I believe that every single yoga teacher should know how to instruct a student in a chair and help them navigate class in an accessible and compassionate way. Yoga is an individual journey, even though we often practice as a group. My hope is that this simple pocket guide will help you learn the basics of chair yoga so you have the confidence to assist a student in class who may need a different way of doing yoga.
There is already too much of a stigma around yoga that you have to be skinny and bendy, and able to get into impossible poses to participate. That is most certainly not true. Remember, asana is only one limb of yoga, and is often the first way folks experience it. If we can make it more accessible to everyone, we have an opportunity to raise the collective vibration of the Universe, while empowering the student to THRIVE.