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If you’re employed in an workplace or, say, drive a bus, there’s no getting round the truth that you’re in your seat greater than you’re in your ft. But don’t take that data, um, sitting down. Adding loads of  motion to your day is essential to good health. Medical consultants say we should always rise up as usually as attainable and transfer round each half-hour or so. And keep in mind, you can too do yoga whilst you’re in your chair.

Chair yoga—poses modified for a seated place—have been a boon for individuals who have accidents, low mobility, or bodily disabilities. But you possibly can follow asana in a chair to stretch stiff muscle groups, hold your joints limber, and assist enhance blood circulation.

Almost something you are able to do in your mat may be accomplished in a chair. Below is a collection of artistic chair yoga poses that may assist you hold energetic even while you’re sitting down.

13 CHAIR YOGA POSES

Chair yoga poses require a secure, sturdy seat. Yoga studios generally provide a folding chair arrange on a sticky mat to forestall slipping. If you might be at house, a kitchen chair or any secure, armless chair will work. Find one which permits you to sit together with your ft on the ground together with your shins and thighs at a 90-degree angle. Putting blocks underneath your ft could assist. For security’s sake, keep away from chairs with wheels when training chair yoga until you possibly can lock them to maintain them from rolling.

Most chair yoga poses require you to sit down together with your again away from the again of the chair in order that you’ll be able to transfer freely. But the chair again may also act as a prop to present you extra assist and leverage, particularly in twisting postures. You can also need to hold straps or blocks close by to facilitate among the poses.

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1. Sit together with your again a number of inches from the again of the chair. Lengthen your backbone, reaching the crown of your head up and gently releasing your tailbone towards your seat. Lift your chin parallel to the ground.
2. Place your ft flat on the ground together with your huge toes touching and somewhat house between your heels.  (If you expertise decrease again ache, follow together with your ft hip-distance aside. Place your ft on blocks in the event that they don’t attain the ground.) Root down together with your huge toe mounds, your heels, and the skin edges of your ft.
3. Inhale, draw your shoulders again, soften your entrance ribs, and lift your arms overhead together with your palms shoulder-distance aside and palms dealing with one another.
4. If you’re capable of hold your arms straight, attain up and contact your palms, bringing your gaze to your thumbs. If your shoulders are tight, take your arms out wider than your shoulders.
5. Take a number of breaths. Release your arms down.

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1. Sit in your chair together with your ft hip-width aside.
2. Let your palms relaxation in your knees.
3. On an exhalation spherical your backbone towards the again of your chair. Drop your chin towards your chest and draw your decrease stomach in and up.
4. Take a number of breaths. To launch the pose, come again to your unique seated place.

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1. Sit in your chair together with your ft and knees hip-width aside. Let your palms relaxation in your knees.
2. Inhale and arch your again. Lengthen alongside the again of your neck and your decrease again to create a protracted, even curve.
3. Lift your chin and sternum, broaden your collarbones, and permit your shoulders to fall again and away out of your ears.
4. Take a number of breaths. Return to a impartial backbone.

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1. Sit in your chair together with your ft hip-width aside.
2. Inhale and arch your again, permitting your shoulder blades to the touch the again of your chair.
3. Lift your chin and sternum, broaden your collarbones, and permit your shoulders to fall again and away out of your ears.
4. Reach your arms again to know the legs of the chair. Rotate your arms externally in order that the within of your elbows face out.
5. On your subsequent inhalation, press your chest ahead and up, permitting your rib cage to broaden and creating a protracted even curve by your mid and higher again.
6. Take a number of breaths. To launch the pose, launch your palms, tuck your chin, and are available again to your unique seated place.

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1. Sit towards the entrance fringe of the chair together with your ft on the ground, somewhat greater than hip-width aside.
2. Reach the crown of your head up and draw your tailbone down to seek out size in your again.
3. As you exhale, fold ahead at your hips and convey your stomach between your thighs. You could select to widen your legs to create extra space on your torso.
4. Inhale and attain down between your legs and grasp your outer shins, ankles, or ft.
5. Gently pull your torso down between your thighs, decreasing your physique towards the ground.
6. Take a number of breaths. To launch the pos, let go of your grip and are available again to your unique seated place.
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   1. Sit in a chair together with your sit bones about halfway on the seat. Shift your self towards the suitable facet of the seat and place your ft flat on the ground together with your knees hip-width aside.
   2. Keep your proper thigh related to the chair seat as you bend your proper knee, raise your foot off the ground, and level your toes towards the again of the chair.
   3. Reach down together with your proper hand and grasp your ankle. Gently raise it towards your physique till you are feeling a powerful stretch in your quadricep and the entrance of your shin. (If you possibly can’t attain your ankle, loop a strap or towel round your foot.)
   4. Take a number of breaths. Lower your foot and are available again to your unique seated place. Repeat on the alternative facet.

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1. Sit towards the entrance fringe of the chair. Inhale deeply, lifting your chest, and exhale as you draw your shoulder blades down your again. Look straight forward at a gentle gazing spot.
2. Extend your left leg straight out in entrance of you. Flex your foot or level your toes towards the ground.
3. Open your proper leg out to the facet, maintaining your knee bent and your foot or toes on the ground.
4. Place your palms in Anjali Mudra at your coronary heart or stretch your arms overhead.
5. Take a number of breaths. To launch the pose, come again to your unique seated place. Repeat the pose on the opposite facet.

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1. Sit in order that your physique is on the left facet of the chair and your left thigh clears the seat.
2. Extend your left leg straight out to the facet. Firm your thigh and straighten your leg as a lot as attainable.
3. Inhale and lift your arms straight out out of your shoulders and parallel to the ground. Keep your shoulder blades vast and your palms down.
4. Exhale and lean your torso to the left, bending out of your hip joint. Reach your left arm out and down towards your prolonged leg, resting your left hand in your shin or thigh. Reach your proper arm towards the ceiling.
5. Keep your head in a impartial place or flip to look both at your proper hand or down on the floor.
6. Take a number of breaths. Inhale and attain up together with your proper hand as you deliver your torso up. Then deliver your left leg again to heart. Shift your physique to the suitable facet of your chair and repeat the posture on the opposite facet.

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1. Sit towards the entrance fringe of your chair in order that your buttocks are supported however your knees clear the seat.
2. Open your legs vast, in order that your knees level away from one another.
3. Sit tall, urgent your shoulder blades towards your higher again to raise by your sternum. Reach the crown of your head towards the ceiling.
4. Keep your knees vast as you deliver your ft collectively. Open your ft as should you have been opening the pages of a e book, maintaining the outer edges of your ft collectively.
5. Place your palms in your thighs and gently press your thighs away from one another.
6. Take a number of breaths. Slowly launch and are available again to your unique seated place.

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1. Sit dealing with the left facet of your chair in order that your thighs are totally supported. Shift towards the entrance of the chair in order that your proper thigh clears the seat.
2. Keeping each hips dealing with ahead, lengthen your proper leg straight again. with the ball of your foot on the ground. Firm your thigh and push it up towards the ceiling to straighten your leg as a lot as attainable.
3. Inhale and attain your arms towards the ceiling, maintaining your shoulders vast and your arms aligned together with your ears.
4. Take a number of breaths. To launch the pose, launch your arms and convey your proper leg ahead.
5. Turn to face the suitable facet of your chair and repeat the posture on the opposite facet.

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1. Sit dealing with the left facet of your chair in order that your thighs are totally supported on the seat. Shift your self to the suitable, close to the entrance facet of the chair, in order that your proper thigh clears the seat.
2. Extend your proper leg again. Open your hips towards the entrance of the chair. Straighten your proper leg and place the underside of your proper foot on the ground together with your toes dealing with ahead.
3. Lean your torso towards your left knee, hinging at your hips to deliver your left arm towards the ground. Place your left fingertips on the bottom or on a block, so your arm and shin are parallel.
4. Reach your proper arm towards the ceiling. Extend it alongside your proper ear, palm dealing with the ground, or bend your proper elbow and attain again to know the again of the chair.
5. Rotate your torso to show your chest towards your prime arm. Turn your head to look towards the ceiling.
6. Take a number of breaths. To launch the pose, press your self up together with your left hand and convey your proper leg in to return to your seated place.
7. Turn to face the suitable facet of your chair and repeat the posture on the opposite facet.

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1. Sit dealing with the suitable facet of your chair in order that your thighs are totally supported on the seat.
2. Cross your proper leg over your left.
3. Inhale as you lengthen your backbone and raise each arms towards the ceiling.
4. Exhale and twist to the suitable as you deliver your palms down to know the again of the chair.
5. Turn your head to the suitable, trying previous your proper shoulder. Make positive you don’t pressure your neck.
6. Take a number of breaths. To launch the pos, inhale and attain your arms up after which exhale and unwind your physique. Place each ft on the ground.
7. Turn to the left facet of your chair and repeat the posture on that facet.

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1. Sit together with your backbone supported by the again of the chair. Lengthen your backbone and gently launch your tailbone towards the seat.
2. Place your ft on the ground hip-width aside.
3. Lift your proper knee and draw it in towards your chest. Pace your proper foot on the seat of the chair as near your proper sitting bone as attainable.
4. Inhale and lengthen your backbone. Exhale and twist to the suitable. Grasp your proper knee together with your left hand or wrap your left elbow round your proper knee.
5. Drape your proper arm over the again of your chair  and both grasp the chair again or clasp your palms collectively.
6. Take a number of breaths. Lengthen on every inhalation and gently twist a bit extra with every exhalation.
7. To launch the pose, decrease your arms, unwind your physique, and place your proper foot again on the ground. Repeat on the opposite facet.