"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 ...

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 safely boosts strength, balance, flexibility, and mobility in older adults It offers mental health benefits such as reducing anxiety and depression, even among those in care homes With ...

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 ...

Well, a recently published study by Florida Atlantic University professors found seniors don’t necessarily have to be able to pump iron or do aerobics in order to improve their health. Juyoung Park, ...

Susan Rieger leads an Ageless Yoga class on Sept. 20, 2019, at Westside Yoga in Lawrence. Susan Rieger knows it’s impossible to change a person’s chronological age, but she believes it’s possible to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Chair yoga proves that you don’t need to stand to thrive. Exercising on a chair could help improve strength, flexibility, balance, and joy for seniors. Online Chair Yoga can Benefit Older Adults ...