Costa Yoga School: Mindful Chair Yoga Teacher Training

This training is for yoga teachers who want to expand their offerings to reach students of any ability, especially those working with seniors, school groups, desk-bound adults, or students managing injury, disability, or chronic illness. It assumes participants already have a foundational teaching background.

The curriculum covers what chair yoga is, necessary props, safety considerations, and foundational context including the Eight Limbs of Yoga, mindfulness principles, equity in yoga, scope of practice, and anatomy for seated practice. You’ll learn to structure a full chair yoga class: class outline, creating a safe space, setting themes and intentions, and optional opening Om. Practices include pranayama, meditation, yoga for the face and eyes, self-massage, warm-ups, sun salutations, upper- and lower-body postures adapted to the chair, and closing practices like a final wish and optional chanting. The training also provides four full practice video libraries: Energy and Focus, Rest and Relaxation, Flexibility and Mobility, and Strength and Stability.

The program is taught by Mandy Lawson, founder of Costa Yoga School and an E-RYT 500, RYCT, and YACEP-designated teacher with more than nine years of yoga teaching experience and over twenty years in the health and fitness industry. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and is a certified Hypnotherapist.

The course is fully self-paced and pre-recorded. You can enroll at any time, progress at your own speed, and return to the material whenever you want — access is for life. Payment plans are available at checkout.

The curriculum covers what chair yoga is, necessary props, safety considerations, and foundational context including the Eight Limbs of Yoga, mindfulness principles, equity in yoga, scope of practice, and anatomy for seated practice. You’ll learn to structure a full chair yoga class: class outline, creating a safe space, setting themes and intentions, and optional opening Om. Practices include pranayama, meditation, yoga for the face and eyes, self-massage, warm-ups, sun salutations, upper- and lower-body postures adapted to the chair, and closing practices like a final wish and optional chanting. The training also provides four full practice video libraries: Energy and Focus, Rest and Relaxation, Flexibility and Mobility, and Strength and Stability.