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Self-paced guides and references from the Sekond Skin Society Movement Foundation Index, the library behind our Yoga and Fitness Instructor Certifications. Made for instructors and anyone who teaches movement.

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A woman holds a forearm plank on a dark mat in a bright living room, her body in a long straight line from her head to her bare heels. She rests on one forearm and on a black prosthetic forearm and hand, which is strapped on just below her elbow. She has short, curly, teal hair and a small tattoo on her forearm, and wears an olive green sports top and leggings. Behind her are a grey armchair with a white throw, a low wooden shelf and a large potted plant, and a water bottle stands on the floor beside the mat. The Sekond Skin Society logo is in the lower right corner.

Short guides

$79 USD each. Every guide is self-paced, takes about 3.5 to 5.5 hours and comes in Word and PDF, with a knowledge check and a certificate of completion. Sent to the email you use at checkout within 3 business days.

Two women sit on dark mats on a sunlit wooden studio floor, each in a seated twist. In the front, a woman with her brown hair in a ponytail, wearing an olive green sports top and leggings, sits with one leg extended and the other knee bent and drawn in, hugging the bent knee with her opposite arm and pressing her other hand into the mat behind her as she turns to look over her shoulder. Behind her, a woman with long, dark hair in a ponytail, in a rust red long-sleeved top and olive leggings, does the same twist. Tall windows, concrete walls and trailing green plants fill the background. The Sekond Skin Society logo is in the upper left corner.

Teaching blind and low vision participants

Who you're teaching Teaching blind and low vision participants: clear words everyone can follow without seeing you.

Who you're teachingAbout 5 hours, self-paced

Sensory Scripts for Fitness: Teaching Blind and Low Vision Participants

Sensory descriptions and word-for-word teaching scripts for 51 foundational exercises, so every participant can follow from your words alone.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

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Who you're teachingAbout 5 hours, self-paced

Sensory Scripts for Yoga: Teaching Blind and Low Vision Participants

Sensory descriptions and word-for-word teaching scripts for 61 foundational poses, so every participant can follow from your words alone.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

$79 USD

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Teaching classes in a chair

Class format Teaching in a chair: a class format anyone can join.

Class formatAbout 4.5 hours, self-paced

Chair Yoga for Every Body

For yoga teachers leading chair yoga in studios, workplaces, older adult and community programs: chair versions of 61 poses, each with its own seated teaching script, what to feel and safety.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

$79 USD

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Class formatAbout 4 hours, self-paced

Chair-Based Strength

For instructors leading strength classes taught entirely in a chair, in workplaces, older adult and community programs: 51 exercises with chair setup, cues and safety.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

$79 USD

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Teaching wheelchair users

Who you're teaching Teaching wheelchair users: in the chair, on the mat, and everything in between.

Who you're teachingAbout 4 hours, self-paced

Adaptations for Wheelchair Users: Fitness

For instructors working with wheelchair users: options in the chair and on the mat for 51 exercises, moving between the chair and the mat, pressure relief and skin care, shoulder health, and spinal cord injury safety.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

$79 USD

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Who you're teachingAbout 5.5 hours, self-paced

Adaptations for Wheelchair Users: Yoga

For yoga teachers working with wheelchair users: options in the chair and on the mat for 61 poses, moving between the chair and the mat, pressure relief and skin care, shoulder health, and spinal cord injury safety.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

$79 USD

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Amputees and limb differences

Who you're teaching Teaching amputees and people with limb differences: upper and lower limb options with clear cues and safety.

Who you're teachingAbout 4 hours, self-paced

Adaptations for Amputees and Limb Differences: Fitness

51 exercises for upper and lower limb differences, including prosthesis care and safety.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

$79 USD

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Who you're teachingAbout 5.5 hours, self-paced

Adaptations for Amputees and Limb Differences: Yoga

61 poses for upper and lower limb differences, with clear cues and safety notes.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

$79 USD

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Chronic pain and neurodivergent participants

Who you're teaching Teaching people living with chronic pain and neurodivergent participants, across fitness and yoga.

Who you're teachingAbout 5 hours, self-paced

Teaching Through Chronic Pain: Fitness and Yoga

112 fitness and yoga movements, plus pain science language you can use in class.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

$79 USD

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Who you're teachingAbout 4 hours, self-paced

Teaching Neurodivergent Participants: Fitness and Yoga

112 fitness and yoga movements, plus guidance on sensory needs, consent and transitions.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

$79 USD

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Balance and falls

Topic Balance and falls: steady balance work and getting up from the floor, for any class.

TopicAbout 4 hours, self-paced

Balance and Falls: Fitness and Yoga

Balance work, getting up from the floor and supported progressions across fitness and yoga.

  • Word and PDF
  • Knowledge check
  • Certificate of completion

$79 USD

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A woman holds an extended side angle pose on a teal yoga mat in a bright studio with light wood floors. Her front knee is bent, her back leg stretches long behind her, and her lower hand rests on a black yoga block beside her front foot while her top arm reaches up toward the ceiling. She turns her head toward the camera. She has chin-length, curly, dark hair and wears yellow-tinted glasses, a black long-sleeved top, black pants and a black grip sock on her back foot. A white chair stands just behind her. White walls, two tall windows with pale blinds, a gold and cream painting of a seated Buddha and a wall-mounted TV are in the background.

The complete Movement Foundation Index

The full reference library. Every movement is written so you can teach it to every body in your class.

12 months of access, sent within 3 business days.

Included with our Yoga and Fitness Instructor Certifications. Certification participants have access as part of their program. Explore the certifications

12 months of access

Movement Foundation Index: Fitness

115 exercises. Every one has a sensory description, teaching scripts, muscles, cues, common errors, safety, regressions, progressions and adaptive variations for wheelchair users, amputees and limb differences, larger bodies, shorter bodies, neurodivergent participants and people living with chronic pain.

$899 USD

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12 months of access

Movement Foundation Index: Yoga

104 poses with the same depth, plus Sanskrit pronunciation and meaning for every pose.

$899 USD

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12 months of access

Movement Foundation Index: Fitness and Yoga Bundle

Both complete indexes: 115 exercises and 104 poses. Save $499 USD compared with buying them separately.

$1,299 USD

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Take a look inside

Here is a preview of one entry from the Movement Foundation Index: Fitness. Every one of the 115 exercises (and all 104 poses in the Yoga Index) is written with this depth, and the preview shows only part of the entry.

Preview one entry: Calf Raise (Seated or Standing Heel Raise)

Movement Foundation Index: Fitness, preview

Calf Raise (Seated or Standing Heel Raise)

At a glance
  • Plain language: Lifting your heels and lowering them back down, seated or standing
  • Category: Lower Body Strength / Ankle and Calf Strength / Balance
  • Equipment: A sturdy chair for the seated version. Optional: a wall, chair, or rail for balance, a step or block for extra range, dumbbells or a weight across the thighs.
Detailed sensory description (excerpt)

Seated: “You press the balls of your feet into the floor and lift your heels as high as you can, exhaling. You feel the lower part of your calf, deep under the bigger muscle, working. Your pressure stays over the base of the big and second toes.”

Standing: “You press down through the balls of your feet and lift your heels, rising as high as you can control. You feel the backs of your lower legs tighten and work. Your weight stays over the base of the big toe and second toe, rather than rolling out to the little-toe side.”

What you should feel (excerpt)
  • Strong engagement in: Gastrocnemius (upper calf muscle) and Soleus (deeper, lower calf muscle)
  • Throughout the movement: weight centred over the base of the big and second toes; slow, smooth lowering
Teaching scripts (in full)
Seated

“Sit tall in a sturdy chair, or with the brakes on your wheelchair, feet flat and hip-width apart.

Rest a weight or your hands on your thighs.

Press through the balls of your feet and lift your heels.

Pause at the top.

Lower your heels slowly to the floor.”

Standing

“Come to standing, feet hip-width apart.

Rest your hands on a support if you like.

Press through the balls of your feet and rise up tall.

Pause at the top.

Lower your heels slowly back to the floor.”

Adaptive variations (excerpt)
  • Amputees and limb differences, with a prosthesis: “Most prosthetic feet do not point actively, so the sound calf does the lifting while the prosthetic foot stays flat and shares some weight; this is a full version”
  • Larger bodies: “Lead with function: strong calves support walking, stairs, and balance”
Also in the full entry (not shown in the preview)
  • The complete sensory descriptions for both versions
  • What you should not feel
  • Adaptive variations for wheelchair users in the chair and on the mat, amputees and limb differences (upper and lower limb, with and without a prosthesis, residual limb care), larger bodies, shorter bodies, neurodivergent participants, and people living with chronic pain or mobility limitations
  • Muscles engaged
  • Purpose and functional benefit
  • Key alignment cues
  • Common errors
  • Contraindications and safety
  • Regressions
  • Progressions

Plus, in every Index: evidence-informed guidance on screening and when to refer, teaching virtually, and teaching every body, with full references.

Workshop

Lee-Anne, founder of Sekond Skin Society, sits in a cream armchair with her legs crossed and smiles softly at the camera. She has long, curly, dark hair with silver streaks over one shoulder and wears a navy suit jacket and trousers over a royal blue top, with a delicate necklace and a gold watch, in a bright white room.
Recorded webinar, 90 minutes

Foundations of Inclusion

Our founder Lee-Anne's 90-minute inclusive language training: how to work with all people, the words to use and avoid, and how to create spaces where no one feels singled out.

Based on decades of work in the disability sector and thousands of stories shared by people with disabilities.

“This needs to be in every school and every workplace.”

Foundations of Inclusion attendees, October 2026
  • Full recording, watch at your own pace
  • Handouts included
  • Sent to the email you use at checkout within 3 business days

$297 USD

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September 2027 cohort · Deposit

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Reserve your spot in the September 2027 cohort with a $400 USD deposit. Your deposit is credited toward your tuition.

If we don't get enough deposits to build the certification, we'll refund your deposit in full.

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A woman with a larger body, seen from behind against a plain warm beige backdrop, presses two black dumbbells straight overhead with her arms fully extended. Her bright pink hair is pulled back in a high ponytail, and she wears small hoop earrings, a cream cropped t-shirt and lilac leggings. She has a snake tattoo on one forearm and a small tattoo on the other upper arm.

Questions

How do I receive my guide?

Your guide is sent to the email you used at checkout within 3 business days.

Do the guides carry continuing education credits?

Not at this time. Each guide includes a knowledge check and a certificate of completion.

Who are they for?

Fitness instructors, yoga teachers, personal trainers, coaches and anyone who teaches movement and wants every person in the room to feel welcome and able to take part.

Can I get a refund?

All sales are final and we don't offer refunds. If you'd like, we can credit your purchase toward another Sekond Skin Society product. Just email instructortraining@sekondskinsociety.com. Pilates deposits are the one exception: if we don't build the certification, your deposit is refunded in full.

What if the Pilates certification doesn't go ahead?

Your deposit is refunded in full.

I have another question.

Email us at instructortraining@sekondskinsociety.com and our team will get back to you.

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