Continuing To Do What You Love
by Nina Kale by Melina Meza The other day Baxter and I were talking with an editor about a possible book on Yoga for Healthy Aging�isn�t that exciting?�when he said something about healthy aging that really struck me. We were going through the possible definitions of "healthy aging" (look for a post on that topic from me soon) when he mentioned that for a lot of his students, healthy aging meant being able to continue to do the activities they loved. Some examples he gave included a woman who wanted to be able to take her grandchildren on hiking adventures and another who wanted to be able to continue with her intensive gardening work. What's so great about yoga is that a regular yoga asana practice can help with these goals for healthy aging. You can use your yoga practice both to fortify yourself and balance your body to keep yourself in shape to continue doing what you love. Let�s take the example of gardening because that�s something I do a lot myself. Gardening can a...