Adapting Chair Yoga for Every Body - by Finlay Wilson (Paperback)

About the Book

"A guide to adapting your yoga teaching for clients with mobility issues or difficulty standing, or anyone who needs to use a chair for their yoga practice"-- Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

Open your yoga practice to every body with this essential guide to accessible chair yoga. Based in the author's years of experience working with amputees and people with disabilities of all types, the book expands the movement vocabulary, creating space to adapt poses and movements for your students' unique accessibility needs.

From backbends and twists to core work and balancing poses, every part of each sequence is approached with adaptability in mind, allowing teachers and students alike to focus on what they can do, whatever their physical ability or requirements. The book offers suggestions on how to begin your practice, breathwork, and meditation, as well as sample sequences and teaching plans to help you carry the principles of adaptive yoga into your future classes with flexibility and openness.

Review Quotes

Finlay Wilson's chair yoga book is a gem-accessible, inclusive and full of playful energy. With clear, easy-to-follow instructions, it empowers everyone to move, stretch and connect with their body, no matter their ability or experience. Loved it!--Shelley McCarthy, Chief Officer of NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation

Discover the power of yoga-no mat required. This book offers a welcoming, step-by-step guide to modified poses that can be done seated or standing with support, making yoga accessible for people of all ages, abilities, and mobility levels. Whether you're easing back into movement, living with chronic pain, or simply looking for a gentle, grounding practice, this book empowers you to stretch, strengthen, and breathe with confidence-right from your chair. If you thought yoga wasn't for you, Finlay's book will make you think again.--Bill Taylor, Advanced Practice Pelvic Health Physio, author and educator

It's easy to be intimidated by the yoga imagery we see--people doing seemingly impossible physical acts. But yoga really is for everyone, if we can find a way into the practice. Chair yoga is particularly helpful in this regard. You might even say chair yoga is magic, and Finlay Wilson shares the magic of chair yoga so beautifully here. Most of us can imagine ourselves doing some gentle stretching and breathing in a chair. That's the key, just being open to the possibility. Once we start practicing, yoga does the trick. We just do some simple movements, connecting the breath with the body, and as if by magic a sense of peace and calm comes over us out of nowhere. Like a magician, pulling a rabbit out of his hat, it seems like that peace just appears from nothing. The thing is, the rabbit was there all along hidden inside the hat. Our peace is like that rabbit. It's hidden from us, but it's always there just under the surface waiting for us to do some yoga to expose our true nature.--Jivana Heyman, author of Accessible Yoga

About the Author

Finlay Wilson is a yoga teacher and the CEO of Heartspace in Dundee, a charity that develops yoga programmes, community work, and outreach for the people of Dundee and Scotland. Through his leadership over the last 12 years, a diverse community has formed with physical challenges from physical disability, limb loss, and additional support needs.