Compassionate Senior Yoga Training

This weekend training program, developed by Heather Hagaman and Maryam Ovissi, will cultivate the skills of compassion and understanding for the journey of aging. The skill and art of teaching chair yoga will be one focus of this two-day program. We recognize chair yoga is for everyone and not only for seniors. Feel free to attend this workshop to build skills for chair yoga in general. Props, including the wall, will be used often.

Aging is a natural journey. Today, seniors, aged 65 and older, represent the fastest-growing sector of the population. In the diverse field of Yoga, one of the greatest needs is to offer safe, customized and joyful spaces for seniors to gather, connect and cultivate reverence for themselves and each other.

Training highlights:

• A methodology and sequence structure
• We will overview the principles and guidelines for teaching Seniors
• We will overview common issues for Seniors We will share tools and practices from our compassionate senior toolkit
• We will build skills to customize and offer a range of adaptations over 20 asanas

Certification requirements include: a paper with 3 - 5 takeaways a 20-minute video of a sequence incorporating skills developed from this weekend live attendance of the full weekend training is required

This 3-day training is part of Radiance Yoga's 300-hour teacher training program, however, it is open to all - you do not have to be enrolled in the program to attend. For more information on the 300-hour program please visit our website at www.radiance-yoga.net/300.