Lakshmi Voelker, E-RYT500, C-IAYT, YACEP, KYT, is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor and a member of the Yoga Alliance and International Association of Yoga Therapists. She has decades of experience bringing adaptive yoga to those unable to benefit from traditional yoga due to age or physical/mental health conditions.

Lakshmi created Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga™ (LVCY) in 1982 when one of her thirty-something students had a flair-up of her arthritis and could no longer get down on the floor to practice yoga. Lakshmi’s students could start doing mat yoga again, always keeping her chair nearby.

Lakshmi has studied, practiced, and taught Yoga and other Eastern disciplines since 1969. From her early years, she integrated these disciplines with Western health concepts. Her focus has always been to improve her students’ health and wellness by making the integration of these disciplines accessible to the broadest audience possible – particularly through Levels of Flexibility.