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Discovery Yoga Teacher Training
Lakshmi Volker Chair Yoga Teacher Training

Lakshmi Voelker

Chair Yoga

Teacher Training

September 23-26, 2022

Saint Augustine, Florida


Friday 7:00-9:30pm
Saturday-Monday 9am-12:30pm & 2-6pm


25 CEUs


A certificate is awarded at the conclusion of the program. Your certification will enable you to teach a one hour Chair Yoga class with knowledge and confidence to a varied audience.


This program is ideal for health care professionals, yoga teachers and yoga practitioners, or anyone else interested in teaching chair yoga.


Prerequisites: at least 15 hours of yoga classes with a certified yoga teacher

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Tuition: $625

($575 early registration paid in full one month before the start date.)


   Tuition includes:

  • Teacher Development manual (over 2oo pages with illustrations)
  • Access to website containing seven 30-minute training videos, DVD, and CD.
  • Rights to resell the DVD and CD at a discounted price to you
  • Electronic attachments to manual (75 pages with pictures)
  • Electronic version of Sun Salutation booklet
  • Electronic version of marketing materials
  • Certificate qualifying you to teach one-hour chair yoga classes
  • Certificate qualifying you for 25 CEUs from Yoga Alliance

Who Needs Chair Yoga?

Do you have students, patients, or clients that would benefit from doing Yoga but:

  • cannot get down on the floor because of age, handicap, or inflexibility?
  • want to practice yoga where getting on the floor is impractical (at work, traveling, etc.)


These populations have traditionally been unable to reap the exceptional benefits mat yoga brings to the body, mind and spirit. Now you can open this wondrous world to a new audience.

What will you learn?

In this four day program, Lakshmi will add a new dimension to your teaching and/or care-giving. The 25 hour teacher certification will provide you with a firm foundation for teaching Chair Yoga. The 25 hours qualify for Yoga Alliance continuing education credits.

Along with meditation/relaxation, breathing, acupressure, and the use of light weights to build bone and muscle mass, you will learn how to adapt classical Yoga asanas to the chair (vs. the floor) applying the Lakshmi method — what Lakshmi terms chairasanas.

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Lakshmi will introduce a wide variety of reading and viewing materials.

In this training, you will learn to:

  • Teach a one-hour therapeutic chair yoga class:
    • Choose appropriate postures and breathing techniques according to individual needs
    • Adapt postures to differing levels of flexibility
    • Understand precautions and contraindications for poses and breathing techniques
    • Include other Eastern modalities to improve health and well-being.
  • You will learn chairasanas for:
    • sun salutation
    • moon salutation 
    • earth salutation
    • warrior series
    • classical balance postures
    • other yoga asanas
    • anatomy overview
    • contraindications & precautions for chairasanas
  • In addition, during the 4 day (25 hours) program, you will learn the chairasanas for:
    • Double Chair Yoga™ (each student uses two chairs)
    • Pair Chair Yoga™ (two students, each on their own chair, working together as partners)
    • Weighted Chair Yoga (each student employs appropriate weights as part of their Chair Yoga practice)
  • You will also learn additional Eastern disciplines and modalities such as:
    • Pa Tuan Chin
    • Chinese Arthritis Relief Hand Movements
    • Acupressure knee strengthening exercises
    • Breathing techniques for meditation/relaxation and asanas
    • 7 Chakras and their meanings, colors, sounds, and affirmations
    • 5 Yamas and 5 Niyamas
    • Do-In Chinese Self Massage and Foot Reflexology

CANCELLATION POLICY
All refunds will be charged a 10% cancellation fee.

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