Get Fit Where You Sit
By Lakshmi Voelker
By Liz Oppedijk
Photographs by Julie Frances Hopkins
Foreword by Jivana Heyman
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Shambhala Publications09/26/2023Pages: 248Size: 8 x 9.5ISBN: 9781611809251DetailsLakshmi Voelker’s Chair Yoga™ method upends the myth that yoga is only for the flexible, strong, balanced, thin, and conventionally able-bodied. Whether you need or want chair support, or you’d like to get in some yoga practice while you sit at your work desk, Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga offers 40 active and restorative poses, illustrated with 250 photos, along with breathing techniques and meditation practices—all adapted so that you don’t have to leave your chair.
Poses include:- Tree Pose—for a flexible spine and to combat the “slump” we often get in our sedentary lifestyle
- Eagle Pose—for healthy joints
- Squat Pose—to relax the lower back
- Knee-to-Chest Pose—to support good digestion
- Coherent breathing—to bring the body’s systems into balance
- And much more
Lakshmi Voelker and Liz Oppedijk offer a powerful, inclusive practice that is appropriate for new students or longtime practitioners and can easily be adopted by yoga instructors, educators, medical professionals, exercise professionals, or caretakers for work with their clients.
RelatedCheck items to add to the cart orAuthor BioLakshmi Voelker is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor and a member of the Yoga Alliance and International Association of Yoga Therapists. She certifies teachers in the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga method at Kripalu, New York Open Center, Discovery Yoga, and through her online teacher training and mentoring program.Liz Oppedijk is a leading expert on Chair Yoga and a yoga researcher based in the UK. She is an official Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga teacher and trainer and a regular lecturer on chair and accessible yoga.JIVANA HEYMAN, C-IAYT, E-RYT500, is the founder and director of the Accessible Yoga Association, an international non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings. Accessible Yoga offers conferences, community forums, a podcast, and a popular ambassador program. He’s the co-founder of the Accessible Yoga Training School and the author of Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body. His website is jivanaheyman.com.Praise"If you have ever taught yoga, this book has something to teach you. If you have ever thought you cannot do fancy yoga moves so you haven’t tried it, read this book. Just take a seat and read this book." —Heather Mason, author of Yoga on Prescription and editor of Yoga for Mental Health
"Lakshmi Voelker and Liz Oppedijk have created a beautiful and enormously practical guide for yogis and health seekers of all ages and conditions. I will use in it my own teaching and practice, and I highly recommend it to all." —Stephen Cope, author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
"For all of us who sit much or all of our day on a chair, you will find that you can fulfill your physical activity one breath at a time." —Artemis Joukowsky, co-founder of No Limits Media
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