Liz Oppedijk is co-founder of the social enterprise Accessible Chair Yoga CIC and a leading expert on Chair Yoga. She is passionate about making yoga accessible to everyone, including those who may not think it is for them. She has taught accessible and chair yoga to people with a wide range of abilities, including those with Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, stroke, cancer, dementia, learning disabilities, and their carers.

Liz’s special interests include training a community of Chair Yoga teachers to bring yoga to care homes across the country and carrying out research into yoga’s effectiveness in the social care and healthcare sectors. She is a qualified yoga therapist and regularly lectures on accessible and chair yoga, yoga for Parkinson’s and dementia, and yoga in care homes for The Minded Institute and other organisations.

Liz is an official Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga teacher trainer and a regular facilitator for Jivana Heyman’s Accessible Yoga training. She is co-author of a book on chair yoga, Get Fit Where You Sit: A Guide to the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method, published in September 2023 by Shambhala Publications, and her most recent research article, ‘Reduced Anxiety and Depression and Improved Mood in Older Adults Living in Care Homes after Participating in Chair Yoga’, appeared in the Journal of Applied Gerontology in March 2024.