What is Chair Based Yoga?
Chair Based Yoga is a gentle form of yoga practice that can be done while sitting on a Chair or Standing and using the Chair for balance, making the practice more accessible. Chair Based Yoga is the perfect way to relax and feel confident. Traditional yoga poses are adapted to use a chair when a person maybe cannot or does not want to get down to the floor. Chair Based Yoga sessions welcome students of all abilities and mobilities.
During a Chair Based Yoga session as well as moving or bodies, we also explore simple relaxation techniques and meditation.
Benefits of Chair Based Yoga
There are many benefits of Yoga and Chair Based Yoga. Some of these can be found below:
- Improve your overall health by adding more movement into your day
- Help to relieve tension in your body from sitting down too much
- Help you become more flexible and help to increase your range of mobility
- Help your self-development by learning a new skill
- Helps to improve flexibility and strength
- Can help to reduce pain
- Can help to reduce stress and anxiety
- Helps you to relax
- Help you sleep better
- Become stronger
- Makes the poses more inclusive and accessible
- Can promote mindfulness within you
- Helps to increase circulation
- Helps to build balance
- Can help to lower your blood pressure
- Can help improve your quality of sleep
