Chair Yoga: support your practice, expand your teaching
One versatile prop. New ways to explore strength, alignment and possibility.
4–6 December 2026 10am–12:30pm & 2pm–4:30pm daily PURE Yoga Ngee Ann City
6 sessions · 2.5 hours each · 15 hours in total Join the full CET or choose individual themes.
Early bird from S$200 per session or S$960 for the full programme.
For your own practice. For the way you teach.
Explore the yoga chair as a tool for refining alignment, making challenging poses more accessible and supporting longer holds.
This training is for practitioners who want to deepen their practice and teachers looking to expand their repertoire. Expect discussion, demonstration and collaborative, hands-on exploration.
Each session stands on its own. Choose the themes most relevant to you, or attend the full 15-hour training for continuing education hours.
What you’ll learn & take away
Confident, practical use of the chair in personal practice, active sequencing, and restorative work alike.
Chair-based sequencing, building sequences that create a safe, supportive container for deepening your own practice or your students'.
Greater body awareness and opening, the chair reveals where you're gripping, compensating, or holding back, letting you engage more fully with each pose.
Precision and refinement, using the chair to isolate technique and target specific areas for growth.
A bridge to your mat practice, chair work that carries over into daily practice in a light-hearted, exploratory way.
Range across levels, regressions and progressions for a variety of poses, including backbends and inversions.
Continuing education hours
The full 15-hour training qualifies for Yoga Alliance CET hours.
CET credit applies to the complete training. Individual sessions are available for personal exploration or focused learning, but do not carry CET credit.
Choose your themes
Three days, six themes. Each session lasts 2.5 hours and can be attended individually.
Day 1 · Friday, 4 December 2026
10am–12:30pm
Chair Basics and Refined Foundation
Explore this session
An exploration of the chair as an alignment tool, establishing structural foundations in standing poses, refining joint stacking and weight distribution, and translating these principles into a dynamic vinyasa practice. Sun salutations, standing postures, and balancing poses are examined through the lens of precise alignment, with the chair supporting exploration of arm balance and inversion actions.
2pm–4:30pm
Twists & Hip Opening
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A study of the chair's role in accessing rotation through the spine and opening the hip joint with anatomical precision. This session examines twisting actions through the mechanics of the spine, alongside targeted work to strengthen and lengthen the muscles surrounding the hips and legs, using longer holds to invite deeper release.
Day 2 · Saturday, 5 December 2026
10am–12:30pm
Arm Balances and Inversions
Explore this session
An in-depth look at the shoulder girdle stability and core engagement required for arm balances, using the chair to refine alignment and build strength safely. This session also covers foundational inversion technique, headstand (Sirsasana) and forearm balance (Pincha Mayurasana), supported by chair-assisted actions that clarify weight distribution and spinal alignment, closing with shoulderstand (Salamba Sarvangasana), plow pose (Halasana), and a restorative savasana.
2pm–4:30pm
Backbends
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A study of spinal extension mechanics and the actions required to backbend safely and sustainably. Using the chair to isolate and refine the actions of the shoulders, hips, and spine, this session explores wheel pose (Urdhva Dhanurasana), Viparita Dandasana, and their variations, with close attention to structural support throughout.
Day 3 · Sunday, 6 December 2026
10am–12:30pm
Advanced Asanas
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An exploration of integrated actions across poses categories, the combined biomechanics of arm balances with inversions, twisting actions layered with backbending, and inversions transitioning into backbends. Using the chair to refine technique, this session includes deeper backbends such as scorpion pose, dropbacks, Eka Pada Rajakapotasana (King Pigeon), and Natarajasana (King Dancer), with attention to sequencing actions safely within the body.
2pm–4:30pm
Chair for Adaptation & Restorative Practice
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A study of how the chair can be adapted to different bodies, including those navigating injury or physical limitation, using props and modifications to preserve alignment while making poses accessible. The session includes a fully chair-supported restorative practice.
Tuition & booking
Early bird ends 4 November 2026. All prices are in Singapore dollars.
Option
Early bird
Regular
Individual session 1 session · 2.5 hours
S$200
S$250
1-day pass 2 sessions · 5 hours
S$360
S$450
2-day package 4 sessions · 10 hours
S$680
S$850
Full programme 6 sessions · 15 hours
S$960
S$1,200
Early-bird pricing will be reflected at checkout.
Before completing your purchase
Select your booking option on this page and indicate the session(s) you will attend in the Notes section.
For Yoga Alliance CET hours, choose and complete the full 15-hour programme.
Please review before booking: no refunds or credits for cancellations from 4 November 2026.
Meet your teacher: Cora Lee
Cora Lee is a 500-RYT yoga teacher based in Singapore with over a decade of teaching experience, spanning studio classes, corporate wellness, and teacher training. Her approach is rooted in applied knowledge building strength and stability as the foundation for range and flexibility and grounded in a deep study of alignment and functional anatomy that supports students at every stage, age, and ability.
This philosophy led her to develop her Chair Workshop/CET, a specialized methodology using the chair as a teaching tool to make alignment, biomechanics, and safe transitions tangible for students and teachers alike. She trained under Patrick Creelman at Pure Yoga, and has studied with Jason Crandell and Judith Lasater, carrying forward their shared emphasis on precision and safety in how she teaches today.
This will be her 8th time running the training in Singapore. She believes yoga is a lifelong practice of learning and loves nothing more than growing and evolving alongside her students.
Before you book
No refund or credit will be given for cancellations from 4 November 2026. All refunds are subject to a 10% processing fee, deducted from your refund.
Read all terms and conditions
This event is open for registration to Public and PURE members.
No refund or credit will be given for cancellation starting from 4 November 2026.
All refunds are subject to a 10% processing fee that will be deducted from your refund.
PURE bears no responsibility for any missed sessions. No refunds or makeup sessions will be provided.
PURE reserves the right to modify the event schedule, content, or venue. Participants will be notified of any changes in a timely manner.
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