Chair yoga isn't only for older adults, it is for anyone that wants to experience transformation with a little more support.

Dear Friends,

I'm back with my friend and DailyOM course author Sadie Nardini to talk about her course Chair Yoga for Healing, Strength, and Mobility. Think chair yoga is only for the over-70 crowd? Think again! Let's hear what Sadie has to say about it.

Course Overview

In the next ten days, yoga and anatomy expert, Sadie Nardini, will guide you through a gentle way to welcome back your healthy movement, healing, strength and joint mobility. You will learn effective workouts that can be done in a chair or on the floor to regain your best body, inside and out. Each workout addresses your body as a whole, using anatomy and alignment knowledge, so each 10 minute session gives you the results of doing a much longer workout. You will actually enjoy exercising -- at the level you need.

  • Receive one lesson every day for 10 days (total of 10 lessons).
  • Have lifetime access to the course for reference whenever you want.
  • Select the amount you can afford, and get the same course as everyone.
  • If you are not 100% satisfied, you may request a refund.
How much do you want to pay?

$15$35$50

This is the total amount for all 10 lessons


Interview With Sadie Nardini

Madisyn Taylor: Let's talk about the idea of chair yoga--it isn't just for older adults!

Sadie Nardini: You're so right! Many people think chair yoga is only for those who are older, that it's purely gentle and can't possibly create real transformation. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I had a severe spinal injury as a teen, and my pain and limitations improve or get worse from day to day--sometimes hour to hour. It's helped me become a more sensitive guide for others who have their own deep challenges and sensitivities to deal with, but who also want to stay as healthy and fit as possible. Actually, chair yoga can be as soothing--or as challenging--as we want it to be. I designed this course for any student who wants to build more stamina and/or feel the energizing flow of movement without the requirement of using the whole body's unsupported weight. I created this program for anyone who is overwhelmed or roadblocked if they are asked to do a full yoga practice chair-free. It's also for people who desire more stamina and muscle tone after aging, illness, or injury. I have clients who are in chemo, have Parkinson's, had a limb removed, are just exhausted from their jobs and crave a more nourishing sequence, who are recovering from medical procedures, and even those who come to the program partially or fully paralyzed and want to find some breath and range of motion in the material body or in their energetic one.

I made this for family members and friends to gift to those around them who might benefit from it, and for yoga teachers who would like more knowledge and inspiration about how to teach chair yoga or give helpful modifications to their students. At its foundation, using the chair provides instant support, safety, security, and balance, so you can focus on range of motion, safer alignment, breathing, and staying present as you create big changes in detox, strengthening, and flexibility. I'm an advanced physical practitioner, and I love using the chair as a path to simplify and deepen my own practice too.

And most of all, I made this for my mom, who suffers from chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. I hate seeing her knocked down, and even the most basic yoga class on the mat was far too much for her. She'd come home in more pain than before, and it crushed my heart. She loves to flow and dance gently around though, which doesn't trigger her pain, and since I wasn't finding exactly what she needed out there, I decided to step up and use my flow style and spinal and joint expertise to her--and many more people's--advantage.

MT: As you mention, your awesome mom, Janet, joins you in your videos. Tell me about this.

SN: My mom came to the shoot on the first day dressed to the nines! Janet is awesome. She was the first rock-star role model in my life--the actual lead singer of a rock band when I was growing up--and I was so proud of her willingness to be vulnerable and show her learning and limitations on camera. In this course, she mostly does the chair yoga in real-time--no rehearsal! This was on purpose so that people could see that it's okay to move and ask questions and figure things out like a real person and not a yoga model. Many students have commented that this makes them feel welcome and totally normal to be right where they are. That's exactly what I wanted! While Janet's on the chair, I do the same class with her but on the yoga mat, so if a student is comfortable on the floor, or can progress there over time, they can follow along with me. Or if the chair is necessary, you have Mom to watch--and me constantly guiding you both!

MT: Tell me about the type of yoga poses and movements students can expect to do in this course.

SN: We include all the main yoga poses: spinal warm-ups and breath, lunges, warriors, forward folds, hip openers, core and arm strengtheners, twists, backbends, and more. But we do these in any spectrum you are able to, even if you can't move at all or can only move minimally! The common misconceptions out there are that a) you have to be a Cirque du Soleil contortionist to do yoga, or b) you can't do yoga if you're inflexible and not as mobile or strong as you would like. This is actually a dangerous mind-set because it keeps people from doing something, anything, for their bodies, minds, and energy. In fact, even a few minutes of breath and micro-movements can ignite a host of healing and fitness benefits.

MT: I love how in lesson 10 you teach that even if your physical body cannot reach a full range of motion, your energy body can.

SN: Thank you! I wish I could claim that concept as my own, but I was in a profound teaching workshop about a decade ago with an instructor who was paralyzed from the chest down and in a chair to get around. He had everyone in his class, from fully-abled bodies to differently-abled ones, like the woman who had just had a stroke and was told by her doctors that she'd likely never lift her arms again. She was despondent because she used to dance. He showed us something that I'm able to pay forward in this course. Yogis believe that we have an energy body underlying and infusing our physical one, one that is never harmed by the outer body becoming weak, sick, or injured--even from loss of limbs! Therefore, if you envision, as you move, where your physical limitations stop you, the energy body continues into full expression, and you can gain the same psycho-spiritual (mind-energy) feeling as if you were, say, a prima ballerina dancing your way through each movement. Even if your body can't move at all!

This causes joy, which sparks stress reduction, less bloating, better sleep, deeper healing, lower blood pressure--and it's all proven by science. I'll tell you something incredible--the woman who had the stroke closed her eyes as he had her inhale and exhale for five minutes, imagining her energy arms lifting and lowering. At the end, he said, "Open your eyes." Her actual arm was at shoulder height! Everyone ran and hugged her. It was a miracle moment. I will always carry this perspective into all I teach and do.

MT: Over 85,000 students have taken this course. Tell me some feedback you have received from participants.

SN: A woman named Betty wrote me a while back and asked if this course might be right for her. She was 56 and depressed because her husband had passed, and she was diagnosed with MS. She told me all she had was her dog to keep her company, and she felt like she'd received a death sentence, so why even try? Yet the fact that she reached out meant that there was still hope for her to make something beautiful and possible out of a time that seemed so dark. She did the course, and halfway through, I received this letter:

"I have been going really slow, but it is finally starting to work for me! The MS I have tightens the muscles in my body sometimes, especially in my legs. It had my toes tightening like making a fist. Sadie, I can play my toes like a piano now! I have not been able to do that for a long time. I just had to tell you. I can see that it is really helping me. I am even off the chair and standing now!"

This is why I made the course. In the end, we are all just here to help each other home. Let's dance while we're at it, however, we're able.

How Does It Work?
Starting today, you will receive a new lesson every day for 10 days (total of 10 lessons). Each lesson is yours to keep and you'll be able to refer back to it whenever you want. And if you miss a lesson or are too busy to get to it that day, each lesson will conveniently remain in your account so you won't have to search for it when you're ready to get back to it.

Free Gift
As a free gift, when you sign up for this course, you will also receive the award-winning DailyOM inspiration newsletter which gives you daily inspirational thoughts for a happy, healthy and fulfilling day. We will also let you know about other courses and offers from DailyOM and Sadie Nardini that we think you might be interested in.

Get Started Now
We are offering this course with the option of selecting how much you want to pay. No matter how much you pay, you'll be getting the same course as everybody else. We simply trust that people are honest and will support the author of the course with whatever they can afford. And if you are not 100% satisfied, we will refund your money.

How much do you want to pay?

$15$35$50

This is the total amount for all 10 lessons


Thank you, Sadie. It warms my heart to hear how this course is helping people. If you are curious about chair yoga and would like to experience it for yourself, click the link. Until next time.

Be well,


Madisyn Taylor
Cofounder, Editor-in-Chief
DailyOM