Chair Yoga

Perfect for all ages and fitness levels, Chair Yoga adapts traditional yoga poses so that they can be done with a chair, making yoga more accessible to everyone.

Yoga

Basics & Safety

Guidelines and precautions for a safe yoga practice, ensuring safety during yoga movements.

Standing Poses

Seated Poses

Flow Sequences

Warmups

Breathing & Meditation

Lunges

Chair Sun Salutation

Great sequence to warm up your body and prepare for yoga practice. It is a moving meditation emulating the Sun.

Balancing Half Moon

Great pose to improve your balance, open up your hips and strengthen the legs.

Standing Triangle

Great stretch for your back, torso and inner thighs.

Chair Sun Salutation

Great sequence to warm up your body and prepare for yoga practice.

Balancing Half Moon

Great pose to improve your balance, open up your hips and strengthen the legs.

Standing Triangle

Great stretch for your back, torso and inner thighs.

Chair Out of Chair

Great sequence to warm up your body and prepare for yoga practice.

Reverse (Exalted) Warrior

Great pose to create flexibility through the intercostals of the front torso.

Seated Boat Pose

Amazing pose to strengthen your core, hip flexors and the back. Raises your heart rate up.

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TOP Antioxidant-Rich Foods

Avocado
Artichokes
Apricots
Berries
Beans
Broccoli
Carrots
Capsicum
Coffee
Dark Chocolate
Green Tea
Garlic
Grapes and Grapefruit
Kale
Kiwi
Mango
Nuts
Oranges
Onion
Poultry
Parsley
Pumpkin
Red Wine
Red Cabbage
Strawberries
Spinach
Seafood
Tea

Foods that contain Omega-3 FA

The American Heart Association recommends eating two servings of fish (particularly fatty fish) per week. A serving is 3.5 ounces cooked or about a cup of flaked fish.

Common fish and seafood products rich in Omega-3 [5]

Seafood	Serving Size	Omega-3 FA (mg/serving)
Anchovy	2.0 oz	1,200
Catfish (farmed)	5.0 oz	253
Clams	3.0 oz	241
Cod (Atlantic)	6.3 oz	284
Crab	3.0 oz	351
Fish sticks (frozen)	3.2 oz	193
Halibut	5.6 oz	740
Lobster	3.0 oz	71
Mahi mahi	5.6 oz	221
Mussels	3.0 oz	665
Oysters	3.0 oz	585
Pollock (Alaskan)	2.1 oz	281
Salmon (wild)	6.0 oz	1,774
Salmon (farmed)	6.0 oz	4,504
Sardines	2.0 oz	556
Scallops	3.0 oz	310
Shrimp	3.0 oz	267
Swordfish	3.7 oz	868
Trout	2.2 oz	581
Tuna (albacore)	3.0 oz	733
Tuna (light, skipjack)	3.0 oz	228