About this event
Liz’s Chair Yoga focusses on ‘levels of flexibility’, which provides health professionals, coaches and counsellors with the structure and confidence needed to understand how chair yoga can benefit both themselves and their clients.
Liz offers tools and inspiration for tapping into each your own creativity when bringing chair yoga to those who need it, sharing the benefits with every BODY in yoga studios, leisure centres, hospitals, schools, care homes, community settings, and offices as well as at home.
What the workshop will cover:
How to adapt poses on the chair safely and effectively using the
Adapted poses on the chair for Single, Double, Pair, Weighted, and Wheelchair Yoga
Precautions for chair poses in mental health
Breathing techniques for mental health
Philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics for the mind
Class sequencing and teaching techniques
Extra modalities, including acupressure, reflexology, and Do-In Chinese self-massage
Practical tips for teaching chair yoga in healthcare, care homes, and other settings
Who is for and eligibility:
Psychotherapists, coaches, counsellors and more may all follow this course.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Understand how chair yoga can be beneficial for your own practice.
- Understand how chair yoga can be beneficial for your clients needs.
- Understand how chair yoga can be an effective tool for mental well-being.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Psychotherapists, coaches, counsellors and more may all follow this course.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- It will have an impact on participants’ practice by transforming how they see the practice of chair yoga as one from simply sitting on a chair to one of a multi-dimensional modality with the ability to support their own mental health and 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.
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 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 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 research on yoga in care homes and mindfulness for Parkinson’s is due to be published in 2024.
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