Relax into Yoga for Seniors: Six-Week Program
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“Relax into Yoga for Seniors” is your guide to a transformative six-week program designed for strength, balance, flexibility, and pain relief. Specifically tailored for seniors, including those with limited mobility, this evidence-based workbook offers twelve yoga principles with step-by-step instructions and illustrations. It safely addresses age-related challenges like chronic pain and arthritis, promoting overall well-being. Manage physical and emotional aspects of aging, create an individualized practice, and enjoy free downloadable audio practices and PDFs. This program combines modern medicine with ancient yogic wisdom for a healthier, more active life.
- Product Details
- Title: Relax into Yoga for Seniors: A Six-Week Program for Strength, Balance, Flexibility, and Pain Relief
- Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
- Publication date: November 1, 2016
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1626253641
- ISBN-13: 978-1626253643
- Item Weight: 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions: 8 x 0.75 x 10 inches
- Bonus: Includes free downloadable guided audio practices and printable PDFs (details on page 229).
- Advantages
- This evidence-based workbook provides a structured yet adaptable six-week yoga program specifically for seniors. It focuses on safety, with clear instructions, posture illustrations, and considerations for limited mobility and vulnerable bodies. The program helps manage common age-related issues such as chronic pain, arthritis, and anxiety, aiming to improve balance, flexibility, strength, and overall well-being. It empowers users to create an individualized practice and includes valuable supplementary downloadable audio and PDF resources.
- Our Recommendations
We highly recommend “Relax into Yoga for Seniors” for any senior looking to gently introduce or continue yoga, especially those with limited mobility, chronic pain, or concerns about safety. It's also an excellent resource for yoga instructors seeking a reliable, evidence-based guide for teaching older adults. The program's focus on individual needs makes it suitable for a wide range of abilities.
Conclusion
“Relax into Yoga for Seniors” is an invaluable, well-crafted resource that makes yoga accessible and beneficial for older adults. Its evidence-based approach, clear instructions, and focus on safety provide a reliable path to improved physical health and emotional well-being. The inclusion of downloadable materials further enhances its utility, making it a highly recommended guide for seniors seeking a gentler way to stay active and manage age-related challenges.
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mameeskye –
Principles extend not just to seniors but should be followed in every class
Kimberley has 20 years of teaching yoga experience, and like Krucoff with 30 years of practi3 and 18 years of teaching has spent a decade teaching at the Duke University Integrative Health Care centre, producing the first teacher training for Therapeutic Yoga for Seniors in Autumn 2017, where they married safety aspects, knowing the conditions many western seniors presented with , to the Eastern philosophy and practice that is Yoga using the central tenet from practise of “I am not the physical form I experience today. I am not my thoughts. I am not my feelings. These come and go. I am the awareness that doesn’t change.” combined with, as the introduction says, “if you can breathe, you can relax into yoga.”Asanas shown are shown in variations for less strong physical bodies, suitable for more Golden Beginners, along with the message that ‘the critical counterbalance of undoing, of slowing down, of savoring the moment and knowing more fully what life is presenting right now.’ Is key. The authors have 10 principles in their method1. First, do no harm2. Create a safe environment3. Encourage yogic balance (sthira and Sukha, effort and ease)4. Meet yourself where you are5. Emphasis feeling over form6. Honour the inner teacher7. Encourage gratitude and joy,8. Emphasise Fluidity9. Use skilful language10. The practice is about you, not the pose.This list to me should speak to ever yoga teacher in every class, not just in a ‘yoga for seniors’ setting. If this was the case how many more yogis would be uninjured, how many would not come up with the saying I can’t do yoga as I am too inflexible, can’t touch my toes etc. A common list of golden age ailments is provided along with suggestions for how and why to practice before the Asana are commenced. The emphasis is on breath, being aware, creating a safe space and practice and functional movement, even going as far as showing how to get up and down off the floor. Additional resources are provided on line for teachers, readers etc. with complete audio of each weekly class to help you follow. With the six week practice building slowly and, in my opinion, safely, building up your powers of interception and proprioception. This book would be safe, in most cases, for a Golden Age Yogi to follow at home, but I would also recommend for all yoga teachers, as you never know who might show to your classes. The approach definitely embraces a yogic philosophy for an Asana practice and provides the central requirement of universal love and by following the 10 principles in all yoga classes will make yoga for more accessible to all who wish to experience it.
M –
They serve as great role models for teachers
This book is well designed for home practice use as a gentle program for yoga beginners and also as a guide for teachers who want to gear their classes to older and possibly disabled adults whose abilities and needs are not the same as younger students. The written cues, cautions, and illustrations help guide the beginner. I value and use the downloadable audio sessions (6), which introduce six different basic lessons. They serve as great role models for teachers. The audio segments be used to take a student through a 20-minute lesson. The book, downloadable text, and audio lessons give examples to teachers for presenting and teaching effectively. The book emphasizes using language that is welcoming rather than directive, inviting rather than ordering. I have been pleased to use it in combination with the Yoga U webinar to present yoga to beginners who are ages 60+ to 80+. I appreciate the specifics the book offers for doing yoga safely and discussing numerous cautions for vulnerable bodies, such as students with artificial joints, heart disease, arthritis, and other conditions common in older populations. The six-week program is a great introduction to yoga, and the “forms” (postures) are often adaptable even for people in chairs. I did find that some of the lessons take place reclining on the floor with no chair adaptations, but on the whole, this is a valuable program offering improvement in function, mobility. and spirit for older people, whether or not they have physical limitations.
V. J. –
A GOOD Yoga book for seniors
I have bought other yoga books before; but I’m SO glad I took a chance with this one! I am 66 now, but after years of hard farm work, schoolbus driving, I have found that I no longer want to do ‘hard core’ workouts, to stay active and fit. Parts of me hurt now and then, I am a semi regular chiropractor patient and I retired from schoolbus driving (30 years), with health issues of high blood pressure, and an overload of stress. I have run 5ks for a few years, now I’m not anxious to do even that. But I clean houses, walk a LOT, so I am active. But, the will and the want to, to do ‘hard core’ isn’t there. I take tai chi for seniors, for falls prevention and balance. This led me to do qi gong dvds at home,,further research led me to chair yoga dvds. I can do yoga, but not much on the mat, my body doesn’t like that sometimes. I wanted a yoga book, a gentle guide to keep me doing gentle(r) exercise, knowing I was on the right path. This book does that. I love the drawings, rather than the pictures of size 0 models I often see in other exercise books, or the bending into pretzels pictures I’ve seen in other yoga books. I really enjoy being told that I AM doing what my body/mind needs, and NOT to strive to do more.
D. S. Althaus –
Book
Good book. Using the ideas.
MissAutumn –
Not real impressed
A LOT of talk and very little exercises which are actually Basic Basic stretches. Over 60 pgas before you see even 1 illustration or instruction,These stretches would be for seniors who are disabled. It would be the very Basic start to stretching and exercise – not yoga.
K –
Good book for teaching
Required for a recent yoga training. It gives great ideas for all kinds of levels.
Yogi –
Highly Recommend!
I’ve been teaching Yoga for almost 20 years and this book is THE go-to resource for teaching seniors and those with limited mobility. The authors are experts in their fields and write from experience. I highly recommend this book.
Jim C. –
As a yoga teacher and aging practitioner, I found this book to be a great resource to make my teaching more accessible to older students or people with mobility limitations that are new to yoga.
SS –
I’m a yoga teacher, have taught yoga many years. This book is the best, compare with all the books I have read. Almost perfect. I also bought the DVD.
Kay Foster –
I’m a very unfit lady in my mid-sixties with a lot of potentially stress-related symptoms (migraine, psoriasis, rosacea etc). After a lecture from my GP about trying to take care of myself a bit better I looked for a yoga programme that is really suitable for someone of my age and physical condition and I found this. No doubt it would drive a serious yoga bunny to distraction, but it’s just what I need: calming to the mind and gently exercising for the body in a six week programme. After a session I actually feel better. The authors explain on their DVD of the same title, which I also bought, that they take account of Western medical opinion in selecting poses, so there are no forward bends, for example, which can be unhelpful for older people. There is lots of advice on how to modify poses to make them easier or suit particular health problems, and no preciousness about getting the poses ‘just so’. If you can breathe, as the authors say, there are things here that you can do even if you need to do them lying on a bed. It’s just what I needed.
Free Spirit –
Started using this after having treatment for chronic backache. It’s a really well- presented and easy intro into yoga to strengthen muscles especially if you have not done too much exercise before. Commenced about 5weeks ago and have noticed I am more mobile so can recommend.
egunter –
My favorite Yoga book.