Get Fit Where You Sit: A Guide to the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method
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Shambhala Publications
Pages: 248
Size: 8 in x 10 in
ISBN: 9781611809251
Book description
Lakshmi 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.
Praise for the book
Heather Mason
“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.”
Stephen Cope
“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.”
Artemis Joukowsky
“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.”
