Product Description
What is Chair Yoga?
Chair Yoga is NOT just for the elderly! This is for you if for any reason you can’t get down on the mat. Low-impact, safe and gentle chair yoga exercises, postures and breathing techniques will improve your quality of life no matter how old you are.
With so many types of Yoga available, here is one that most of us can practice. Inversions and complicated manoeuvres are not necessary in a Chair Yoga class. Easier still, with this STRETCH.chairyoga DVD you can exercise in the comfort of your own home, on your favourite chair!
Any number of common Yoga postures can be modified to be practiced, also breathing techniques, meditation, and stage-by-stage relaxation, with the aid of a chair. Standing postures, such as Triangle and Warrior variations, can be practiced seated or standing, and you can also practice Sun Salutations or Vinyasa, (flowing postures), from seated or standing positions. Yes, even abs strengthening exercises can be done in a chair!
All the benefits of traditional yoga can be attained. Flexibility, balance, circulation and energy levels will be improved as well as relief from hypertension, anxiety, chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis chronic pain on limbs and joints.
Chair Yoga does not have any recognition as a distinct or unique school of yoga like other disciplines such as Sivananda, Kundalini, or Bikram Yoga, but its practices comprise poses (or Asanas) that are generally adaptations of poses from the discipline known as Hatha Yoga.
PATRICIA MCCALLUM’S ‘STRETCH.chairyoga’, 3 DVD Set of programs.
Patricia McCallum has practiced yoga and meditation since 1995 and holds a Master of Teaching certification from the renowned Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy in India, where she lived for 15 years.
It was in India that she learnt that, according to yoga philosophy, it’s the flexibility of the spine, not the number of years that determines age.
Based on that philosophy, Patricia created these 3 STRETCH.chairyoga exercising programs specifically for the physically challenged or older person and particularly for anyone who has trouble walking, standing, bending or balancing.
Designed to build energy, posture, balance and flexibility, the exercises presented in the Level 1 (Beginners), 45 minute, STRETCH.chairyoga DVD, Level 2 (Advanced Beginners) and Level 3 (Intermediate) involve a variety of low impact stretching, strengthening and breathing routines, still while seated or chair-assisted standing.
The exercise programs Patricia personally conducts in these DVDs are presented in a comfortable living room setting, rather than in a studio, since the users tend to be home bodies, whether working at home or retired, who will be practicing these exercises themselves in a home setting.
Patricia’s STRETCH.chairyoga DVD’s are each approximately 45 minutes long, purposely, so as to respond to the users’ needs for:
1. adequate warm-up time, to avoid injury;
2. adequate time for deep-breathing practice (for energy building & relaxation);
3. adequate time for the gentle, low-impact nature of the exercise program;
4. adequate time for the Total Relaxation routine to rest the body completely before re-entering the ‘real world’ of everyday living.
Each DVD contains:
1. A 2 minute introduction by Patricia;
2. 15 minutes of gentle, warm-up exercises (including deep breathing techniques), necessary requirements for any person prior to exercise, especially for the less-active or older person, in order to prevent injury;
3. 20 minutes of seated and chair-assisted standing, low-impact exercises with deep breathing;
4. To conclude, an 8 minute routine in total body relaxation.
Ready to start: Live Longer, Grab a Chair.
For further information go to www.stretch-chairyoga.com, or search Amazon.com’s ‘Movies & TV’ section for ‘Patricia McCallum’ and her other Chair Yoga DVDs.
This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply.
STRETCH.chairyoga with Patricia McCallum including the LEVELS 1, 2 and 3 programs of gentle sitting & standing exercises for the ageless ‘over 50s’, seniors & elderly that include low impact stretching, strengthening & breathing routines to improve energy, posture, balance & flexibility.
