Everyone would like to age with as much strength and grace as possible. Now, research has confirmed what many yoga practitioners have known for a long time: yoga can have a remarkable impact on your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being as you grow older.
In this six-week course, you’ll learn about how yoga can improve five key components of healthy aging: stress management, strength, flexibility, agility, and balance.
You’ll leave with effective tools to target, adapt, and customize your yoga practice to meet your individual needs and concerns, no matter what your starting point.
If you’re a yoga teacher, this workshop will provide you with many practices and perspectives - including postures, breathwork, philosophy, and meditation - to support your students.
How and why yoga supports healthy aging
Essential yoga poses and sequences for strength, flexibility, balance, and agility
The most relevant and inspiring perspectives of yoga philosophy for fostering emotional and spiritual well-being
Yoga for managing stress, maintaining brain health, and cultivating inner peace
The creative use of props, including chairs, to adapt postures
How to adapt and customize your yoga practice to meet your individual needs and concerns
How to create long-term balance in your yoga practice
Open to students of all levels and to yoga teachers of all styles and levels of experience.
Yoga teachers: This series is eligible for 7.5 CE hours
Five 75-minute classes - available live and recorded.
October 29: Yoga for Strength
November 5: Yoga for Flexibility
November 12: Yoga for Balance
November 19: Yoga for Agility
December 3: Yoga for Stress Management
Plus:
6-month access to the recordings
A comprehensive handout for each class, including the practice sequence (with pictures) and all the information covered.
Barrie Risman, E-RYT-500, is an internationally recognized yoga teacher, public speaker, and author. Her book, Evolving Your Yoga: Ten Principles for Enlightened Practice, is a guide for yoga teachers and continuing students to deepen, expand, and integrate the benefits of yoga in their lives.
Teaching since 1999, Barrie’s alignment-oriented approach to postural practice is grounded in principles of healthy, functional movement. Her events weave together the technical precision of alignment-based practice with principles of yoga philosophy distilled from decades of intensive study and made accessible and relevant to practitioners from all walks of life.
She teaches yoga around the globe through her ongoing classes, workshops, mentoring programs, and trainings, both online and in person. Her work has been featured in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and on CBC Television.