The Regenerative Power of Yoga: Chair Yoga for Seniors

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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
- Rachel Carson

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I think if yoga were a season, it would be spring.  Both the arrival of spring and practicing yoga are regenerative.  As more and more research emerges, there is good evidence that yoga and meditation have some anti-aging benefits, such as lowered inflammation, increased gray matter in the brain, and protection for our chromosomes.

Just like spring, this regeneration is not just physical.  Yoga (and the arrival of spring) brings profound emotional - even spiritual - regeneration.  How do we feel after a yoga class?  Lighter, less encumbered by stress, and as if we are seeing everything with new eyes.

But one of the things that makes me saddest when talking to some yoga beginners is that they think it’s too late for yoga to have these positive effects on them.  That could not be further from the truth.  I’ve taught yoga to people of all ages, from 7 weeks old to 77 years old.  

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