Chair Yoga: yoga for everyone!

Learn some simple tips for new yoga students, and read a general overview of what yoga and Chair Yoga is.

Enjoy a 5 min home or office Yoga break (Chair Yoga). Even 5 minutes a day refreshes the body and mind.

Take a 11 minute seated Chair Yoga break at home or work, with modified yoga postures (asanas) and guided breathing and relaxation practices. These yoga postures can improve your flexibility, concentration, circulation, mobility, strength, balance, energy and ability to focus. Relaxation, breathing exercises and meditation calm the mind and bring clarity. Yoga is for everyone!

Seated Chair Yoga -20 minutes at home or work, with modified yoga postures (asanas) and guided breathing and relaxation practices. These yoga postures can improve your flexibility, concentration, circulation, mobility, strength, balance, energy and ability to focus. Relaxation, breathing exercises and meditation calm the mind and bring clarity.

Includes a guided relaxation pose at the end.

*Filmed on Paradise Island, Bahamas with relaxing ocean waves images and sounds. Yoga is for everyone!

30 minute Chair Yoga (seated) practice, as featured on Cable TV, with Stacie Dooreck. Yoga is for everyone! For beginners, seniors and all levels, ages and abilities. This can be done in a wheelchair or chair or can give ideas on how to adapt yoga poses at your desk (at work).

30 min seated Chair Yoga class (as featured on Cable TV in 2019!)

40 Min Chair Yoga seated and standing practice.

This practice starts out as a gentle seated practice with seated poses and warm-ups (same as the 20 minute seated video prior). Then it continues with standing poses options, concluding with a guided brief relaxation to calm the mind and relax the nerves.

Enjoy the healing waters of the Caribbean ocean and the actual sound of the ocean waves. Filmed on Paradise Island, Bahamas.

Chair Yoga class, standing and seated options, with pranayama and relaxation yoga techniques for calming the body and mind.

This class is useful for seniors with limited mobility, injuries, pre or post surgery, while traveling or at work, or if needed the support of a chair.

This is also useful for yoga teachers to learn ideas how you can modify yoga poses so that it is accessible for all ages and stages of life. Yoga is for everyone!

Filmed live online, January 2021

Take a Chair Yoga break at home or work, with yoga or modified yoga postures (asanas) and guided breathing and relaxation practices. These yoga postures can improve your flexibility, concentration, circulation, mobility, strength, balance, energy and ability to focus. Relaxation, breathing exercises and meditation calm the mind and bring clarity. Yoga is for everyone!

Taught by Stacie, Certified Yoga Instructor, creator of SunLight Chair Yoga teacher trainings and self-paced online courses and author of SunLight Chair Yoga: yoga for everyone! books. www.sunlightchairyoga.com

Skip or modify any poses if there is discomfort. Consult with your doctor before starting this exercise and yoga video for any health concerns or precautions. Stacie Dooreck is not liable for any injury sustained as a result of practicing video.

Sun Salutes Using a Wall for Support (3 min video):

Sun Salutes using a wall (instead of a chair) can be useful for low back pain or wrist pain (if the chair base or top is too low, the wall gives other height options).

Enjoy a 20 minute guided relaxation break to relax the body and mind. Refresh and restore your energy so you can concentrate at work and enjoy the work day more! This also helps you sleep better and feel more peace of mind.

Guided Relaxation, with yogic progressive relaxation techqniues for the body and mind. 10 min video which can be practiced in a chair or lying down. If you have space in your office that is quiet as well, you can enjoy this guided relaxation in a chair, for a break in the work day. Some say that 10 minute of yogic conscious relaxation is more referring than a full night sleep.

Learn simple yogic breathing exercises to calm the mind and improve concentration. This can bring clarity, with just a few minutes of day of practice. These exercises also prepare the mind for meditation and can enhance creativity. When the mind is more clear, we feel more calm, focused and at ease.

Healing affirmations by Yogananada.

You can make up your own as well, but this will give you ideas how you can create a healing, positive atmosphere in the body by using mental techniques of affirming positive and healing thoughts.

Enjoy a 10 min meditation from a live online class. Meditation helps you focus, relax and gain clarity. There are so many benefits! Enjoy! Namaste, Stacie

15 Min Meditation & Pranayama (breathing practices) in Sedona, AZ. You can sit in a chair, if more comfortable for this meditation and practice.

Create a daily meditation habit for mental peace, more clarity and a calmer mind.

Namaste,

Stacie

20 Min Meditation and Calming Breath (15 min in silence). Filmed at the Avenue of the Giants, N. CA redwoods.

You can use this video to create a daily 20 minute stress management and meditation practice.

Enjoy!
Namaste,

Stacie

Take a Yoga break with yoga postures (asanas), guided breathing and relaxation practices. Yoga postures can improve your flexibility, concentration, circulation, mobility, strength, balance, energy and ability to focus. Relaxation, breathing exercises and meditation calm the mind and bring clarity. Yoga is for everyone!

This episode was on Marin Cable TV in 2019 and 2020.

Taught by Stacie, Certified Yoga Instructor, creator of SunLight Chair Yoga teacher trainings and self-paced online courses and author of SunLight Chair Yoga: yoga for everyone! books.

Enjoy a relaxing, passively held yoga pose class for deep healing.

Unwind after a long day or use this video when you need to de-stress and relax the nerves and mind. It can also be useful after a long day or workout, to relax the muscles and body as well.

Namaste,

Stacie

Ahimsa (अहिंसा) is the Sanskrit term for non-violence or non-harming.  This way of being embraces the concept of not harming ourselves, our bodies, the earth we live on or the animals, both wild and domesticated. Shifting to or keeping a vegetarian or vegan diet to help create a healthier body and a more peaceful mind can be a simple process. 

“All slaughter-houses should be abolished, and the use of animal flesh as food should be absolutely given up. Flesh-eating is unnecessary, unnatural, and unwholesome. The countless instances of reputed philosophers, authors, scholars, athletes, saints, Yogins, Rishis who lived on vegetable diet conclusively prove that vegetarian diet produces supreme powers both of mind and body, and is highly conducive for divine contemplation and practice of Yoga.

Man is created a frugivorous or fruit-eating creature. This scientific fact is evident on a comparison with the carnivorous animals from whom he differs completely in respect of his internal organs, teeth, and external appearances, whereas, anatomically, he is most intimately allied to the anthropoid apes whose diet consists of fruits, cereals, and nuts.” Sivananda from Bliss divine

Read more in this lesson.

A brief 3 minute video to introduce the concept of ahimsa (non-violence) and contemplations of having compassion for all animals. Our eating choices can reflect harmony, peace and compassion.

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances of survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -Albert Einstein

Enjoy some healthy vegan recipes.  Learn how to eat and cook with kindness. Eating a vegetarian and vegan plant based diet not only helps the animals, but improves our health as well as the environment. Making choices to eat with compassion benefits the earth, the animals and our own bodies and minds.

Enjoy healthy vegan, plant based recipes!

A gentle yoga practice (on the floor, not using chairs) with reflections on aniaml rights, compassion and our diet. Learn why the yogis do not eat animals. Harmony with all beings can include the animals. We can choose a compassionate and more sustainable diet, in harmony with the animals, our bodies and the earth.

Learn a Chair Yoga at Work practice, all seated. Relax the body and mind and refresh yourself with Chair Yoga break. Video filmed by the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. This is also useful at  home or those with chronic illness. Modify as needed, for any injuries, or discomfort. Yoga is for everyone!

Take a 10 minute Chair Yoga break at home or work, with modified yoga postures (asanas) and guided breathing and relaxation practices. These yoga postures can improve your flexibility, concentration, circulation, mobility, strength, balance, energy and ability to focus. Relaxation, breathing exercises and meditation calm the mind and bring clarity. Yoga is for everyone!

Take a break from sitting all day with a standing yoga practice, using the desk for support. Try it at home or work. In just 3 minutes you can improve your balance and concentration and calm the mind.

10 Min Office Yoga Break: Guided Breathing Exercises for Concentration and Focus (and to calm the mind).

Enjoy this guided practice before meditation or at your office, or home office as a 10 min lunch hour or evening break.

I have been teaching yoga at companies for 20+ years so know it is so beneficial.

Namaste,

Stacie