Yoga Basics: Chair Pose Video

Work the arms and legs with the yoga Chair Pose. Learn the yoga Chair Pose from a professional fitness trainer in this video on health and fitness.

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Begin at the top of your mat and lower the hips as though you are sitting in a chair
Try to take the thighs as parallel to the floor as possible
Keep the inner thighs parallel and weight back into the gluteals
Maintain the stability of the shoulder blades

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Joseph Seeman, celebrity trainer has a BFA in Dance. He is Anusara certified in yoga and Johnny G certified for indoor cycling. He has a full roster celebrity clients and personal training clientel. Joseph has been an intergral part of the iTRAIN team at iTRAIN.com. ITRAIN.com is your own "Hollywood personal trainer right in your pocket." Each audio and video workout consists of an elite Hollywood Trainer or World Champion Athlete mixed with original music to satisfy your workout needs. iTRAIN provides more than 275 workouts in its library ranging from treadmill to elliptical, cycling, strength training, and many more.

Hi, welcome to yoga basics my name is Joseph and in this segment I'm going to help you out with "chair pose". So with "chair pose" you want your feet to be hips width apart and hips width is only a couple of inches, some times you think this is hip's width - whoa not so much. Just bring it in just a couple of inches. Toes pointing forward, now bend your knees and place your elbows to start on top of the thighs. So one of the things that I like to think about is if you have ever gone skiing, (one of my favorite past times) it's the same elements. You want your skis to point straight down the mountain. If they cross, well, we know what happens then. So we want to keep the skis straight out elbows on the thighs. Now from there you are going to root through the tailbone and reach up through the arms. You might start feeling a sensation through the thighs, that's cool, but I want you to drop back into your heels a little bit more and and get the back of your legs. Take a full breath in and exhale. Let's take the hands into the floor into a forward bend and then bring your hands to your hips and roll your shoulders back. I am going to do one facing this way so you see that side view of it. So again toes are parallel, squat down placing the elbows on the thighs for now just to line it up. Again, think of those skis pointing straight down the mountain. Then drop the tail bone and rise up through the arms. If my weight is too far forward, it looks like this, so what I want to do is to keep my weight back on my heels so the back of the leg as well as the top of the leg work together. Inhale, stand straight up and exhale. Bring the hands back together at the heart. So those are some of the fundamentals of "chair pose", have fun with it. This is yoga basis and my name is Joseph. Namaste.

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