Chair Yoga and Meditation: Comprehensive guide to Meditation with selected Yoga positions for Seniors.

Chair yoga is a unique subtype of yoga that involves performing yoga poses while sitting in a chair or standing up holding onto a chair for support.
Developed by Lakshmi Voelker in 1982, chair yoga has become a therapeutic movement practice targeted especially at seniors or older adults as a safer and more comfortable way to engage in yoga despite limited mobility, lower fitness levels, visual or balance impairments, and weakness.

Most chair yoga poses are standard yoga poses that have been modified to enable them to be performed seated or holding onto a chair as a prop.
For example, one of the popular restorative yoga poses is Cat/Cow, which normally involves getting down on the yoga mat on your hands and knees and then moving gently through spinal flexion and extension in an alternating fashion with your back horizontal.
This yoga pose can be modified for chair yoga, enabling seniors or others with mobility impairments to reap the benefits of the pose without needing to get down on all fours on the floor.
Instead, when you are doing chair yoga, you can move to the front edge of your chair and move through the same two poses, flexing and extending the spine, with the back vertical rather than horizontal.

Chair yoga may be offered in a group setting, such as at a yoga studio, senior center, or a rehabilitation facility, or you can do at-home chair yoga by following a video or self-directing your own chair yoga poses.