About

Fran Chandler

Fran Chandler teaches yoga and meditation, and coaches people through the parts of health that don't show up on a scale. She's been doing this work for over a decade, in studios and living rooms and, more than once, over a kitchen table with a cup of tea going cold. Here and Now is the book she wishes she'd had earlier — not because it would have fixed anything overnight, but because it might have saved her a few years of trying to rush what can't be rushed.

She came to this work the way most people do: because her own life needed it first. Fran spent years moving fast — through a career, through motherhood, through the general noise of trying to keep up — before she noticed that most of her stress wasn't really about what was happening. It was about how rarely she was actually present for any of it. Yoga and meditation didn't fix that overnight. They just gave her somewhere to practice standing still.

These days, Fran teaches the same slow, unglamorous work to her students, and to her own kids, who are just as unimpressed by the idea of sitting quietly as most people are. She still doesn't have it all figured out. But she's stopped expecting to, and that's mostly the point.