On Demand Workshop: Finding Stability – A Four-Week Chair Yoga Course for Wellbeing and Resilience

Description

Course Overview

Finding Stability is a four-part chair yoga course exploring how accessible movement, breath, and mindful awareness can support greater stability, resilience, and connection with the body.

Led by Liz Oppedijk in association with Accessible Chair Yoga CIC, the course draws on the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method, yoga philosophy, and contemporary understandings of the body and nervous system.

Designed as a cumulative series, each session builds on the last. Participants are guided through adaptable chair-based practices while developing greater familiarity with how movement, breathing, and awareness can be integrated into everyday life.

Simple home practices are encouraged between sessions, allowing participants to develop confidence, deepen their experience, and begin establishing a sustainable personal practice over the four weeks.

Learning Focus

This course explores how chair yoga can be used as an accessible and adaptable practice for wellbeing and resilience. Areas of focus include:

• Developing greater awareness of the body and its sources of stability and support
• Exploring how movement, breathing, and mindful pauses can influence energy and attention
• Building confidence through accessible strengthening and restorative chair yoga practices
• Understanding the relationship between effort and ease
• Developing adaptability and trust in the body’s capacity to respond to change
• Using chair yoga to support grounding, self-awareness, and nervous system regulation
• Building familiarity with practices through repetition and progressive development
• Developing a sustainable personal practice that can be integrated into everyday life

Pricing

Minded’s pricing is designed to make these courses accessible to as many people as possible. Please choose the rate that best reflects your circumstances:

• Full Rate: £50
• Concession: £40 for those who need a reduced rate

Both rates include participation in all four live sessions and lifetime access to the recordings. You may attend live, follow the complete course through the recordings, or combine the two.

The course content and access provided are exactly the same at both rates.

Who This Course Is For

This course is suitable for:

• Anyone interested in exploring chair yoga as an accessible approach to movement and wellbeing
• People completely new to yoga or chair yoga
• Experienced yoga practitioners interested in developing a different form of personal practice
• Those looking for practices that can be adapted around their mobility, energy, or individual circumstances
• People interested in nervous system regulation, stress management, or recovery from overwhelm
• Yoga teachers, yoga therapists, healthcare professionals, and carers curious about accessible chair yoga
• Those considering further study in the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method

The course is suitable for all levels of experience and a wide range of abilities and mobility. All practices are chair-based and adaptable, and no previous yoga experience is required.

It is also an ideal follow-on for participants who attended the PTSD UK webinar Finding Stability: Chair Yoga for Trauma and Wellbeing, although attendance at the webinar is not required.

Those wishing to develop the professional skills required to teach chair yoga can continue their learning through Part 1: Lakshmi Voelker Accessible Chair Yoga Teacher Training. This four-week course is a standalone personal practice course and is not a teaching qualification or prerequisite for Part 1.

Format

• Four-part chair yoga course
• Live online sessions on Tuesdays, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th September 2026
• Sessions run from 7pm to 8pm UK time, followed by optional Q&A
• Designed to be taken sequentially
• Each session builds on the previous one
• Includes chair-based movement, breath practices, mindful awareness, and guided practice
• Home practice suggestions provided throughout the series
• Suitable for live or recording-only participation
• Lifetime access to the recordings included with your purchase
• Recordings are uploaded shortly after each live session and remain available for ongoing practice and review
• Q&A sessions are not recorded in order to protect participant privacy
• A certificate confirming four hours of course participation is available upon completion
• This course is for personal practice and does not qualify participants to teach chair yoga
• Recordings are taken from live events. While light edits may be made, some references to participants, questions, or shared materials may remain.

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