Have you ever thought, “I’d really like to try yoga, but I need to get in shape first”? Maybe you want to get a little stronger first. Or work on your flexibility. Maybe your balance isn’t what it used to be, you haven’t exercised in years, or you’re worried you’ll walk into a yoga class…

When you feel tight, it seems logical to stretch. And if a little stretching is good, going a little deeper must be better… right? Not necessarily. One of the biggest things I want my yoga students to understand about flexibility is that it isn’t something you have to force. In fact, continually pulling harder or…

Lately, almost every conversation I have with my students over 50 circles back to the same thing. Someone has told them they need to lift heavy. A doctor, a trainer, a headline, a well-meaning daughter. And they come to me a little anxious, asking if the yoga they love is “enough,” or whether they’re falling…

I’ve spent most of the last month at my desk sequencing thirty classes for a new beginner program, and it did something to my thinking I wasn’t expecting. Some context, in case this is the first thing of mine you’ve read. I’m a yoga therapist with a master’s degree in yoga therapy, and I work…

If you have been trying to work out how often you actually need to do yoga before anything changes, you have probably noticed that nobody answers the question. You can find a thousand people who will tell you that yoga is good for your body after 50. Finding one who will tell you plainly how…

I have started wearing nose strips to bed. The little ones that stretch across the bridge of your nose. My husband Bill snores, and somewhere in the middle of paying attention to his breathing, I started paying closer attention to my own. Here is what I noticed. During the day, I can control how I…

I keep having the same conversation. A student mentions, almost in passing, that she finally went and got a bone density scan. And it came back showing osteoporosis, or osteopenia, the early version of it. She had no idea. No symptoms, nothing that felt wrong. Just a number on a scan she almost didn’t bother…

Ten years ago, before I had any of the training I have now, I taught yoga to a room full of people in memory care. They put my class at the hardest possible time of day. Late afternoon, when many of them were sundowning and their attention was scattered and hard to hold. I walked…

This post is adapted from Yoga for Longevity, my podcast where I share therapeutic yoga tools for healthy aging. I’m Mikah Horn, yoga therapist and founder of Lifelong Yoga Online, a membership designed especially for adults 50 and beyond. If you want a way to put what you read here into practice, you can explore…

This post is adapted from Yoga for Longevity, my podcast where I share therapeutic yoga tools for healthy aging. I’m Mikah Horn, yoga therapist and founder of Lifelong Yoga Online, a membership designed especially for adults 50+. If you’re looking for a way to put the things you learn in this episode into practice, you…

Aging brings wisdom we wouldn’t trade… but it also brings moments that can feel frustrating, unfamiliar, and deeply personal. Movements change. Healing takes longer. The body asks for more patience than we sometimes want to give it. And in a culture that constantly encourages us to optimize, improve, and push harder, it’s easy to start…

A change of scenery can do something surprisingly powerful. You sleep a little deeper. You breathe a little slower. Ideas come more easily. Even your body can feel different… less tense, less rushed, more awake. Most of us think of that “reset” feeling as something emotional or spiritual, but there’s actually science behind it. New…