A Chair for Yoga: A complete guide to Iyengar Yoga practice with a chair

by Eyal Shifroni, Michael Sela (Editor), Ram Amit (Photographer)

• Do you enjoy practicing with props for restoration and recreation?
• Do you wish to make your asana (posture) practice richer and more enjoyable?
• Have you ever experienced the frustration of failing to remember an effective use of a chair that was demonstrated in a yoga workshop?
• Have you ever wondered how to prepare your body for penetrating the full depth of an advanced asana?
• Do you teach elderly people or people with movement difficulties?

If the answer to some or all of the above is positive, then this is probably the guide for you! Containing over 350 photos of 150 different exercises, it will show you how to enhance the practice of 72 important yoga postures using a chair.
Using the chair support, beginners can get closer to the wholesome experience of the pose; advance practitioners can explore deeper aspects of the pose; and, teachers can find ideas for enriching their instruction.

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 30, 2014

Reviews

[Dharmendra Rai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Never Imagined A Chair Can Transform Your Health So Much ! Guruji BKS Iyengar was such an ocean of critical knowledge of human health that his dying with teraflops of data that has been lost to mankind forever is one of the world's biggest tragedies . Despite having almost superhuman control over his body & massive energy at 90 that would put 20 year olds to shame he had an incredible amount of empathy for beginners & weak people . Hence he designed lots of props that fools think is a dilution of yoga . These fools don't even understand a trillionth of yoga that Guruji understood yet think they have the right to judge him . We are lucky he had such immensely dedicated students like Eyal Shifroni who have written this this book on just one prop - the chair . The billions of ways that a chair can be used for various asanas are almost impossible to conceive unless you read this book . I have benefitted immensely & have almost got a second life through Gurujis teachings & use of such props while practising Iyengar Yoga . Never believed in any other type

[Melanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favourite books for using a chair in yoga. This is not chair yoga for the elderly or infirm (although there is a sequence at the end of the book aimed in that direction). Here, the chair is used to bring consciousness into various aspects of the asanas. Yes, there are also uses to make poses more accessible on the journey to an advanced practice.

[Betty C Rice · Rating 1 out of 5]

No Positions Provided with bottom part of chair

This book is much to hard even for people who are physically fit. Very disappointed it. Thinking of getting a more appropriate guide for this chair.

[Edward Culp · Rating 1 out of 5]

An waste of money

In my opinion the use of the chair in this book were unhelpful at best and harmful at worst. Not recommended.

[meir tati · Rating 5 out of 5]

very helpful

I found the book very helpful in my yoga practice, if you need a good book to advance you practice - it will be good for you

[Lady Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book provides myraid ways to use a chair to enhance one's yoga practice. It is replete with photographs depicting demonstrations of the poses and different uses of the chair(s). It is well laid out and even gives step-by-step progressions into many asanas. This book would be a valuable tool for any yoga teacher. I learned 3 different ways to use a chair in yoga just on page 2! This is exactly the book I was looking to add to my yoga instruction collection. My only complaints are that there are several typos and grammatical errors throughout the book, the photos could have better lighting, and the paper quality is poor.

[Jezz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Te da buenas recomendaciones para el uso de silla en tu práctica de yoga, te muestra algunas posturas básicas y otras más avanzadas. Exelente libro para planear una clase de yoga.