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Yoga improves stability and flexibility in elderly women. Recent study reported that elderly women increase their stability, develop flexibility and prevent falls after practicing yoga 2 times per week for an hour and half. On average women gained a centimeter in height.

These are results according to the findings of researchers at Temple University’s Gait Study Center.

24 women aged 65 and older participate in the study. After the program finished women can walk faster using longer strides and feel more confident while doing activities.

Imagine if you start practicing yoga now and you are younger than 65? This could change the quality of your life quicker and with more benefits, because the younger you start yoga, more improvements you will feel.

I remember my first yoga class, it was late spring. I was very nervous, tired and nuts because of the hectic life (long working days, lack of rest and exercises). My girlfriend read an article in a new magazine about yoga school in our city.

At the beginning I was reluctant to try yoga because in my mind it was strange and difficult poses with no meaning to me. But my girlfriend insisted and I agreed to go with her. The yoga class was from 10.30 am and I had to call to my office that I will come to job afternoon (it was strange that I made this with absolutely confidence I have the right to go to the office late lol).

Than I met Nadia – my first yoga teacher – she is like an icon of Virgin Marry in my eyes, I was totally bewitched by her calmness and peace. From the moment I saw her, I felt good and I just opened myself to her words.

We did some yoga exercises (not tough at all). There are different levels of yoga and what we see in the movies and magazines is not what you will start to study in yoga class.

Usually at the beginners’ yoga class people study how to stand, how to move, how to bend … simple and easy exercises that significantly improve your flexibility and this happens without even knowing that you do something hard or complicated.

Now back to my first yoga experience. I was impressed not by yoga exercises (which I love now) but from yoga relaxation (later I understood it is a different yoga technique called Yoga Nidra). We lied and Nadia told us how to relax our bodies, what to imagine …I went out of my body and fly. I can’t explain in details this but it was like a very smooth voice leads you and your body disappears and you feel peace. It is also called “yoga sleep” and 1 hour of such yoga sleep is equal to 4-6 hours of regular sleep.

After this yoga relaxation I was a new person, smiled, confident and forget all the issues in the office. Than I continue to practice yoga classes for 2 years. I stopped, because Nadia went to India to recharge her yoga strength. But I still have audio CD with Nadia’s relaxation guide.

Here is a nice selection of yoga classes if you want to try.

There is free downloadable trial, so you can try yoga for free and decide whether yoga is for you or not.

But honestly I believe yoga is for everybody and you can’t dislike it.

No matter what age you are you have to try even once yoga and decide for yourself the benefits and the feeling after.