This practical guide will teach you everything you need to know about using a chair to improve your practice of Iyengar Yoga.

If you are a beginner and flexibility challenges you, this guide will show you how to do the poses you find difficult, and relax in them, so your muscles will be able to soften and elongate. If your level is intermediate, this guide will show you how to extend the range and duration of the poses safely. If you are advanced, this guide will help you to work on difficult and challenging poses. If you are a teacher, this guide will give you many useful and enjoyable ideas for using chairs in your classes.

Eyal Shifroni is a Senior Iyengar yoga teacher and holds a Ph.D degree in Computer Science. He directs the Iyengar Yoga Center of Zichron-Ya’akov in Israel and conducts yoga workshops in Israel and around the world.

Please note that for some of the poses shown in this book a chair with front bar is required. Most poses can be practised using chairs with or without a front bar.