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.

Uttanasana: Another way to use the chair is with it folded and chair seat placed at the top of leg where it joins the pelvis. Angle of chair depends on flexibility of the individual. Fold forward and hold where appropriate on the side of the chair.

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