£395

12-14 June, 9:30am-4:30pm

ONLINE TRAINING

Advanced Chair Yoga Teacher Training: The Lakshmi Voelker Method

Take your skills further with this advanced CPD in therapeutic chair yoga, designed for yoga therapists, teachers, and healthcare professionals.

Building on the Lakshmi Voelker Method, this course explores chair yoga for 1:1 yoga therapy, group facilitation, and clinical contexts.

Deepen your assessment skills, integrate research-based practices, and complete your training for IAYT approval in Accessible Chair Yoga.

This course provides further skills for using a chair safely and effectively as part of any yoga practice, based on the Lakshmi Voelker Method and integrating relevant scientific research.

Part 2: Further Chair Yoga Skills for Teachers & Therapists

Have you completed the Chair Yoga Teacher Training and want to go further?

This Advanced Chair Yoga Training is designed to deepen your ability to use the chair as a versatile prop in yoga practice and therapy. Drawing on the Lakshmi Voelker Method, this course integrates up-to-date scientific research and practical applications relevant to yoga teachers, therapists, and health professionals.

You’ll learn how to design and deliver therapeutic chair yoga for individual clients and group settings, particularly in healthcare, rehabilitation, and community contexts.

This counts as 21 hours towards your 500 hour Advanced Teacher Training Accreditation with Shanticentre Training School

What You’ll Learn: Advanced Chair Yoga Teacher Training Techniques and Adaptations

This interactive, research-informed course takes place over three days and combines:

• Live group online learning

• Partner and group skills development

• Self-reflection and feedback

• Practical integration of chair yoga in therapeutic environments

Course content includes:

• How to use the chair as a prop safely, effectively, and therapeutically

• Mapping Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga to the Pancamaya Kosha Model

• Developing your skills as a chair yoga teacher and/or therapist

• Using chair yoga as part of a yoga therapy treatment plan

• Further modalities, including qigong and myofascial release

• Scientific research relevant to bringing accessible chair yoga into healthcare and social care settings

• Key safeguarding, inclusivity, diversity, ethical, and legal considerations

  
  

  Who the Advanced Chair Yoga Teacher Training is for and eligibility:

  This advanced chair yoga CPD is designed for:

  • Yoga teachers and yoga therapists

  • Healthcare professionals, carers, and exercise instructors

  • Community workers supporting people with limited mobility or special health considerations

  • Please note: Completion of Part 1: Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Teacher Training is required before enrolling in this course.

In collaboration with Accessible Chair Yoga CIC and The Minded Institute.

Further Chair Yoga Skills for Teachers & Therapists

12-14 June 2026

9:30am-4:30pm each day 

Price £395

Deposit of £50 is needed now to secure your booking. 

Preparation of a case study is recommended but not mandatory to complete this course successfully beyond quizzes and a short practical assessment based on the Lakshmi Voelker Method during the weekend.