In this two-hour workshop, you’ll explore creative and effective ways to enrich your practice using one of the most versatile tools in the Iyengar tradition: the chair.
Schedule:
Saturday February 7: 1:30 to 3:30 pm pt
Members: $59.50 | Non-Member: $70.00
Workshop Description
In this two-hour workshop, you’ll explore creative and effective ways to enrich your practice using one of the most versatile tools in the Iyengar tradition: the chair. With its support, the chair can bring stability, create space, extend your reach, and deepen your understanding of the poses. Together, we will work through a full range of asanas, standing poses, seated work and twists, forward and backward extensions, and inversions while discovering how the chair can make challenging shapes more accessible and refine those you already know. Through alignment, balance, and spinal extension, the practice naturally encourages the inward quieting of Pratyahara, allowing the mind to settle into greater calm and well-being.
You will learn to
Build confidence and improve balance across a variety of poses
Stretch more fully and experience greater spinal elongation
Hold poses longer to feel their depth with clarity
Explore asanas in playful, creative, and insightful ways
This workshop is open to all levels of students seeking fresh, supportive, and intelligent ways to incorporate the chair into their yoga practice.
Experience the power of support. Join us and discover how the chair can invite ease, sensitivity, and awareness opening new pathways into your practice.
Saturday February 7: 1:30 to 3:30 pm pt
Bio: Birgit Reimer, a certified Iyengar yoga teacher (CIYT) at the Intermediate Junior I level, and has been teaching since 2002. Her primary teachers are Prashant Iyengar, Ben Thomas and Elise Browning Miller. She has been to Pune numerous times to study with the Iyengar family. Birgit is has also completed Elise Miller’s Yoga for Scoliosis Teacher Training. She encourages all students of yoga to practice with awareness of the breath, an open mind and a compassionate heart on and off the mat.