is for them. She has taught accessible and chair yoga to people with a wide range of abilities, including those with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, stroke, cancer, dementia, learning disabilities, and their carers.

Liz’s special interests include 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 is co-author of a book on chair yoga, Get Fit Where You Sit: A Guide to the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method, published in September 2023 by Shambhala Publications, and her most recent research article, ‘Reduced Anxiety and Depression and Improved Mood in Older Adults Living in Care Homes after Participating in Chair Yoga’, appeared in the Journal of Applied Gerontology in March 2024.

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