Accessible and Adaptive Yoga Training 2025
In this 40 hour course participants will learn how to make yoga accessible to all ability levels while maintaining a fun, safe, and therapeutic environment. Specific attention will be paid to educating on how to adapt chair yoga to various chronic health conditions and diseases. While also learning how to integrate yoga theory and practice into your clinical practice and healthcare settings.
Participants will learn:
- A chair sequence to build upon, videos, & PDF resources.
- The specifics of common health conditions and how yoga can help manage such conditions, improve quality of life, alleviate suffering, and support mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
- How to bring a more holistic and integrated approach to your clinical practice through the system and science of yoga and mindfulness techniques.
- Ways to adapt yoga for the senior body and those with mobility concerns.
- Ways to bring chair yoga class into healthcare and in community settings.
Course Outline
This course will be a combination of online and in-person learning.
32 hours of the course will be accessible through online modules starting after registration opens. In-person practical session will be completed on September 14, 2024. Please inform us if you will not be able to attend the in-person practical session, we will arrange for alternative LIVE online options where possible.
Date & Location
Saturday, April 12th, 2025
9:00am to 5:00pm
Vangool Wellness
3026 Taylor St E, Saskatoon, SK S7H 4J2
Meet the Instructor
Adrianne Vangool is a Physiotherapist and Yoga Alliance Certified trainer, who has been guiding chair yoga classes in Saskatoon since 2012.
Adrianne has trained and mentored several teachers, health practitioners, and educators from across Canada, who now offer chair yoga classes in their communities and facilities.
The evidence regarding the effectiveness of yoga and mindfulness practices on wellbeing is vast. Specifically, more evidence is supporting the benefits of yoga in improving patient outcomes and improved quality of life and management of conditions following surgery, cancer, back pain, and progressive neurological conditions such as MS and Parkinson’s Disease.
All registrations include a copy of "The Journey of Self-Care to We-Care" by Adrianne Vangool
In The Journey of Self-Care to We-Care, Vangool weaves the art and science of the yoga system, inviting the reader to begin a process of seeking to know oneself and better understand the human experience. The often hard-to-understand evidence behind yoga interventions are presented in an accessible way and brought to life through story, poetry, and tangible practices. Vangool shares her lived experience and the experience of others as they’ve walked the healing path to wholeness. Through the Circle of Integration and Reclamation, she outlines a 5-step process utilizing a bio-psycho-social model to help regulate one’s nervous system, reduce pain, and move toward healing, growth, and feeling/being whole.
