Chair yoga provides a safe practice that allows anyone to perform many yoga positions with grace. The chair provides a vehicle that allows calming and fluid movement without stress on joints. This movement helps the practitioner to improve physically and boost brain function.
The chair safely provides support, aligns the spine and eases stress on joints while doing yoga poses. As one does standing poses with chair support, the use of the chair allows joints and muscles to move to the correct position to achieve the openness needed to optimize the stretch.
Harmony Yoga and Dance Healing Arts Center’s chair yoga class participants will follow a gentle movement sequence based on tai chi, which allows the energy to flow and promotes the circulation of blood and oxygen throughout the entire body, including hands and feet. When blood flow increases to muscles, inner organs and the brain, the nervous system balances out.
Another benefit of the proper execution of chair yoga poses is to decreased pain and reduce mood swings. Additionally, a regular yoga practice helps to reduce anxiety, fatigue and the sleepless nights experienced by many older people.
“I believe that as our body and mind become calm and strong, our heart will be filled with joy and lightened by grace,” says Harmony Yoga owner and founder Mariko Fusillo. “Yoga connects body, mind and sprit as a whole, and chair yoga allows students to smile in the face of their limitations and disabilities.”
Location: 3050 Merrick Rd., Wantagh. For more information, visit HarmonyYogaAndDance.com.
