Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga

Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga 🪑Creator of Chair Yoga
🧘🏼‍♀️ Yoga Classes
🙏Chair Yoga Teacher Training
📖 The Creator of Chair Yoga!

Lakshmi Voelker, E-RYT500, C-IAYT, YACEP, KYT, AY Ambassador is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor, a member of the Yoga Alliance and International Association of Yoga Therapists, and holder of other certifications. She created chair yoga and the premier chair yoga teacher training certification.
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She has dedicated her life to creating accessible yoga, fun paths to wellness. With her chair yoga,

she was able to bring adaptive fitness to those who could not benefit from traditional activities. This might be due to age or limiting physical/mental conditions or environment/location. Lakshmi created Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga in 1982. It was followed by Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga—The Sitting Mountain Series CD in 1990 and the DVD—Get Fit Where You Sit in 2007. In 2007, she formalized her unique Levels of Flexibility® that she had been using in teaching chair yoga classes to bring this capability to her certification program. In 2023, she will be releasing her book "Get Fit Where You Sit"
https://www.amazon.com/Get-Fit-Where-You-Sit/dp/1611809258/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9RAOKO1NKD84&keywords=get+fit+where+you+sit&qid=1693707375&sprefix=%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1

🧘‍♀️ Yoga has the power to meet us exactly where we are. As B.K.S. Iyengar reminds us, yoga can be a “golden key” to pea...
09/05/2026

🧘‍♀️ Yoga has the power to meet us exactly where we are.

As B.K.S. Iyengar reminds us, yoga can be a “golden key” to peace, tranquility, and joy. ✨
And you don’t have to get down on the floor to experience the benefits of yoga!

📖 "Get Fit Where You Sit" by Lakshmi Voelker & Liz Oppedijk brings accessible chair-based yoga and fitness to people of all abilities. With practical movements, adaptations, and mindful practices, this book shows that a chair can be more than a place to sit—it can be a tool for movement, strength, flexibility, balance, and wellness.

Find this inspiring quote on page 199 of Get Fit Where You Sit and let it be a reminder today: there is always a way to move, breathe, and find a little more peace. 💜

🌳 Find your balance—right where you sit! 🪑This seated variation allows you to explore the essence of Tree Pose while ad...
08/26/2026

🌳 Find your balance—right where you sit! 🪑

This seated variation allows you to explore the essence of Tree Pose while adapting it to your own body and abilities through our various levels of flexibility (LOFs). 😀

📖 Tree Pose on the Chair can be found in our book "Get Fit Where You Sit", pages 162–163.

Get ready for an incredible week of movement, learning, and connection! 🧘‍♀️✨Join us ON CAMPUS at Kripalu for the Lakshm...
08/21/2026

Get ready for an incredible week of movement, learning, and connection! 🧘‍♀️✨

Join us ON CAMPUS at Kripalu for the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Training!

📅 October 25–30, 2026
📍 Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

Learn from Lakshmi Voelker and Liz Oppedijk as you explore the transformative and accessible practice of Chair Yoga.
Who’s ready to join us at Kripalu? 🙌

⛰️ Mountain Pose → Sitting Mountain 🪑On the mat, we call it Mountain Pose. On the chair, we call it Sitting Mountain!But...
08/11/2026

⛰️ Mountain Pose → Sitting Mountain 🪑

On the mat, we call it Mountain Pose. On the chair, we call it Sitting Mountain!
But did you know there’s more than one way to practice it? 🙌

✨ Check out how we modify this pose from mat to chair across 3 different levels of flexibility, making the practice accessible and adaptable for every body.

📖 Learn more on page 142 of our book, "Get Fit Where You Sit"!

And did you know our book features 40+ poses showing how to adapt yoga from mat to chair? 🪑🧘‍♀️

Discover what makes the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method so unique! ✨Our book, *Get Fit Where You Sit*, explains our s...
08/03/2026

Discover what makes the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method so unique! ✨

Our book, *Get Fit Where You Sit*, explains our signature Levels of Flexibility—a person-centered approach that recognizes every body is different. Instead of expecting students to fit the pose, we adapt the yoga to fit the person. 💙

This adaptive approach has helped make our method effective and accessible for people of all abilities and ranges of motion 🙂

Ready to learn more? Join Lakshmi Voelker, the inventor of chair yoga, for our Premier Chair Yoga Certification on **September 12 & 26** and experience the method firsthand. 🙏

📖 *Get Fit Where You Sit*
🪑 Adaptive. Inclusive. Person-centered.

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