Get Fit Where You Sit A Guide to the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method

This practical guide offers a pioneering method of chair yoga for every body: a full practice of asana, breathing, and meditation with 250 instructional photos.

Designed and taught by Lakshmi Voelker, the LV Chair Yoga (TM) method upends the myth that yoga is only for the flexible, strong, balanced, thin, and conventionally able-bodied.
     This book highlights 40 active and restorative poses, including individual and partner poses, breathing techniques, and meditation practices, all adapted so that students never have to leave their chairs. For every pose, Voelker offers at least three different ways of experiencing it, depending on an individual’s level of flexibility, and suggests ways to incorporate breath work and chanting. Voelker includes healthy lifestyle practices and teaching tips, along with yoga philosophy “lessons” throughout.

Examples include:

• Tree Pose – For a flexible spine and to combat the "slump" we often get in our sedentary lifestyle
• Eagle Pose – For healthy joints
• Squat Pose – To relax the lower back
• Knee-to-Chest Pose – To support good digestion
• Coherent breathing – To bring the body’s systems into balance

• And much more

Voelker offers a powerful, inclusive practice that is appropriate for new students or long-time practitioners and can easily be adopted by yoga instructors, educators, medical professionals, exercise professionals, or caretakers for work with their clients.

LAKSHMI VOELKER is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor and a member of the Yoga Alliance and International Association of Yoga Therapists. She certifies teachers in the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Method at Kripalu, New York Open Center, and Discovery Yoga, and through her online teacher training and mentoring program. LIZ OPPEDIJK is a leading expert on Chair Yoga and a yoga researcher based in the UK. She is an official Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga teacher and trainer, and a regular lecturer on chair and accessible yoga for healthcare professionals, caregivers, and community workers.