"For a little bit more work, chair pose takes up no space at all, and from there you can do twists," McMullen says. To try the pose:
- Sit back into your heels.
- Bend your knees deeply, keeping them in line with one another.
- Lift your arms overhead while maintaining a long spine.
McMullen goes on to explain that twists are especially useful to add into your practice because breathing deeply into these particular poses is believed to have a detoxifying effect. To do this, she says to hook your elbow outside of the opposite leg and sit deeply into the chair pose. McMullen says you could also twist from one side to the other to activate your abdominal muscles. According to Colell, this was one of the power poses she did in her own dorm to challenge herself. "I feel like those really energize me even though they're so hard," she says.
