Senior Yoga workshop with Patricia Link (in-person & on Zoom)!!

This workshop is intended to provide practice in modifying standard yoga asanas to serve individuals with challenges typical of the older adult population, as for example:

Balance
Gravity
Proprioception
Joint Issues
Osteoporosis
Visual Issues

In this participatory workshop, we will have an opportunity to analyze a number of classic asanas, focusing on “biofeedback”, i.e., the current of bodily sensations in a given pose. Awareness of this current will have been heightened by your experience in teachers’ training and/or by your own personal practice. This biofeedback can be a “ruler” to evaluate the modification.

The program is structured into two segments, the first involving a scenario in which a senior joins your mat class at a studio, spa or gym as part of a student group of varying proficiency. The second involves a class at a center for older adults where the students are in street clothes, doing poses seated on chairs or using chairs as props for standing work.

Patricia is a graduate (500 hours) of the Yoga Teachers Training Institute of Long Island and Queens and is certified in chair yoga by The Sitting Mountain Series (LVCY) established by Lakshmi Voelker. She have 20 years of experience teaching hatha yoga at gyms, studios and fitness centers, and now specializes in chair yoga, working with clients to adapt classic yoga poses and techniques. She presently teaches classes at centers serving older adults in Queens. As a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider, she conducts teacher training workshops.

Patricia’s other professional experience includes a career with the Institute of International Education/IIE in New York City, managing a variety of exchange programs. She also holds a master’s degree from Columbia University in modern Spanish literature.