Date:   7/18/2010 4:48:38 PM ( 14 y ago)
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Yes, about 6 years.

And I had the same reaction during my first class - bored to tears. It didn't fit with what I considered exercise - running, swimming jumping around. But it's a great adjunct to those activities. Just as challenging yet smaller, quieter.

It helped me through a period of depression, I believe it sped up the process. Some positions can wring out the emotions as well as the organs and it's not uncommon to cry a little (no, not in boredom) during or after a certain position.

May not be easy where you live but if you can find the right class, you might get hooked. I think that's the best way to start rather than by yourself with a book. Once you get some training in class, the books are good.

It's all about the instructor. Not only their expertise but a certain gentleness of spirit that a good one possesses. Challenging yet supportive and as interested in the spiritual aspects of yoga as the physical.

And persons of a certain age can use all the flexibility they can get.

 

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