Chair Yoga - Dora Phillips Hall - Community Learning

About this course

This course will enable learners to consider how to improve their health and well-being whilst learning how yoga through chair-based exercise. This course is aimed at people who want to try to improve their health and wellbeing in a safe way and maybe less mobile than others. 

The course will cover: 

• The original Purpose of Yoga, 
• Its origins and modern-day perspective, 
• Quality Breathing, 
• How yoga can help stress and enable improvements in health.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course? What are your learning outcomes? 

•  Learner will identify the elements of chair yoga that can be practiced at home to help them improve their physical and mental health. 

What skills or knowledge do learners already need to have to attend the course? 

• No previous knowledge required. Open to all abilities. 

What should learners bring?

• Comfortable clothing which allows movement.  Learners will be encouraged to remove their shoes as contact with the ground is important. 

Suggested Reading for the course:

• Yoga at any Age, 10 Minute Yoga Calm, Yoga for People who Can’t be Bothered to do it. Planet Mindful. All available through the Libby app 

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course  please visit our webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking.  If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

Any questions?

Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:

• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: learning@inspireculture.org.uk

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