Workshop Outline:

1. About Dementia:

• Understanding dementia

• Brain changes in Dementia

• How communication is affected

2. Therapeutic Approaches in dementia:

• Movement

• The attitude of the yoga practitioner

• Community

• Music

3. Best Practices

• Setting & Environment (incl online)

• The chair

• Arriving and welcoming

• Cueing and communication

• More on observation

• Support

• Music

• Working with others

• Closing

4. Yoga practices:

• Run through the elements of a class (& considerations)

• Practice

5. Questions and closing

In summary we will be looking at: 

1. Understanding

2. Engaging

3. Being of service.

4. The actual yoga practice

Respectively this means:

• Knowing how is communication affected by dementia

• How to connect and engage with your students in class.

• Best practices for effective delivery of chair based yoga classes.

• Asana, pranayama and yoga practices for people living with dementia