Be Well: How to Incorporate Chairs Into Your Yoga Poses

<div class="block">We&#39;re getting creative with our yoga poses and implementing chairs into the routine. Check out these easy-to-do moves from the comfort of your own home.</div>

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This is a great way that you don't get intimidated by yoga. You can have a chair and you don't have to say, hey, I can't do that. It's too hard. So, Stephanie from hot spot, talk me through what we're going to do here so that I can feel secure and safe and what, how I'm moving. Ok. So first we're gonna start with a downward facing dog modified using the chair. So take your hands to the back of the chair, step back with both feet, take your feet about hip distance apart and then push your butt back so that you can feel the stretch in the, in the hamstrings in the back of the legs. You could stay right here looking straight out of the ground, feeling a stretch in the front of the shoulders. That could be your down dog. If you suffer from vertigo, you're going to stay here. If you're able to then tilt the head down, the crown of the head shines down. So you could look towards the knee and get more of an opening in the front of those shoulders. Absolutely. I mean, you just feel what a great stretch this is, yes. So sometimes that's even more effective than on the ground. So then to come out of that, we're gonna soften our knees and I'm gonna show you how to work into um a balancing pose that anybody can really do. Even if you don't have great balance, we're gonna use the chair. So step forward with your right foot, keep your left foot back, take your hands over the back of the chair. So this part of the chair is going to give you more stability. Both hands come to the chair. I'm going to walk you through every little option. If you're really not comfortable, those toes stay on the ground, the left toes, if you're able to lift them up, now, both hands could always stay there or we're going to balance if you're able to take your left hand to the back of the chair, staying there to the hip or maybe all the way up to the sky. And then we're gonna slowly and if you feel like you're losing it, just hold on. Exactly. So we have the chair keeping us safe, bring your feet together, walk your hands to the back of the chair to come up and then you would do the other side. Of course. Absolutely. It's all about the balancing. And now I love this because it's literally called chair pose and we're using a chair. Absolutely. So a lot of times when people perform chair pose, they push their knees forward. Very bad for your knees. So we're gonna do this in front of the chair. I want you to think about bending to the hips. So your heart stays open, the chest is up, push your butt back as if you're gonna sit in the chair, do not sit in your hand is too and keep your heart open and hold. You can, hands can stay here. You can open out to cactus shape which will open the front of the shoulders again. And can you feel that in the steps, the core muscles, everything really working. And then if, when you want to actually sit, when you're coming out of the pose, grab a hold of the sides of the chair, come on down, be together, sit up tall hands to prayer and we always end in a yoga practice with a bowing of our head. Must must. Thank you, Stephanie.