I never thought I’d teach chair yoga. I came to teaching a few years ago fresh off a running and triathlon habit, and was drawn mostly to big, sweaty power flows. You know: Yoga As Exercise. Slower, more mindful movement just wasn’t “my thing.”
Fortunately for me, two things happened to change my mind. First, I kept getting injured, and noticed that my habitual movement patterns just weren’t serving me any more. Second: I took a look around me at who needed and wanted yoga, and discovered a whole cadre of older adults who didn’t want to stop moving just because getting up and down from the floor was less fun than it used to be.
I started offering one, then two, chair classes a week and absolutely fell in love, for several reasons:
People who are currently in their 70s were born between 1946 and 1955. The Summer of Love was in 1967; Woodstock in 1969; the Vietnam War ended in 1975. When my students were in their teens and 20s, some cool, revolutionary stuff was happening in America. Teac…
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