Sitting on a chair can also sometimes help people go deeper into poses. Say you\u2019re trying to target your glutes with a Figure 4 pose, where one ankle rests on the opposite knee as you bend forward. When you\u2019re seated, you\u2019re able to focus more on the stretch because you\u2019re not struggling to balance, Balakrishnan says. \u201cIf I was doing a standing Figure 4, half of my attention is going to be on the standing foot and keeping myself upright, so I may not sit as deep,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One group that might particularly benefit from chair yoga is people who are stuck sitting in front of a computer all day. \u201cFor anyone who works at a desk, it is a lifesaver,\u201d Balakrishnan says. A simple seated yoga routine can relieve tight, achy joints, and multiple<\/a> studies<\/a> have<\/a> found<\/a> that chair yoga can significantly reduce stress. Balakrishnan regularly takes yoga breaks right from her chair, doing neck rolls, spinal twists, or anything else her body is craving to bring some movement and mindfulness back to her day\u2014without feeling like she has to stop what she\u2019s doing and carve out time for a full yoga session. \u201cYou don’t have that mental barrier of, \u2018Okay, let me get out of my chair, go roll out my yoga mat, go get my blocks,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cIt requires less of you to begin the practice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sitting on a chair can also sometimes help people go deeper into poses. Say you\u2019re trying to target…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,19373,407,84],"class_list":["post-941106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-exercise-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}