Online Workshop: Finding Stability – A Four-Week Chair Yoga Course for Wellbeing and Resilience
£50.00
Date:
Weekly on Tuesdays: 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th September 2026
Time:
7pm - 8pm (each day, UK time)
Join Liz Oppedijk for a four-week chair yoga journey exploring how accessible movement, breath, and mindful awareness can support stability, resilience, and greater connection with the body.
Suitable for all levels of experience, ability, and mobility, the course includes four live online sessions, optional Q&A, and lifetime access to the recordings. You may attend live, participate entirely through the recordings, or combine the two.
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.
Please choose the rate that best reflects your circumstances. Full Rate (£50) and Concession (£40) provide exactly the same course access.
Description
Finding Stability Through Chair Yoga
This four-week chair yoga course offers an accessible journey through movement, breath and mindful awareness. Together, these practices can help us explore how the body and nervous system respond to stress, challenge and recovery, while developing practical ways to support greater ease and self-connection.
In a world that can often feel demanding, cultivating a sense of stability within ourselves can provide a valuable foundation for wellbeing.
Chair yoga is sometimes understood simply as a gentler or modified version of mat-based yoga. The Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method approaches it as a rich and complete practice in its own right: one that can be adapted to the person, rather than asking the person to adapt themselves to a fixed form of yoga.
Using the support of a chair creates opportunities to explore posture, breathing, strength, movement and stillness in ways that are accessible across a wide range of experience and mobility.
A Four-Week Chair Yoga Course That Builds Over Time
Finding Stability is designed as a cumulative four-week journey. Each session introduces a particular theme while developing practices explored during the previous weeks.
Rather than encountering four unrelated chair yoga classes, you will be supported to gradually build familiarity, confidence and awareness. Simple suggestions for home practice will be offered between sessions, allowing you to revisit what you have learned and begin integrating it into everyday life.
You are welcome to attend the workshops live, follow the full course through the recordings, or combine the two. Recordings of all four workshops will remain available to you for life.
Week One: Grounding
Explore the foundations of stability through connection with the chair, awareness of the body and practices that support a sense of steadiness.
We will begin developing skills for settling attention, noticing physical support and connecting with the present moment.
Week Two: Breathing Space
Discover how breath, movement and mindful pauses can help regulate energy and attention.
This session explores accessible practices that encourage balance, responsiveness and a greater sense of ease.
Week Three: Cultivating Resilience
Through a blend of strengthening and restorative practices, we will explore the relationship between effort and ease.
The session invites you to develop adaptability, confidence and trust in your body’s capacity to respond to change.
Week Four: Bringing It Together
Drawing together the central elements of the course, we will explore how movement, breath and awareness can be woven into a sustainable personal practice.
The final session will help you identify practices that can continue to support your wellbeing beyond the four weeks.
Who Is This Chair Yoga Course For?
This course is suitable for anyone interested in exploring chair yoga as an accessible approach to movement, self-awareness and wellbeing.
It may be particularly valuable for:
- People who find getting down to or up from the floor difficult
- Those looking for a practice that can be adapted around their mobility, energy or circumstances
- People interested in nervous system regulation, stress management or recovery from overwhelm
- Those wishing to develop a more compassionate relationship with their body
- People completely new to yoga or chair yoga
- Experienced yoga practitioners interested in exploring a different form of practice
- Yoga teachers, healthcare professionals and carers curious about accessible chair yoga
- Anyone considering further study in the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method
The course is also an ideal follow-on for those who attended the PTSD UK webinar, Finding Stability: Chair Yoga for Trauma and Wellbeing, although attendance at that webinar is not required.
All practices are chair-based and adaptable. You will be encouraged to work in a way that respects your own body and circumstances.
No previous yoga experience is necessary.
What You Will Need
- A stable chair, without wheels if possible
- Comfortable clothing that allows you to move easily
- Enough space around your chair to move comfortably
- Optional: a cushion and blanket for additional comfort
- A device with an internet connection if attending live through Zoom
Live Attendance and Lifetime Access
The workshops take place live online on four consecutive Tuesday evenings:
- Tuesday, 8th September 2026
- Tuesday, 15th September 2026
- Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
- Tuesday, 29th September 2026
Each workshop runs from 7pm to 8pm UK time, followed by an optional period for questions and discussion.
The hour-long teaching and practice portion of every session will be recorded and uploaded to the course area. The Q&A will not be recorded, helping to protect the privacy of participants.
You do not need to attend live to take part. The complete chair yoga course can be followed through the recordings, and your purchase includes lifetime access so that you can revisit the practices whenever you wish.
Continue Your Chair Yoga Journey
Finding Stability is designed as a complete, standalone personal practice course. You do not need to intend to teach chair yoga or continue into further study.
However, if the series inspires you to explore chair yoga professionally, Liz also teaches Part 1 of The Minded Institute’s Accessible Chair Yoga CPD pathway: Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Teacher Training.
Part 1 provides structured professional training for those who want to develop the knowledge, practical skills and confidence to teach accessible chair yoga across different communities and settings.
The four-week Finding Stability course is not a prerequisite for Part 1, but it offers an opportunity to experience Liz’s teaching and the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method through your own practice before deciding whether you would like to take your learning further.
Liz Oppedijk is also co-founder of the social enterprise Accessible Chair Yoga CIC and a leading expert on chair yoga.
Teacher
Liz Oppedijk is co-founder of the social enterprise Accessible Chair Yoga CIC and a leading expert on chair yoga. She is passionate about bringing yoga to those who may not think it is for them, and has taught accessible and chair yoga to people with a wide range of abilities, including those with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, stroke, cancer, and other conditions, as well as those with dementia, learning disabilities, and their carers.
Liz is a qualified yoga therapist and regularly lectures on accessible and chair yoga, yoga for Parkinson’s, yoga for dementia, and yoga in care homes for The Minded Institute and other organisations. Her special interests are building a community of chair yoga teachers who continue to learn and support each other, training yoga teachers and therapists to deliver yoga into care homes across the country, and carrying out research into yoga’s effectiveness in the social care and healthcare sectors.
Liz is an official Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga teacher trainer and co-author of a book on chair yoga, Get Fit Where You Sit: A Guide to the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method (Shambhala Publications). Her research articles on yoga in care homes include: ‘Reduced Anxiety and Depression and Improved Mood in Older Adults Living in Care Homes After Participating in Chair Yoga’, Journal of Applied Gerontology (2024) and ‘Care Home Residents’ Experiences of Participating in Chair Yoga’, Activities, Adaptation & Aging (2025).
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Location
We use Zoom to host these online trainings, for those who do not yet have an account, please visit http://zoom.us and sign up for a free account. Please also test your computer audio and visual to ensure they are working prior to the training start time.
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