Chair yoga can be useful for older adults who have difficulty with balance or want to improve their strength while minimizing the risk of falls. Chairs can provide stability or make an exercise easier ...

If you want the benefits of yoga but are little unsure about your mobility or balance, chair yoga for seniors may be the ideal ergonomic workout for you. You don't have to worry about balancing on one ...

Chair yoga (practicing yoga with a chair) provides a relatively safe and stable way to move the body. While most chair yoga exercises are performed while seated, some poses use the chair as a prop to ...

For some, the road to enlightenment begins with sitting down. Taking a seat is a first step for participants of chair yoga, a low-impact, high-benefit variation of the physical, spiritual and mental ...

Yoga has been shown to boost mobility, reduce stress, and improve bone and joint health, muscle strength, and respiratory function. Life Time Yoga Instructor Cindy Tran joined Houston Life’s Melanie ...

A chair appears to be getting some people off the couch. Many senior citizens and people with disabilities are finding chair yoga as a welcome and non-daunting alternative exercise method. The system, ...

Yoga is a great way to improve your health, but a traditional class might be too difficult for older people. That’s where chair yoga comes in, and the benefits are big. “Chair yoga is ideal for ...

Any good yoga class has its share of challenges. For people of a certain age, getting down on the floor can be a big one — not to mention getting up again. Enter chair yoga. The practice — which ...

A more gentle form of yoga is catching on in some retirement communities. The yoga mat is replaced by the chair. Sometimes two. Instructor Lakshmi Voelker-Binder says her students can duplicate any ...

"More than a third of Americans who practice yoga are age 50 and older," according to research by yoga therapist Carol Krucoff. Some have been doing yoga for decades. In fact, many seniors continue to ...