This online workshop will be held over the following two dates:

Saturday, October 11th; 9am-3pm, and

Saturday, October 25th; 9am-3pm

All times are ET (US). In a different timezone? Find out the times here.

If you can't make it live, no worries. Watch the replay! The workshop will be recorded and stored in our course program, Kajabi, for you to revisit time and time again until October 31st, 2026.

This workshop is designed for yoga professionals and mental health professionals but it's open to anyone with an interest in using chair yoga to regulate the nervous system.

Once you have completed the training you can register for 12 CEU hours on Yoga Alliance. Email Stacey at [email protected].

Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists

CA: Credits.Education, #1032827, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Credits.Education maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.  Course meets the qualifications for 10.5 hours of continuing education credits for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

All Other States: Most other states accept CAMFT approved courses for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.  Check with your state board.

The cost for 10.5 Continuing Education (CE) credits will be $40. An email from Credits Education will be sent to all participants who complete the course.

You can find out more about Credits.Education here.

Satisfactory Completion

If you are planning to receive mental health credits for this course, you will need to email us, [email protected] and let us know your name, email, address and qualification. You must be present for both live sessions to receive credit, you must have paid tuition fee, signed in (via telling the co-host privately in the chat box when you arrive), attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation (which will be emailed to you), and signed out (via telling the co-host privately in the chat box when you leave) in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates available after satisfactory course completion at credits.education. 

Refund and Grievance Policy

Refunds are available before October 10, 2025, minus a $30 admin fee. Please email us [email protected]. No refunds will be issued after October 10, 2025. 

Written grievances should include: the individual's name, address, and phone number; the title of the course; and a description of the grievance. The Training Coordinator will seek to resolve the grievance as soon as possible. If necessary, they will bring the complaint to other appropriate Subtle Yoga staff for group consideration. The confidentiality of the individual will be protected as much as possible. A written response, including any necessary action to be taken, will be provided to the individual within 30 days of the date the grievance. A grievance may be resolved by making appropriate changes to future trainings, providing a different training course, or in another way that addresses the individual's specific concern. Records of all grievances, including the decision-making process and final written response will be kept confidentially by Subtle Yoga for a period of three years.

Attendance Policy and Certificate Delivery Information 

Full attendance is a prerequisite for receiving full continuing education credits. Learners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Certificates are awarded after the confirmation of complete attendance.  

Full attendance at every session is a prerequisite for receiving full continuing education credits along with completion of program evaluation form. To be eligible to receive a CE letter of attendance for credit, a participant must: Attendees must attend and participate virtually as they would in-person.

This means that attendees must:

When Zoom Meeting is the format, be visible on screen themselves, not just their name and likeness, during the majority of the CE event.

Participate in group activities including and not limited to break-out groups, polls, etc.

Failure to do so will result in not receiving a CE letter of attendance for credit.

Attendees that are noticeably absent from the event for a 15-minute period of time will not receive a CE letter of attendance for credit. The event monitor will document the attendee's absence.

Complete the electronic post-event evaluation within 96-hours or 4 days of the event. Attendees who fail to complete the evaluation within 96-hours of the event:

Will not receive letters of attendance.

May request, in writing, that their evaluation(s) be reopened and will be required to pay a $25 administration fee at the time the request is submitted. The $25 fee will apply to each survey that needs to be reopened. This option will only be available for 10 business days following the event.

Retrieving Certificates

Certificates will be available through the Credits Education Customer Portal within 1 to 7 days following the end of the course.  

No, there is a strict no refunds policy on live, online Subtle® Yoga trainings.

1. Formulate strategies for introducing chair yoga to skeptical clients by addressing

common misconceptions and presenting yoga as a therapeutic, evidence-based practice.

2. Describe the function of the vagus nerve within the Polyvagal Theory framework, and

articulate why it’s a necessary, but incomplete understanding of mental health, healing

and flourishing.

3. Integrate chair yoga practices that support regulation of the autonomic nervous system

with breath-centric asana practices, and interoceptive awareness.

4. Explain how chair yoga practices modulate autonomic states and lead to psychological

flexibility.

5. Assess how chair yoga enhances interoception and grounding, and describe how these

skills support therapeutic goals such as self-regulation and mindfulness.

6. Employ pendulation and titration principles when guiding chair yoga practices to expand

client resilience without overwhelm.

7. Contrast the dominant Western reductionist biomedical model with a yogic holistic

worldview that includes cosmology, koshas, prāṇa, and relationships.

8. Implement accessible, trauma-informed sequences that support resilience, especially for

individuals with chronic stress, pain, and/or trauma histories.

9. Understand how Chair Yoga can be a brief intervention and adjunctive tool for regulating

anxiety, depression, and trauma-related dysregulation, particularly in a small office

environment.

10. Evaluate some current research evidence on the effectiveness of yoga-based

interventions for clinical conditions.

Part 1  - Saturday, October 11th 2025

9:00-9:15     Welcome and Intro

9:15-9:30     Fun, Brief Practices for Improving Vagal Tone

9:30-10:45     Lecture #1 – Supporting Vagal Toning Endogenously through Yoga

10:45-10:50     BREAK

10:50-11:50     Practice #1 – Chair Yoga for Improving Vagal Tone and Reducing Stress – Grounding, Anchoring, and Resourcing

11:50-12:00     Q and A

12:00-12:30     BREAK

12:30-1:45     Lecture #2 – The Science: Polyvagal Theory and Beyond

1:45-1:50     BREAK

1:50-2:45     Practice #2 – Chair Yoga for Interoception, Proprioception, and Exteroception

2:45-3:00     Q and A

Part 2  - Saturday, October 25th 2025

9:00-9:15     Welcome and Intro

9:15-9:30     Fun, Brief Practices for Improving Vagal Tone

9:30-10:45     Lecture #3 – Subtle Yoga: Principles of Chair Yoga for Self-Regulation – Part 1

10:45-10:50     BREAK

10:45-11:45     Practice #3 – Chair Yoga for Better Digestion

11:45-12:00     Q and A

12:00-12:30     BREAK

12:30-1:45     Lecture #4 – Principles of Chair Yoga for Self-Regulation – Part 2

1:45-1:50     BREAK

1:50-2:45     Practice #4 – Chair Yoga for Better Sleep

2:45-3:00     Q and A

Kristine specializes in teaching holistic, integrated yoga and training teachers to understand how the yogic worldview can change our teaching, our lives and the lives of our students. This workshop isn't just about understanding the vagus nerve, it's about understanding how the vagus nerve fits into the larger picture of yoga cosmology and practice.