CHAIR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING 2025
Accessible, Inclusive, and Transformative Movement for Every Body!
September 12th-14th & October 10th-12th
Friday eve 7-9pm, Saturday 11am-5pm, and Sunday 12.30 - 5pm with Claire Osborne
This 30 hour in-depth, professional development training for Yoga Teachers will give you the knowledge, understanding and skills to run safe, inclusive, client-friendly chair yoga classes, adapt classes for various care settings, or to integrate chair yoga into your regular teaching.
Learn techniques to support physical, mental, emotional and energetic well being.
Support your students and clients to develop more mobility and confidence in their bodies and in their own wisdom
Offer a safe, supportive environment where people can have fun, and at the same time learn to care for themselves
Learn how to apply chair yoga in numerous settings, such as active retirement groups, wheelchair users, community groups, people with special needs and for people with limited movement due to health, injury or recovery from surgery.
Learn to be creative and adaptive in your approach to teaching, so that you can offer accessible, inclusive classes led by the needs of your students and clients.
Course overview
Who's it for?
For fully qualified yoga teachers and yoga therapists from all yoga lineages and levels of experience.
For yoga teachers interested in a therapeutic approach to yoga, and in yoga therapy, this course provides an excellent introduction.
For healthcare professionals who wish to apply the practices to support clients in healthcare settings and complement your existing skillset. Previous experience of Yoga is essential and this training is not a standalone Yoga teacher training qualification. If you'd like to offer yoga classes, you will need a full 200 hour training.
‘’I highly recommend this training course of Claire's. For me already teaching Chair Yoga, it gave me lots of new ideas and reinforced my passion and reason for teaching Chair Yoga. Suitable for experienced Chair Yoga teachers, as well as anyone who'd like to begin and non-Yoga Teachers who work in an environment where people could benefit. ‘’ Louise, Chair Yoga Teacher, Wicklow
Course approach and philosophy
This course draws from 30 years of experience in bodywork, Hatha Yoga, somatic movement and Yoga therapy. The approach is gentle, mindful and therapeutic, centered around the needs of clients and students. Because many students and clients who attend chair yoga classes have specific physical needs and medical conditions, the course emphasises a safe, inclusive approach where students are given agency and choice. Mental, emotional and energetic well being are considered as part of the training, to create a truly holistic approach.
Schedule breakdown
In person training hours: 23 hours Friday - Monday
Two online classes (3 hours total) with guest teachers: Applying chair yoga to specific target groups
Assignments (est. 4 hours)
1. Extensive quiz based on the manual
2. Research and class design project on a target group of your choice
Personal practice of chair yoga using the manual, videos and audio recordings.
COURSE CONTENT
Claire has given careful attention to the delivery of this course, to ensure that experienced as well as new teachers complete it feeling informed and confident to design and deliver empowering, creative and sensitive classes in a variety of settings.
Overview of chair yoga, it’s applications and target groups
Practical steps and supports to set up a class and make it accessible
A wide range of practices including Asana, Pranayama (breathing practices), Mudras, Meditation, Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra
Therapeutic applications and adaptations of practices
Examples of practice sequences to support you in creating balanced and creative classes
Practices for minimally mobile students
Supporting postural awareness
How to help people develop the skill and confidence to move from the chair into standing.
A variety of seated and standing asana.
Introduction to yogic philosophy relevant to chair yoga classes
Introduction to therapeutic yoga models as a lens for understanding health conditions and support for planning class plans
Health and safety tips
Detailed teaching tips, to support you to hold space in a compassionate and sensitive way
Trauma sensitive teaching practice
Introduction to some relevant medical and health conditions
Reflection on emotional considerations in chair yoga
Overview of the nervous system
Reflections on Yoga practices as a support for the nervous system, general health and the management of pain.
Supervised teaching practice
You are expected to commit to a personal practice of chair yoga throughout the course.
Course FEES
Fees include a 100-page manual, access to recordings, plus your assessment and certification fees.
Deposit of £100 reserves your place, please contact us if you wish to place a deposit and discuss a payment plan.
Full price: £475 euros to be paid in full before the course starts
Early bird: £435 euros paid in full before the end of July
Karma Yoga place: I offer one reduced fee place available for someone in financial need, in exchange for practical support during the course.
Please get in touch with Claire about this opportunity.
Fees to be paid in full before the start of the course.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This course is open only to fully qualified yoga teachers with previous experience of teaching.
Payment is due in full before the start of the course.
The deposit is non-refundable.
Cancellation policy: no refunds from two weeks before the course starts, or once the course has started.
If the course has to be cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances you will be offered a refund or an alternative date if available.
Conditions of completion
Certificate will be issued on full in person attendance of the course and on completion of coursework.
All modules, including online classes, need to be attended in person.
SEPT. 12th - 15th (Friday - MONDAY, 9AM- 5pm)
EARLYBIRD PRICE ONLY £435*
*Contact us if you wish to secure your place with a deposit, and require a payment plan.
ABOUT CLAIRE
Claire is a trauma-informed teacher, trainer, guide and therapist working with the tools of therapeutic Body work, Embodied Movement, Yoga and Creativity for over 30 years. She is committed to ethical, accessible and inclusive Yoga teaching and practice.
She has been following a passion for well-being and awareness through the body, mind and heart since the early 1990's, studying with renowned teachers, and wisdom carriers here in Ireland and worldwide. With over 23 years of Yoga teaching experience, Claire has been a registered IYN as a Yoga Elder since 2021. Her studies have also led her to specialise in teaching Amerta movement, a form of free-form movement meditation (like dance, but without steps to learn) , which she studied for 23 years with it’s founder Suprapto Suryadarmo. She has recently completed an MA in Art therapy.
Claire has been a Yoga therapist since 2012. She supervised trainees on Yoga Campus’ Yoga therapy training for 7 years, was a course designer, trainer and advisor for the Yoga Mandala Project’s trauma informed yoga training, and through that organisation worked with refugees in the Middle East and Greece. She has been a guest lecturer for UCC’s School of Sports Medicine.