Getting older doesn't mean getting old. We can redefine our identities, making the most of the freedom of the empty nest. We can create new careers and new lifestyles, and we can maintain and create healthy, strong and vital bodies. We aerobicized and pumped iron to the tune of a heavy beat. Now, as we enter our 50's, yoga offers us the opportunity to create health and fitness from a place of calm and centeredness, rising to the rhythm of our own beat, that of our hearts and our breath.
Health is a choice, an attitude, a state of mind.
Through a consistent yoga practice we discover deeper and deeper levels of tuning into our bodies and into our psyches, the seat of health. How we approach our yoga practice is a microcosm of how we approach our lives. We can watch where our resistance is, when we become competitive, fearful, and lazy. Yoga is an adventure into ourselves and into our health, its a process of redefining ourselves at 50 or any age.