Learn to sit for chair yoga | Yoga with Rita - Fulcrum Blu

The home base of yoga poses for chair yoga is an active pose that requires engagement - learn how to sit tall with your legs and arms active to prepare for a chair yoga practice.
00:18 Adjustments require when chair height 18 - 20 in; practitioner heights vary so much more
00:43 Sit forward on sitz bones
00:48 Thighs parallel - if not elevate feet or hips
01:00 Sitting tall in chair like tadasana
01:20 Rock on sitz bones
01:49 Side to side movement on sitz bones
02:05 Knee alignment over ankles
02:28 Sit forward on chair or use a blanket to support spinal elongation
02:55 Foundation - pelvis plus energizing legs from feet engagement on floor
03:43 Inner rotate arms - notice upper back rounding
03:53 Externally rotate upper arms to notice how that opens the upper chest area
04:19 Side body defined from pelvis to armpit
04:25 Lengthen side body muscles with spread fingers wide movement to reach up
05:08 Sit tall
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