YOGA FOR HEALTHY AGING
Yoga helps maintain your bone health, strengthens core muscles for better posture, and improves balance. Yoga can also aid in reducing joint pain, improve joint flexibility, and also strengthen the muscles around your joints. Most importantly, yoga strengthens the muscles used for breathing and can help you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.
By starting a yoga practice you’ll be supporting your body as it transitions into the next stage. The increased flexibility and balance will have you feeling younger than ever and setting you up for a long and healthy life
Offered at Boston Yoga Union - Coolidge.
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Physical benefits
Maintain a healthy skeleton
Strengthen posture
Improve balance
Increase core stability
Improve circulation
Decrease joint stiffness
Mental benefits
Engender confidence
Calm the nervous system
Improve breathing
Improve sleep
Any of our classes can be used in your healthy aging practice. Just remember to listen to your body and come out of any pose or sequence that doesn’t feel right or causes physical pain. If you're looking for healthy aging specific classes, try one of these styles:
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Chair Yoga with Heather La Force
The use of a chair in your practice increases accessibility like other props such as blocks, blankets and bolsters. It is a creative method that can support the body in all modes, but can be especially useful in times of injury, limited mobility or strength.
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Gentle Yoga
This class is designed to gently open the body, slowly build strength and improve flexibility in a safe and supportive way. We will practice seated, standing, and reclining to open up in all directions while being kind to the joints.
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Bone Health with Masha Leuner
Designed to maintain a healthy skeleton, strengthen posture, and improve balance. Students will be introduced to Dr. Fishman’s Yoga for Bone Health method so that they can maintain and improve bone health.
