Teaching Yoga To Support The Aging Process

This insightful webinar is designed for yoga teachers, caregivers, and practitioners interested in supporting the aging population through yoga. This session explores how to approach yoga in a functional, safe, and compassionate way to enhance the well-being of aging adults.

How Teaching Yoga Can Support the Aging Process 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Modify yoga safely for all abilities and medical needs
• Support joint mobility, bone density, and fascia health
• Boost cognitive and emotional well-being in older adults
• Use props to enhance comfort and safety
• Address emotional challenges of aging, like loss
• Foster resilience with a compassionate, holistic approach
• Create empathetic, age-honoring yoga experiences

In This Webinar: What You'll Learn

Yoga therapist and teacher Sam Sathers will discuss a few different elements of how yoga can support the aging process, and cover: 

• Functional Approach: Learn to teach yoga safely for all body types and abilities, with a focus on adapting movements to accommodate medical considerations like joint replacements, surgeries, and other chronic health concerns.
• Skeletal and Fascial Systems: Explore how yoga can support joint mobility, bone density, and fascia health, especially in the face of common aging concerns like arthritis or osteoporosis.
• Cognitive and Emotional Health: Examine how yoga positively impacts cognitive function, emotional regulation, and overall mental well-being in older adults.
• Propping: Master the use of props to offer support, enhance comfort, and ensure safety in yoga poses.
• Impermanence, Loss, and Fear: Delve into how yoga philosophy and practice can help address the emotional challenges of aging, including fear of loss and confronting impermanence.
• Mind-Body-Heart Approach: Cultivate a teaching style that fosters compassion and nurtures the mind, body, and heart, allowing practitioners to embrace aging with grace and resilience.

Further, this webinar will provide practical tools, inspiration, and knowledge to help you create meaningful yoga experiences that honor the aging process with empathy, safety, and care.

About Sam Sather 

Sam Sather is a certified yoga therapist and yoga teacher that for the last 30 years has focused her work to help individuals uncover the wisdom of their bodies and mentor teachers who wish to do the same. Sam integrates skeletal and fascial variation, functional movement, interoception, meridian movement stimulation and psychological inquiry in yoga and meditation sessions.

For many of Sam's workshops or trainings, teachers can apply for CEUs for the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and Yoga Alliance. She offers an in person and/or remote intern program for teachers through her studio, Dogwood Studios.

Additional Resources

• Osteoporosis and Yoga Workshop
• Book Resource: Duke Integrative Medicine – Yoga for Seniors
• Dogwood Studio Yoga Internship