Twello Adds Virtual Chair Yoga to 2026 Workplace Mental Health Programs

Twello, the New York-based workplace wellness company led by Founder and CEO Kayla Baum, announced on April 1 its full 2026 Mental Health Awareness Month programming, placing virtual chair yoga among eight featured workshops scheduled to run throughout May.

The lineup also covers Mindfulness 101, Break the Stress Cycle, Understanding Anxiety, Good Mood Food, Self-Care for Stress Reduction, Mindfulness for Improving Sleep, and Preventing Burnout. Sessions are delivered both virtually and onsite, supporting remote, hybrid, and in-office teams across North America. Organizations can book a single session, a multi-session series spread across the month, or an ongoing program that extends beyond May, with all sessions led by certified facilitators.

Chair yoga earns its place in that slate for one straightforward reason: eight in 10 office workers spend between four and nine hours a day seated at their desks, accumulating roughly 67 sedentary days per year, according to a workplace survey of 1,250 workers conducted by office equipment firm Fellowes. Twello's chair yoga offering requires no mat, no athletic gear, and no dedicated studio space, making it deployable in a standard conference room or over a video call.

"A lot of wellness programming sounds great in theory, but does not always land with busy teams," said Baum. "We focus on making sessions easy to join and immediately useful because that is what actually sticks."

Baum built Twello after spending a year away from work following a nervous breakdown and bipolar diagnosis, and the company has since delivered programming to more than 1,100 organizations, including KPMG, Amazon, Capital One, and CARE International. The case for investment is backed by Deloitte research finding that companies with mature workplace mental health programs generated a median return of CA$2.18 for every dollar invested. The WHO estimates mental disorders affect roughly one in four people globally.

The model Twello has refined across those accounts positions chair yoga not as a standalone class but as a certified-facilitator-led mental health touchpoint, packaged alongside breathwork and resilience training for organizations ranging from startups to enterprise scale. HR teams can contact Twello directly to reserve May slots and access facilitation notes from the full 2026 catalog.

The following 10-minute chair yoga break reflects the low-barrier format Twello advocates and can be dropped into a team calendar or Slack channel as a standalone resource. Sit upright at the front edge of your chair with both feet flat on the floor. Inhale and reach both arms overhead, pressing the palms toward the ceiling for a seated mountain stretch and hold for three slow breaths. Release the arms and drop the right ear toward the right shoulder for a 30-second lateral neck release on each side. Place your right hand on your left knee and your left hand on the chair back, inhale tall, then exhale into a seated spinal twist; hold for five breaths before switching sides. Interlace both hands behind your head, open the elbows wide, and gently arch the upper back over the chair for a supported chest opener and breathe for five counts. Plant both feet, rest hands on knees, and move through eight rounds of seated cat-cow: inhale as the chest presses forward and the spine arches, exhale as the chin draws down and the back rounds. Close with five box breaths: four counts in, four counts hold, four counts out, four counts hold.

Seven minutes of that sequence, scheduled before a midday meeting, is a more realistic ask than a 60-minute studio class. That low threshold is precisely the gap Twello built its May calendar to fill.