How You Can Benefit By Chair Yoga.

Posted by Nirmala Subramanian on Fri, Mar 5, 2010  
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Chair yoga is practiced on the chair or lying down in bed and is done by people who cannot do ordinary yoga exercises due to physical injury. This yoga is recommended for people who have undergone surgery of the limbs along with other physical rehabilitation methods. Yes, most teachers of chair yoga are therapists, who have knowledge of the bodily functions along with the basics of yoga. These teachers help their recuperating patients by teaching them and asking them to practice chair yoga.

 

Chair yoga could be of a lot of benefits to persons who develop a keen and creative mind and attitude to life. One who practices chair yoga is sure to benefit both physically and psychologically by increase in flexibility of ones body along with an excellent way to get over mental diseases and disorders by raising the spirit of the individual and making him feel he will be soon fit and strong. Yes, one is sure to find increase in circulation and oxygenation. One who learns and practices chair yoga guided by a cheerful and optimistic instructor can hope to become physically and mentally active and optimistic.

 

Chair yoga has been really beneficial for patients recovering from heart attack, stroke and car accidents. This type of yoga increases the flexibility of the body, besides increase of muscle tone. In addition it is an excellent way to get over mental diseases and disorders, like depression and anxiety that becomes common in such people. Besides chair yoga is a substitute for weight bearing exercises and teaches one to support the body weight, leading to increased bone density and prevention of osteoporosis. Hence the healthy body helps to compliment a healthy mind too.

 

Yes, chair yoga, done in the chair or lying down builds positive thinking in those who practice it. They have the courage to come back to what they were doing before. They feel obliged to their instructor for having helped them.  Chair yoga has helped them increase their muscle tone by stretching and flexing their muscles. It has also helped them building relationships with those who practice this form of yoga with them. These relationships increase their enthusiasm to do chair yoga, by being helped and helping their group members. They are relieved of anxiety, stress, tension, and are prevented from depression. 

 

Chair Yoga is ideal for senior citizens, who suffer from aches and pains and rigidity of the body. They could sure get over their loneliness also by enrolling for such classes. Chair yoga could sure enhance their physical and mental enthusiasm and act as a guard against mental diseases and disorders. Chair yoga could sure also prevent further damage to senior citizens suffering from serious disorders like dementia and Azhelmeirs disease.   

 

 

Participants of chair Yoga classes are also given access to more health and nutrition education. Chair yoga helps a person to physically and mentally relax by deep breathing and relaxation exercises and meditation. To conclude the practicers of chair yoga are surly mentally alert and healthy people who believe in positive thinking and the good things of life.

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