About the SunLight Chair Yoga teacher training
Chair Yoga teacher training
Online Chair Yoga teacher training (start and end anytime!). Click to register.
Click here to register for the online course. Start today!
You can complete the course at your own time frame.
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Chair Yoga teacher trainings
Stacie teaches annual Chair Yoga trainings for Sivananda Ashrams in Bahamas, Los Angeles & N.CA + in Bay Area, CA.
Also offering:
What is Chair Yoga?
It is Yoga, using a chair (standing and seated, or both), using the chair as a prop for support.
What is a Chair Yoga class like?
Chair Yoga classes with Stacie (or from Sunlight Chair Yoga videos or books), gives you the full benefits any other yoga class entails: centering, yoga warm ups, yoga exercises & postures, concentration & breathing exercises, guided relaxation & meditation.
What are the benefits and who can participate? Click to read more.
What do you wear?
Anything you want! Shoes or socks optional in Chair Yoga classes.
Chair Yoga at Work
About the Instructor, Stacie Dooreck
Stacie Dooreck, author of SunLight Chair Yoga: yoga for everyone! and Yoga for everyone! books, is a Certified Sivananda Yoga Instructor since 1995, a Kundalini and Gentle Integral Yoga teacher, bringing a wealth of knowledge to her classes. Born into a vegetarian family and taken to ashrams since birth, she is living the yogic lifestyle and sharing it's benefits with others, offering annual Chair Yoga teacher trainings in FL, CA, Bahamas and NY at the Sivananda Yoga Ashrams. Currently she is teaching Chair Yoga for seniors and at companies in Bay Area, CA and is the Stress Management Specialist for the Ornish Heart Disease Reversal Program at Cardiovascular Center of Marin (since 2017) and for Dr. Ornish's Alzheimer's research at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute (2018-present).
Stacie has been featured on KQED/NPR CA Report Radio, CBS Miami Healthwatch 5pm News, Yogiviews Cable TV, Albuquerque Journal, KQED NM News, LA Yoga Magazine, Marin Magazine, Women's World, Alzheimer's Speaks Radio, Body Wisdom with Dr. Michellle Summers podcast and Inquire Within Podcast.
Stacie has been a presenter and instructor for Chair Yoga at corporations, conferences and expos including: NBC Health Expo Miami, Sonoma Yoga Festival, San Francisco Green Festival, New Living Expo CA and FL, meditation at Yoga Journal San Diego, San Francisco and CA and FL conferences, Chair Yoga for Goldman Sachs San Francisco, Genentech, Exelixis Pharmaceuticlas, Genesys, Lyris Inc, Lucasfilms, Healthnet, MacWorld Publishers and Johnson and Johnson National Sales Conference in Miami, FL.
Stacie is a also a Certified Fall Prevention Trainer for seniors and trained as an Enhanced Fitness Instructor (evidence based chair exercises and fitness for seniors including cardio, strength training and stretching).
Online Chair Yoga teacher training (start and end anytime!). Click to register.
- Online videos, 5-60 min classes + practice sessions, online video lectures with slides, PDF handouts & resources
- Self-paced, and unlimited access to all videos and lectures
- Topics include: History and philosophy of yoga, Chair Yoga warm-ups and asanas (poses), relaxation, meditation, yogic breathing (pranayama), anatomy, benefits and contraindications for yoga poses and Chair Yoga adaptions, chanting, mantras, healing affirmations and healing practices, Chair Yoga for seniors, Chair Yoga for chronic illness, Chair Yoga for Alzheimer's and dementia, teaching techniques for all ages, teaching mixed seated and standing in group classes, research studies on Chair Yoga and yoga, Sivananda Yoga and Chair Yoga adaptions, Kundalini Chair yoga modification, marketing, starting up new Chair Yoga classes and much more!
- Includes a Certificate of Completion
- Instructed by Stacie Dooreck, Author of SunLight Chair Yoga books. Stacie is a Certified Sivananda Yoga Instructor since 1995, Certified Kundalini and Integral Gentle Yoga Instructor, Fall Prevention Certified trainer, Stress Management Specialist for Ornish Heart Disease Reversal Lifestyle Medicine, and Advanced studies teacher trained at the SF Iyengar Yoga Institute.
- Yoga is for everyone!
Click here to register for the online course. Start today!
You can complete the course at your own time frame.
Email to bring a Chair Yoga teacher training to your area
Chair Yoga teacher trainings
- Teach Chair Yoga to seniors, those with limited mobility, chronic illness, pre/post surgery, for those wanting gentle yoga adaptions, and modified practices
- Teach at hospitals, assisted living homes, support groups, yoga studios, community centers and companies
- Learn to teach: modified yoga postures using chairs for mixed level classes
- For yoga teachers, OT's, nurses, PT's, caregivers, social workers and for those wanting to learn chair yoga
- Includes a Chair Yoga teaching manual
- Includes a certificate of completion
Stacie teaches annual Chair Yoga trainings for Sivananda Ashrams in Bahamas, Los Angeles & N.CA + in Bay Area, CA.
Also offering:
- Chair Yoga Books
- Chair Yoga private sessions and workshops
- Chair Yoga workshops during 200 and 500 hr Yoga teacher trainings
- Community Chair Yoga classes for libraries and bookstores
- Chair Yoga at health fairs, corporate events and offices
- Online Chair Yoga teacher trainings (dates posted soon)
What is Chair Yoga?
It is Yoga, using a chair (standing and seated, or both), using the chair as a prop for support.
What is a Chair Yoga class like?
Chair Yoga classes with Stacie (or from Sunlight Chair Yoga videos or books), gives you the full benefits any other yoga class entails: centering, yoga warm ups, yoga exercises & postures, concentration & breathing exercises, guided relaxation & meditation.
What are the benefits and who can participate? Click to read more.
What do you wear?
Anything you want! Shoes or socks optional in Chair Yoga classes.
Chair Yoga at Work
- A fun and safe activity everyone can do (weekly, quarterly or at health fairs)
- Comfortable and accessible. (Stay in your business attire!)
- Learn yoga at your desk to avoid repetitive stress injury
- Reduce absenteeism art the work place from stress related illness
- Release neck and back tensioning and computer related injuries
- Learn Chair Yoga with author and teacher Stacie Dooreck, over 25 years of experience, teaching yoga at companies and nonprofits, including: Lucasfilms, bebe stores inc., Genentech, Visa Inc, Gap Inc, Goldman Sachs, Miami and Aventura, FL city employees, San Francisco Public Defenders Office, Genesys, Lyris Inc., Kaiser employees, UNM hopsital employees & Exelexis Pharmaceuticals.
About the Instructor, Stacie Dooreck
Stacie Dooreck, author of SunLight Chair Yoga: yoga for everyone! and Yoga for everyone! books, is a Certified Sivananda Yoga Instructor since 1995, a Kundalini and Gentle Integral Yoga teacher, bringing a wealth of knowledge to her classes. Born into a vegetarian family and taken to ashrams since birth, she is living the yogic lifestyle and sharing it's benefits with others, offering annual Chair Yoga teacher trainings in FL, CA, Bahamas and NY at the Sivananda Yoga Ashrams. Currently she is teaching Chair Yoga for seniors and at companies in Bay Area, CA and is the Stress Management Specialist for the Ornish Heart Disease Reversal Program at Cardiovascular Center of Marin (since 2017) and for Dr. Ornish's Alzheimer's research at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute (2018-present).
Stacie has been featured on KQED/NPR CA Report Radio, CBS Miami Healthwatch 5pm News, Yogiviews Cable TV, Albuquerque Journal, KQED NM News, LA Yoga Magazine, Marin Magazine, Women's World, Alzheimer's Speaks Radio, Body Wisdom with Dr. Michellle Summers podcast and Inquire Within Podcast.
Stacie has been a presenter and instructor for Chair Yoga at corporations, conferences and expos including: NBC Health Expo Miami, Sonoma Yoga Festival, San Francisco Green Festival, New Living Expo CA and FL, meditation at Yoga Journal San Diego, San Francisco and CA and FL conferences, Chair Yoga for Goldman Sachs San Francisco, Genentech, Exelixis Pharmaceuticlas, Genesys, Lyris Inc, Lucasfilms, Healthnet, MacWorld Publishers and Johnson and Johnson National Sales Conference in Miami, FL.
Stacie is a also a Certified Fall Prevention Trainer for seniors and trained as an Enhanced Fitness Instructor (evidence based chair exercises and fitness for seniors including cardio, strength training and stretching).
