Chairs and their Effective Use as a Prop – Workshop with Juliana Fair

Chairs and their Effective Use as a Prop - Workshop with Juliana Fair

The chair has endless and valuable uses in an Iyengar Yoga practice.

For the beginner, someone with or recovering from injury, a person with other limitations or general fatigue, knowing how to use the chair enables one to start or to continue ones practice.

For a more experienced practitioner, it can illuminate weak or tight areas and enable an asana to be held longer without dropping into old samskaras(habitual ways of doing things that are not always constructive).

In the workshop in Nov 2019, Juliana focused on using the chair as a prop in standing poses. Follow up sessions focused on using the chair as a prop for inversions, twists and backbends will be offered during the Winter 2020 session at Unity Woods Yoga Center in Arlington, VA. Watch this space for updates.

Viparitakarani: Lie flat on the back. Legs are up on the chair with back of the knee at the front edge of chair seat. Depending on length of thigh bones, the thighs may or may not be perpendicular. Rest arms on either side with palms up (not shown).

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