Restoring Flexibility: A Gentle Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age - Softcover

Gilats, Andrea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612434916 ISBN 13: 9781612434919

Publisher: Ulysses Press, 2021

Synopsis

A FULLY ILLUSTRATED, STEP-BY-STEP PROGRAM THAT IMPROVES THE MOBILITY OF SENIORS AND PROMOTES LONG-TERM HEALTH

No matter what age you begin doing yoga, it will help you steadily renew your physical abilities. Done over four weeks, this 25-minute, twice-weekly program features gentle poses, practice sequences and techniques to help you:

Improve your posture

Increase spinal flexibility

Release tightness in your shoulders

Relax the muscles in your torso

Expand mobility in your hip joints

Reduce the chances of falling

This book’s safe, age-appropriate, customizable approach to yoga-based exercise is specifically designed to restore your flexibility, mobility, and agility while ensuring a longer life and more independent lifestyle. As this flexibility practice becomes a regular habit, you’ll feel more energetic and enjoy moving freely. Your favorite physical activity, like walking, golf and even dancing, will once again became a personal pleasure.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrea Gilats, Ph.D., R.Y.T., is a certified yoga teacher, writer, and nationally recognized expert on later-life learning who spent three decades as an award-winning educational leader at the University of Minnesota. Through Third Age Yoga, her community-based teaching practice, she has worked with hundreds of vital people in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond who seek a body-sensitive, age-appropriate approach to yoga. Her Third Age Yoga videos have been viewed over 20,000 times on YouTube, and she offers helpful tidbits about yoga, exercise, and aging well on her Third Age Yoga Facebook page.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1612434916
• ISBN 13: 9781612434919
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144