Chairs and their Effective Use as a Prop – Workshop with Juliana Fair

Chairs and their Effective Use as a Prop - Workshop with Juliana Fair

The chair has endless and valuable uses in an Iyengar Yoga practice.

For the beginner, someone with or recovering from injury, a person with other limitations or general fatigue, knowing how to use the chair enables one to start or to continue ones practice.

For a more experienced practitioner, it can illuminate weak or tight areas and enable an asana to be held longer without dropping into old samskaras(habitual ways of doing things that are not always constructive).

In the workshop in Nov 2019, Juliana focused on using the chair as a prop in standing poses. Follow up sessions focused on using the chair as a prop for inversions, twists and backbends will be offered during the Winter 2020 session at Unity Woods Yoga Center in Arlington, VA. Watch this space for updates.

Virabhadrasana 2: Dorsiflexion of the foot by placing it on the underside of chair seat moves the femur bone of the front leg into the socket. The elevation allows a person with tighter hips get their front leg at a right angle. The position gives different stretch to calf and leg muscles. It also can help take pressure off the knee joint ion this pose.

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