Yoga For Seniors

Yoga is perfect for seniors because it gently stretches the muscles, improves joint flexibility and generally makes you stronger.

It's also a very safe form of exercise that you can do at home. Leave those heavy weights and pounding the treadmill to younger folks. Once you got past 60, you learned to work smarter, not harder. Right?

Yoga for Seniors contains 20 holistic exercises that can help both the mind and body. There's also a free lesson below. Read on ...

Suffering from stiff joints and aching or weak muscles? Yoga is the natural remedy. Many seniors report that yoga helped them to:

• Reduce inflammation or chronic pain.

• Increase flexibility and mobility.

• Help breathing and enable bigger breaths.

• Roll back the years for better balance and posture.

As seniors get stronger and fitter, they find that some of the 'brain fog' associated with old age can recede. This is because more oxygen can reach the brain due to better breathing and gentle exercise. Reported benefits of yoga include:

• Better co-ordination of the limbs.

• Quicker reaction times.

• Improved memory because you exercise the brain with new physical and mental experiences.

The US National Institutes of Health says that: "Muscle mass decreases approximately 3–8% per decade after the age of 30, and this rate of decline is even higher after the age of 60." Yoga can help you to:

• Gently recover muscle strength.

• Improve cardio-vascular function, so you can do more exercise. It's a win:win situation.

• Reduce blood pressure and improve blood flow.

The Mayo Clinic wrote: "A number of studies have shown that yoga may help reduce stress and anxiety. Yoga can enhance your mood and overall sense of well-being." Yoga can help to:

• Reduce anxiety and associated cortisol levels.

• Improve self-esteem and counter depression.

• Give a sense of contentment by 'being in the present' as you focus on exercises.

Getting enough sleep is another problem that people report as they get older. Yoga can help you sleep better and have more energy in three key ways:

• More exercise naturally makes you more tired.

• Better breathing and mindfulness help melatonin production.

• Less stress and a better mood cuts night-time worrying.

Maybe you've been thinking about taking yoga lessons, but were worried that you're too old or stiff to join a group? This book can help remove some of the mystique about yoga. You don't need to be a zen master ... just someone who wants to move better and feel happier.

• The book has links to 20 videos. Watch them on your smartphone, tablet or PC.

• You can watch the videos again and again. There's no limit.

• There's lots of space for notes about each exercise. It's useful to keep a journal. Buy the book now.