Category: Aging Gracefully

Aging Gracefully with Strength, Balance, Mobility, and Minfulness

Mar 29, 2025

This is Your Over 50 Body on Yoga

Any questions? 😉🤣 As we age, our body becomes less adaptable to what we do to it. When you were 20, you could pull an all nighter, sleep a couple of hours, then be fine. If you try that when you are older, it might take you a week (or more) to recover and feel
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Mar 25, 2025

A Simple Spinal Movement to Save Your Back

A healthy spine moves in four ways: flexion (rounding forward), extension (backward bending), rotation (twisting), and the topic for today, lateral flexion (side bending). Our most common position is flexion, as that’s what we do when we slouch. However slouching all the time leads to pain, especially in the neck and back. To undo the strain of being in constant flexion, it’s important
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Mar 15, 2025

Calming your Mind by Controlling your Breath

When you control your breath, you affect how you feel Many people understand how taking five deep breaths can shift you from feeling stressed to feeling calm. Learning to breathe deeply and slowly calms the nervous system, getting you out of “fight or flight” and back into “rest and digest.” Learning to control your breath
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Mar 12, 2025

Why is Meditation So Hard?

It’s only hard when you don’t understand what it is and how to do it. As a yoga instructor, I hear it all the time: “I can’t meditate because…” Your mind will give you a million reasons why you can’t do it, and I would bet that none of them are actually true. When you
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Mar 8, 2025

Get to Know Your Hips with the Magic of Hip Openers

In the yoga asana practice we often talk about a category of stretching poses called “Hip Openers.” They don’t refer to the area where you “put your hands on your hips,” but target the group of muscles surrounding the hip joints. The “Hips” include the Gluteal muscles (Gluteus maximus, Gluteus medius, and Gluteus minimus), the
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