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Yoga Off the Mat: Living with Intention
Uncategorized | Yoga for Healthy Aging | Yoga Therapy

Yoga Off the Mat: Living with Intention

I’ll be honest with you about something. The part of yoga that changed my life the most was never the poses. It was the mindfulness. Over the years it taught me to be less reactive, to make better decisions, to move through my days with more intention. But lately, I felt some of that slipping….

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Lots of benefits to Eagle pose: You’re working you Lots of benefits to Eagle pose: You’re working your balance and focus, mobilizing your hips, and opening across your upper back and shoulders. It’s a full bind, top and bottom of the body at once.

Here’s how to try it: 

✔️ Set a block by your standing foot. 
✔️ Bend your knees and sit back into your heels.
✔️ Cross your other leg (the one not by the block) over and rest your toes or the ball of that foot on the block.
✔️ Option to add the arms: Wrap one arm over the other and lift your elbows slightly to broaden across the upper back.

Once it feels steady with the block, you can start to lift that foot and wrap a little more whenever you’re ready, gently squeezing your inner thighs together.

Want more accessible movement like this, built for your body over 50?

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Did you know that sitting for long stretches slows Did you know that sitting for long stretches slows the circulation in your legs?

When you stay seated, the muscles that normally help move your blood stop pitching in. Your calves are a big part of that. 

Every time they contract, they squeeze the veins in your legs and push blood back up toward your heart. Some people call them your “second heart” for exactly this reason.

So when you sit for hours, that pump goes still. Blood pools, your legs feel heavy, and you get that stiff, sluggish feeling by the end of the day.

This is one of the simplest fixes I know: chair pose with heel lifts.

Lifting your heels fires up those calf muscles and gets the pump working again.

If you’ve been sitting more than you’d like lately, let this be your nudge to stand up and move!

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I understand where that fear comes from. After a d I understand where that fear comes from. After a diagnosis, a lot of women start moving less, second-guessing themselves, worried that one wrong move could cause harm.

And yes, there are some movements you’ll want to be mindful about. That’s true.

But mindfulness and fear are two different things. You can be intentional about how you move without being afraid to move at all. 

(Because what happens when we stop moving? We lose strength. We lose balance. We lose the very things that protect us from a fall. And a fall is what causes most fractures in the first place.)

What gets you there is knowledge. When you understand which movements to be mindful of, how to modify them, and how to practice safely, you can stop second-guessing yourself and start moving with more confidence.

That is what empowers you: knowing how to move well.

That’s exactly why I’ve started creating Strong Bones, Safe Yoga, my upcoming course for women with osteoporosis and osteopenia who want to practice yoga safely and with confidence.

💪 To be first to know when it opens (and to get the best pricing) comment STRONG and I’ll send you the link to join the priority interest list!
We hear so much about what we lose as we age. Not We hear so much about what we lose as we age. Not enough about what we can still BUILD! Your muscles respond at any age. The body is always ready to get stronger when we ask it to. And I think that's incredibly empowering.

In this week's episode I get into why we lose strength as we get older, and how we can build it back mindfully through yoga.

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