A practical interactive CPD to guide yoga teachers in understanding how bodies, brains, and beliefs change with age, and how to integrate evidence into their teaching.
July 1st 2026.
11.00am - 1.00pm LA | 2.00pm - 4.00pm NYC | 7.00pm - 9.00pm London
Can’t join live? No problem! Register now and you’ll automatically receive the replay after the workhop. The replay will be available for 30 days.
Aging is often presented as a story of inevitable decline, increasing pain, fragility, and loss of capacity. These narratives are deeply embedded in healthcare, fitness, and movement spaces, and they shape expectations long before biology does.
This workshop challenges those assumptions.
Demystifying Aging is an evidence-based, teacher-focused workshop that explores what actually changes with age, what remains adaptable, and how beliefs, movement exposure, and teaching practices influence long-term physical and cognitive capacity.
Rather than framing aging as something to be slowed down or feared, this workshop reframes aging as a dynamic, variable process shaped by context, behaviour, and experience.
What this workshop covers:
What aging is, and what it is not
The difference between normal biological aging and pathology
Why variability between individuals increases with age
How beliefs and expectations influence physical and cognitive outcomes
Brain aging, neuroplasticity, and what remains trainable across the lifespan
Dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease, discussed without fear-based framing
Muscle, bone, tendon, and connective tissue adaptation with age
Why strength, balance, power, and challenge matter for healthy aging
The changing role of women and resistance training later in life
Where yoga supports healthy aging, and where it needs supplementation
Throughout the workshop, common myths around fragility, decline, and “being careful” are examined critically, with a focus on replacing fear-based narratives with practical, evidence-informed teaching principles.
Who this workshop is for:
This workshop is designed primarily for yoga teachers and movement educators who want a clearer, more confident understanding of aging bodies and brains.
It is especially relevant if you:
Work with older students or mixed-age classes
Feel uncertain about strength, loading, or challenge in aging populations
Want to teach in a way that builds confidence rather than reinforces fragility
Are interested in evidence-based approaches to healthy aging
What you’ll gain
By the end of the workshop, you will have:
A clearer understanding of how aging actually works
Greater confidence working with aging students
Practical frameworks for supporting strength, balance, and adaptability
Language and teaching strategies that promote capacity rather than caution