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Special Yoga For Senior Citizens

Special Yoga For Senior Citizens
They say the Fountain of Youth restores the younger days of anyone who drinks its spring water. That sounds great, but finding the spring can be a little problematic. A different approach, involving some quiet time and little discipline, is working wonders for a group at Windsor Gardens. "Let's get really grounded in our sitting bones," Diane Sieg says calmly to one of her many weekly yoga classes. "Really long in our side bodies," she continues. "I love yoga," Diane told 9NEWS before the class. "I love teaching yoga and taking yoga." Diane is instructing a class called "Senior Yoga," but don't let the name fool you. This group takes yoga very seriously, and are "warriors" at their practice. Take for example 92-year-old Ada Jane Langford: she's been a yogi since the '60s. "Well it was when television used to be Channel 6," says Ada Jane. "I was much younger then, but didn't want to get older so I took yoga and it gave me new life, and I'm still going." Full story
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Chair Yoga For Old Age People

Chair Yoga For Old Age People
Shirley Raichle practiced yoga for many years, even taught it. But as the years passed, her flexibility decreased. Now, she cannot get up and down and do all the standing yoga postures or positions. "I thought it was all over for me," said Raichle, who is in her 70s. That was before she discovered chair yoga at ... Full story
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