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Lakshmi Voelker to Hold a Chair Yoga Certification at the New York Open Center August 21-24, 2012 Emphasizing Senior Fitness
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Huntington Beach, CA (PRWEB) August 08, 2012
Lakshmi Voelker will be holding one of her Chair Yoga Certifications at the NY Open Center August 21-24, 2012. This training is for yoga teachers and practitioners, and healthcare and fitness professionals who are interested in senior fitness, disabled fitness, and exercise for anyone who, for whatever reason, does not do regular exercise.
In this certification, Lakshmi trains the participants to give a one-hour therapeutic chair (seated) yoga class with special emphasis on disabled and senior fitness. She teaches how to individualize postures by adapting postures to differing levels of flexibility. These levels of flexibility make this program unique in chair yoga.
Most importantly, participants come away with the skill to adapt any yoga mat pose to the chair with the varying levels of flexibility (what she terms Chairasanas asana being Sanskrit for pose or posture).
Participants learn the four variations of Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga(LVCY): Single Chair Yoga, Double Chair Yoga, Pair Chair Yoga, and Weighted Chair Yoga. The last is targeted at building bone and muscle mass by using 1-3 pound dumbbells during Chairasanas. This addresses a major fitness issue of sedentary people such as seniors, the disabled, the overweight, and all of us that just sit too much.
Among the Chairasanas participants learn are the sun salutation, the moon salutation, the earth salutation, the warrior series, and classical balance postures. They receive an anatomy overview, a review of the contraindications & precautions for seated poses. In addition, other Eastern modalities are covered.
Program participants receive a 200-plus page illustrated manual, Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga DVD, a certification for 25 hours of teacher training in Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga, and a listing on Lakshmis website to generate leads for LVCY teachers.
Lakshmi Voelker, E-RYT 500, YA, IAYT, has over 40 years in the fitness industry. She created Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga in 1982. Creator of the DVD Get Fit Where You Sit and the CD Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga, she has certified more than 700 teachers nationally and internationally, including health-care professionals at the Mayo Clinic and the New York City Department of Education. She does live certifications all around the United States. She also offers Online Teacher Training over Skype. For more information on all her certification programs, click here.
http://www.getfitwhereyousit.com.
