You are never to old to start or do Yoga

Bernice Bates, who at 91 is officially the world's oldest yoga instructor, teaches in front of a yoga class, as she's been doing since 1960

Potential Benefits for Adults

Long-term yoga practitioners in the United States have reported musculoskeletal and mental health improvements, as well as reduced symptoms of asthma in asthmatics. Regular yoga practice increases brain GABA levels and has been shown to improve mood and anxiety more than some other metabolically matched exercises, such as walking. 

The three main focuses of yoga exercise, breathing, and meditation make it beneficial to those suffering from heart disease. Overall, studies of the effects of yoga on heart disease suggest that yoga may reduce high blood pressure, improve symptoms of heart failure, enhance cardiac rehabilitation, and lower cardiovascular risk factors

Yoga for the Elderly  has a lot of healthy rewards eg: getting the blood flowing, working muscles to help you to be flexible, fit and healthy.   

Yoga gives you flexibility like you’ve never had before, and it makes you healthy because you’re working on the whole body, inside and out.  Yoga involves the whole body muscles, ligaments and the organs.   Yoga gives you energy without exhausting your body. Yoga itself means yoke, that’s to join. We join our mind, our body and our spirit in everything we do.

With regular yoga exercise good health is guaranteed, being able to move freely is priceless!