Striving4Zen

Sitting Mountain
This pose is done best from a chair.

• Sit tall in a chair with your feet flat on the floor and your shoulders relaxed under your ears.
• Place your hands palms up on your lap.
• Cross your wrists in front of your solar plexus.
• Interlace your fingers and raise your arms as high as is comfortable and look at the back of your hand (make sure that you do not hyper-extend your neck).
  
• Repeat once.
  

Joint-Opening Exercise
This pose can be done in a chair or on the floor.

• Return to the first phase of Sitting Mountain.
• Extend both of your arms out to your sides, palms facing the floor.
• Inhale as you bring your right arm over your head, bending slightly at the waist. Exhale as you return to center.
  
• Repeat with the right side.
  

Peaceful Warrior
This pose is done best from a chair.

• Return to the first phase of Sitting Mountain
• Turn to the right side of your chair and extend your left leg behind you, pressing the heel back.
• Raise your arms above your head, arch as much as is comfortable and look up, taking care not to hyper-extend your neck.

Cat Cow Pose
This pose is done best from a chair.

• Return to the first phase of Sitting Mountain
• Exhale, pressing your spine to the back of the chair
• Inhale, pulling your abdominal region forward, lifting the chest and chin up (remember to take care not to hyper-extend the neck)
• Repeat as desired.

Source

Labels: living holistically, office, yoga, yoga poses