Chair, Assisted and Special Needs Yoga

Seeing both yoga and meditation as a mind-body “prescription”, the practice of both meditation and yoga lend themself perfectly to the independent and “assisted” population. 

Yoga can be practiced on the floor, at the wall, in a chair and yes, even in bed! Yoga is for all ages and abilities, the practice of yoga is for everyBODY. 

CHAIR YOGA, MEDITATION : Senior community classes, are safe, with modified postures encouraging ones own range of movement and availability, calming and empowering practice. Yoga practiced regularly, increases flexibility and strength and promotes oxygenate revitalize, restore and revigorate. Importantly, balance is challenged (yes, even in chair yoga) through mindful movement and playful creative postures and sequences. The benefits are of yoga are endless - increased circulation, easing tension of mind and body, create flexibility in your spine, strengthen muscles, loosen tension, improves digestion and respiration, massages internal organs, limbers up hips to name but a few!  As a community class within your residence, yoga or meditation classes (or a combination of the two) can be very rewarding as people come together as one- creating a kinder, nurturing and supportive environment to live within. 

YOGA REHAB: YogaRehab is a sector of brookebeyondyoga that works with ones verifying needs and requirements, on a very personal level. This may be an emotional issue of depression, anxiety or insomnia, using a more meditative or mindful practice. Perhaps, its a more physical practice - mindful movement, improving mobility, reducing pain and gaining greater flexibility whilst creating the "gesture” of a pose (yes, a double amputee client can absolutely do tree pose through isometric engagement - if only I could take pictures!)…. the rejuvenating rewards are endless. Working with the body you have, any given day, rehabilitation through yoga practice, hence YogaRehab. 

Please see our schedule page or contact page on brookebeyondyoga to sign up for classes at your residence or one on one privates to suit your timing and your abilities. 

Apart from numerous private clients, locations recently that brookebeyondyoga has recently worked with are:  King Street Rehab, Greenwich; Edge Hill Assisted Living, Stamford; Maplewood, Darien;The Greens At Greenwich; Greenwich Atria, Wilton, Darien, Rye Brook; Burning Tree Country Club, Greenwich; The Nathaniel Witherell, Greenwich and many local libraries, community centers and yoga studios.