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, at a table listening quietly to the everyday worries and concerns we all carry. 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 in medical sales, through raising three children who are now grown, 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 able to be present for any of it. Yoga and meditation didn't fix that overnight. They just gave her somewhere to practice standing still.
Her approach
Three things Fran keeps coming back to
Mindfulness
Fran doesn't teach mindfulness as a fix for stress — she teaches it as a practice of paying attention. Most of her work starts with noticing what's already true, before trying to change anything.
Gentle movement
Yoga, in Fran's classes, isn't about flexibility or performance. It's a way back into the body — a slow, physical way of remembering you have one.
Presence
The brand's name isn't a slogan to Fran. It's the actual instruction: come back to right here, right now, as many times as it takes.
"Each new day is an opportunity to create a better version of who you were yesterday." Fran Chandler
Meet the journal
See how Fran built the seven-month practice, chapter by chapter.
Read Fran's journal