You don’t have to be a yoga teacher to take Chair Yoga Teacher Training! The Baby Boomers are turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day! Chair yoga offers an opportunity for older adults or anyone with limitations to remain physically active and also creates a sangha (community) to maintain meaningful connection with others.

Chair yoga is easy to teach virtually as the only home prop needed is a chair!  When we are gathering again post COVID-19, chair yoga can be taught at senior centers, churches, during lunch hour at businesses, and anywhere where there are people and chairs!

Whatever the situation, Restful Mountain Chair Yoga Teacher Training prepares yoga instructors to teach this style of yoga to our growing aging population.

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Topics include:

• Routines that promote joint freedom, healthy breathing, balance, fascial release, and strength
• Sequences that invite movement through the joints, standing work that promotes a healthy gait pattern, and reclined movement for students who get down on the floor
• Research on healthy aging and best practices for working with students 60+ and therapeutic students of all ages
• Instructions on sharing yogic philosophy with students in a way that is helpful and healing for daily living
• Information on setting up a chair yoga class, cultivating your clientele, and promoting a sense of compassion and community within the group
• Leading guided relaxations to help reduce stress and improve wellbeing

The training is structured in two segments so students can complete a case study for learning in between. The workshop provides 15.5 contact hours and 5 non-contact hours of continuing education with Yoga Alliance. ​

Anne worked with her mentor Peggy Cappy, author of Yoga for All of Us, who leads trainings in teaching yoga to adults 50+. Anne also has a Masters in Social Work with a Certificate in Gerontology from the University of Pittsburgh. She was executive director of a non-profit agency working with senior citizens for six years in Pittsburgh.

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Restful Mountain Chair Yoga Teacher Training

Watch this page for the next training in 2026.