Enhances mobility, balance, posture, and functional strength.
For Your Brain
Improves memory, focus, stress reduction, and emotional regulation.
For Your Spirit
Supports clarity, groundedness, and a deeper sense of meaning and purpose.
Are you feeling stressed?
Here's a new resource from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: Copy and paste this into your browser: https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/stress Look for: Reset on Stress to get the pdf.
The great news is that slow, mindful yoga provides tools for the strategies suggested!
Are you new to yoga? Here's what the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health says about yoga: Yoga: What You Need to Know
But here's what else you need to know: Not all yoga is the same. Not all yoga classes offer the same experience. Not all yoga teachers teach in the same way. Not all yoga styles may be supportive of you as you age.
WHY WOULD YOU CONSIDER YOGA?
Do any of these describe you?
You are stressed to the max from what's happening in the world, and you want to calm your stress response.
You're having trouble focusing, and you'd like to develop some skills for concentration.
You just don't know what to do, even though you want to do something to make a difference in your community, this country, and the world.
You're looking for a way to find greater agency in creating your own healing and well-being.
You want to move gracefully and powerfully through the rest of your life, and you can't quite figure out what that might look like or how to find the right tools.
You have an adverse reaction to even hearing the word "yoga" because of what the media shows us.
You're overwhelmed with the amount of yoga available online and don't know how to choose what would be most safe and effective for you.
You tried yoga in the past but think that you're no longer able to do it because of current limitations you might have - whether temporary or your "new normal."
You've done yoga before, but haven't found a style that works for you at this point in your life.
If you find yourself reflected in any of these statements, I invite you to read on and get acquainted with slow, mindful yoga and how it can support you!
Your curiosity, wisdom, and life experience brought you here... now find out more.
Whatever your age, body shape or size, it's possible to:
feel calmer.
sleep better.
think more clearly.
improve your balance.
nurture your well-being as you age with skill and grace.