CLAIRE OSBORNE​
Yoga, Amerta Movement, Yoga Therapy.
Chair Yoga Teacher Training 2025
Himalaya Yoga Valley, South Mall, Cork, Ireland
In person dates April 11th - 14th
followed by 2 zoom sessions
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Course director and main tutor Claire Osborne
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This 32 hour in-depth training, 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.
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Learn techniques to support physical, mental, emotional and energetic well being.
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Support your students and clients to develop more mobility and confidence in their bodies and in their own wisdom
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Offer a safe, supportive environment where people can have fun, and at the same time learn to care for themselves
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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.
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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.
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COURSE OVERVIEW
Who's it for?
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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.
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About my approach
This course draws from my own background in Hatha Yoga, Somatic movement and Yoga therapy, and 30 years of experience of working with the body through massage and bodywork, yoga, dance and movement. The approach is gentle, mindful and therapeutic, centered around the needs of clients and students.
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Course content
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The content of this course is drawn from Claire’s 20 years of experience teaching yoga, as well as her background as a yoga therapist and massage therapist.
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.
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Overview of chair yoga, it’s applications and target groups
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Practical steps and supports to set up a class and make it accessible
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A wide range of practices including Asana, Pranayama (breathing practices), Mudras, Meditation, Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra, plus therapeutic applications and adaptations.
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Several practice sequences to support creating balanced and creative classes
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Practices for minimally mobile students
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In depth information to support posture
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How to help people develop the skill and confidence to move from the chair into standing.
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Introduction to yogic philosophy relevant to chair yoga classes
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Introduction to therapeutic yoga models as a lens for understanding health conditions and support for planning class plans
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Health and safety tips
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Detailed teaching tips, to support you to hold space in a compassionate and sensitive way
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Trauma sensitive teaching practice
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Introduction to medical and health conditions
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Reflection on emotional considerations in chair yoga
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Overview of the nervous system
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Reflections on Yoga practices as a support for the nervous system, general health and the management of pain.
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Supervised teaching practice
You are expected to commit to a personal practice of chair yoga throughout the course.
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Schedule breakdown
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Course fees
Fees include a 100-page manual, access to recordings, plus your assessment and certification fees.
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Full price: 550 euros to be paid in full before the course starts
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Early bird: 499 euros paid in full before the end of January
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Reduced fee for previous students 400 euros.
Karma Yoga place: 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.
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Fees to be paid in full before the start of the course.
Payment plans welcome. Please get in touch and we can work out a schedule that will best support you.
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Terms and conditions
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This course is open only to fully qualified yoga teachers with previous experience of teaching.
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Payment is due in full before the start of the course.
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The deposit is non-refundable.
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Cancellation policy: no refunds from two weeks before the course starts, or once the course has started.
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If the course has to be cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances you will be offered a refund or an alternative date if available.
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Conditions of completion
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Certificate will be issued on full in person attendance of the course and on completion of coursework.
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All modules, including online classes, need to be attended in person.
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Your Teachers:
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Lead Trainer Claire Osborne (Bio here)
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Guest teacher Louise Curran
Louise guest facilitates the online classes. Louise has been teaching since 2015 both Mat based and Chair based
Yoga. She teaches at The Ananta Yoga Studios in Wicklow Town, The Brockagh Centre in Laragh and various venues
around Wicklow. Louise adapts the classes to the needs of the students present providing modifications where
necessary. This allows each student to work at their own pace within the class. She has trained extensively in chair
and accessible yoga and continues to evolve her skills through ongoing training in Vinyasa Krama.
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‘’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
In person training hours
​Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
23 hours over a long weekend
Assignments
(est. 4 hours)
1. extensive quiz based on the manual
2. Reserach and class design project on a target group of your choice
Two online classes
(3 hours total)
with guest teachers.
Applying chair yoga to specific target groups
Personal practice of chair yoga using the manual,
videos and audio recordings.