If you're really interested in therapeutics you should look into Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy www.pryt.com. I was trained in classic Iyengar style so there was lots of emphasis on alignment, therapeutics, restorative, etc. and then of course workshops are great.

Good luck,
-Liz

Lynn,

Ahhh okay, now I see you're not actually teaching yoga to them. duh. :) What are you going to talk about? Are you going to talk about the generalities of how yoga is beneficial or do you want to get into more depth about how certain poses can help certain ailments?

There's one woman in my teacher training who taught yoga to seniors at the local senior center. She also taught through the local parks and rec. Those may be two areas you wouldn't think offered classes. You could call around and see if they have anything in your area.

If you haven't already, The International Association of Yoga Therapy has great resources. www.iayt.org You can search the publications under yoga heatlh bibliographies and yoga studies to see the specific ways yoga helps.

I also love the book Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis, A Journey to Health and Healing by Loren M. Fishman, MD, & Eric L. Small. It's great for people with any type of limited mobility, not just MS. I've used it quite a bit...again don't know what you're talking about in your lecture but the book talks a lot about the physiological benefits as well as showing restorative, chair, and wheelchair poses. A quote from the book is, "It is intended for people with MS and other neurological conditions, people who undertake yoga on their own, and for members of the medical and yoga communties." It goes into how yoga helps different populations physiologically, without overloading your brain.

Since your area doesn't have yoga therapy or senior yoga, maybe you (and they) would benefit from you offering it. I have no idea if you're into that but maybe this is the opportunity that's expanding your horizons. :):)