Description

As people age, risks of falls rise. The most cost-effective investment in avoiding care costs (£1000 – £1700 a week for a care home) is to learn stability exercises. Yoga teachers can hugely contribute to students being stable, steady and keep upright. Chair exercises aren’t enough. 

Anna teaches the Otago Falls prevention programme and Get Up and Go exercises - proven to lower incidence and severity of falls. Tips for general classes and private lessons in postural stability instruction. 

Anna Semlyen has a Level 2 Falls Prevention Awareness cert. 

Extensive handouts & links to research evidence, videos and hatha yoga – postures, breathing and meditation, especially on reducing fear are included. 

Additional Information

Anna Semlyen is co author of Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs 

BWY National Level Specialist Advisor on Back Care and Therapeutic Yoga research. www.yogaforbacks.co.uk has a 4 min video and links to the free pdf of research paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine, one of the world’s top five medical journals. Extensive beautiful colour photographic handouts. Links to videos. Book and Relaxations MP3 or CD co-authored by Trewhela and Semlyen. 

The organiser is Vashti Greenwood.

Please add the organiser’s email to your contacts so your device security does not repel important pre-event bulk messages.

The SE does not record online meetings to protect tutor copyright, and each participant’s personal identity so please book if you are willing to commit to attend live. 

The refund policy can be found in the Policies section of the national BWY website. 

What to Bring

Please bring your yoga kit, including a mat, 1 inch block, 2 inch block, belt, blanket without tassles and water.