Adapting Chair Yoga for Every Body

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.

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.