Iyengar Yoga Chair | Backless Yoga Chair for Holding, Alignment, Flexibility | Capacity: 100kg (Yoga Chair + Poster)

This came very quickly. Well made. Exactly what I wanted

Product not damaged but very poor quality control. Pic shows seat paint quality. Never should have passed inspection.

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This is just a normal metal folding chair, marked up by tacking the word 'yoga' on it. But it's sturdy steel, and the cost of metal folding chairs on here varies widely, so if you're a exceptionally thin person you may be able to get by with a 30 dollar normal-backed chair but this cost isn't too out of line otherwise. The packaging should be improved, the too-thin box arrived super beat up and the calendar got damaged. The chair has numerous minor dings but no deep damage or gouges or anything that would make the chair unusable or a safety concern. Assembly just consists of putting the rubber feet onto the chair legs, fast and easy.FYI, if you place this chair onto a mat, it may leave deep divots in your mat that may or may not come out, so something to consider about placement. It leaves divots in both my dense rubber yoga mat, and my MMA/cheer mat, just sitting there with no additional weight on it.I feel that the proportions are nice for me at 5'3", the chair back doesn't dig into my stomach if I bend over on it (for example I can bend over the back and reach towards the floor comfortably). I weigh around 137 lb and I don't feel like the chair will easily tip over or break on me if I'm bent around it or standing on it. But I'm unsure about users who are over 6 feet, or have a high weight. The chair could help you maintain balance on many standing poses if you have balance or strength issues. Since it's a normal chair, it is also useful to use as a portable spare chair, standing stool, or whatever else you may use a chair for. The calendar has lots of useful examples of ways you can use not only this chair, but also straps, blocks, and other props for yoga. So overall, while I think it's a tad overpriced, this chair could be a useful balance help tool for your yoga practice and the calendar is genuinely useful, especially if you don't already own a lot of yoga pose books.The chair could have been a bit more tailored towards yoga specifically if the rubber feet had a wider, heavier base perhaps. There are other chairs that provide more back support and extra legs, but a possible con with that route is those may be less usable for normal chair use, while this one can just easily be used to sit in.

Over all the weight of the chair tells you it is made with quality materials, but the workmanship is grotesque at best. Rough welds, miss-shaped corner (pic 3), no attempt to clean up welds ((pic 5), and the paint job is no better as areas come off on hand and paint flakes off of screw heads (pic 4). The Yoga chart that comes with it has great information although printed on thin paper and the wire binding frankly is completely cheap and fails to protect the chart or function correctly even after being bent back into shape from shipping issues. Because the chair does function correctly and is strong, and the chart is helpful I did give the product 3 stars, however in my personal opinion it is not the best value available.

Ok, I have to be honest. This looks like a regular folding chair that somehow made it past Quality Control without a seat back. To be honest, though, I don't regularly practice Yoga, but my wife does.It turns out she's had a couple Yoga chairs in her Amazon wish list for a while. Who knew?I'm certainly not an expert in the technique, but after watching a few YouTube videos, and talking with my wife, it's clear that properly employing one of these devices can make your sessions far more effective and allow you to do much more, and do so safer than a regular workout done solo, without a chair.Aside from the lack of a seat back, the seat itself has no "carve out" to fit your bum. The product comes with robust rubber feet to minimize slipping, which is yet another safety feature.The chair is well made. It was delivered with the box torn open, but luckily, it was not damaged, and the plastic bag containing the rubber feet hadn't fallen out.Also included is a very nice wall-hanging poster spiral bound book of pose posters. My wife took this to bed with her last night to study it. I'm pretty sure it will find a place on a wall in her exercise room (AKA our guest room) pretty soon.My wife is VERY excited to incorporate this new tool to her daily Yoga sessions.Highly recommended!

This is an expensive chair for what it is. I will say that it's sturdy and heavy. Definitely not going anywhere while you are leaning on it for support. Did I mention it's heavy. Well, it is. Very heavy. I was surprised when moving the box from the hallway into my apartment. How could a folding chair be so heavy? Well, it is. Some reviews mention having to attach the rubber feet. Mine came with them already on.The poster book that comes with it is large like a flip chart. Most of the poses are just regular asana and not shown with a chair modification. Very few images use the chair. Not sure if that was the best choice given that this is the book that comes with the chair, but that's how it is. There's even a inversion modification with TWO chairs, but I only have the one.So, if you have mobility issues, injuries or other needs where a modification would be a benefit, then by all means, grab yourself a chair. The lack of a back makes a huge difference in ease of movement. Iyengar really was a visionary when it came to props and accessibility. A+