Chair Yoga is an established practice to prevent wrong body postures & poor working habits in executives & workmen. Office/Chair Yoga is a scientific designed program, which evolves easy and simple conscious body movements. All this gentle stretching that is practiced sitting in a chair are coordinated with the help of breath, which make them more effective and reduce general stiffness and overall stress. Studies have shown that a large number people who send more time on chair, and also sitting with wrong postures are more prone to develop joint disorders.

They suffer from back pains, neck pains, stiff back and frozen shoulders that reduce their working efficiency and increases body stiffness. It comprises of 62 simples simple posses including various breathing techniques that can be easily done on office chairs. 




In the present professional scenario and changing life style, everyone is under tremendous pressure. Cut throat competition, uncertainty and instability of a job, achieving targets, managing the business has forced everyone to compromise with their health. As a result of all this, stress and anxiety has multiplied many folds in one’s daily life. Symptoms of which develop are exhaustion, loss of appetite, headache, fatigue, frustration or apathy. The biggest side effect of such a stressful life is depression. The number of cases of depression has increased worldwide. Studies done in the US, England, Australia and India have shown that majority of work absenteeism is directly or indirectly, caused by stress.
Meditation is considered a very important process and tool of Yoga. It plays a vital role in attaining a stress free, calm and peaceful state of mind. All the inner turmoil of thoughts and emotions are to be calmed before one really experiences an inner silence (Antar Mouna).

Antar Mouna

The word Antra defines ‘inner’ and Mouna (moun)means ‘silence’, therefore word means ‘inner silence’. It is a meditation technique that leads to inner tranquility and silence. It comprises of many stages with different experiences.

Procedure:

  • Sit comfortably with upright spine and try to relax the whole body.
  • Close your eyes and keep them closed during the entire practice.
  • Start with awareness of your all sensory organs i.e. touch, smell, sound.
  • Then gradually concentrate on all the different sounds around you.
  • Pick any one of the sounds and try to focus on that particular sound or try to make picture of it.
  • Now bring your entire concentration to the rhythm of your breaths.
  • Start feeling the cool air that comes in and warm air that goes out of the body.
  • Slowly bring your attention to the various thoughts in your mind.
  • Let thoughts arise spontaneously and freely without any restriction or suppression.
  • Do not force the mind to be still or discard any thoughts, try to disassociate from it and watch it like a movie.
  • Select a focal point. Generally, the space between the eyebrows is chosen more by the intellectually inclined people and the Heart by those who tend to be more extroverted with an open and demonstrative nature.
  • Once you start following this process of meditation regularly, never change this focal point.

The purpose of meditation is to create new, positive channels in the mind and to eradicate negative and destructive ones. It is like a clean-up process of the mind. Don't worry if initially the mind starts wandering or behaves hyperactively during the process. It is the normal procedure nature of the mind. Just try to bring it back gently and calmly to the focal point.

  

I was experiencing some kind of leg pain for a long time, but since the past two months my pain has disappeared... - Rizwan Sajan





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