Yoga for Seniors
My yoga for seniors training was much more mentally comfortable than the prenatal/postpartum, as do hope to be old myself one day. I did find that the class might be appropriately titled “chair yoga” rather than targeting a specific age group, as anyone who has some of the physical conditions that result in impaired mobility or other physical effect we associate with aging would certainly benefit. In fact, I could easily see combining the prenatal/postparum with the seniors class into a two-day Yoga Modifications workshop. Taking the two in the same weekend made it sem like I was getting mre out of each workshop than I would have if I had them individually.
I can also see how it would’ve been very helpful to have had the class before my student teaching, as several of the people in that class either needed or preferred to stay in chairs the entire time. However, it’s not all closng the barn door after the horse has left, because several elements may be quite useful in the office-cubicle yoga seminar I occasionally teach.
The pace of the class was nice and relaxed as well, which is good, considering that I’ve got a much more physically demanding weekend comng up here. This time, I had that familiar my-brain-is-full feeling, but wasn’t physically tired. Next weekend is mostly retraining (except for the yoga with weights class on Friday evening), so it may well fall out that my brain gets a bit of a break while my body does the heavy lifting, as it were.
It did occur to me that once I’ve finished my training, I won’t be seeing some fo the familiar faces I’ve gotten accustomed to—Jenny from Chatanooga, Jenny from Kentucky, and Renee from Illinois, among others. I’d like to think that I’ll see some of the local and near-local people more often, but you never know. I’ve said many times that yoga teachers as a group tend to be really wonderful people, and my training cohort certainly bears that out.
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