"I can't practice Yoga, I'm not flexible!"

Nothing could be further from the truth.

This common misconception prevents many people in their middle and senior/elder years from enjoying the life-enhancing benefits of a Yoga practice.

Yoga offers — to every man and woman in their middle years and beyond — a refreshed, new way of being, in body, mind, heart and spirit, regardless of age or physical capacity. The techniques of Transformative Yoga Therapy let you enjoy the benefits of Yoga no matter what your current physical condition.

As you live this stage of your life, Yoga offers a way to honor your growth and wisdom. Yoga's physical practices enable you to play with grandchildren, feel more alive, more youthful and more connected. Its energetic aspects will awaken vitality within you that you haven't felt in years! Its relaxation techniques will reduce your burden of stress. Your mind will become sharper, your thinking more focused, enabling you to stay more engaged and alert in your work and your leisure.

Transformative Yoga Therapy provides a safe, comfortable environment in which to receive and explore all of Yoga's gifts. Postures are easily adapted to your individual needs and capabilities. Chairs, blankets, bolsters and blocks, even walls, can be used as props to provide you support as needed. Yoga can even be practiced in bed! A modified Yoga practice, you will help prevent the loss of capabilities you already have while you also develop important new skills to bring fresh vibrant energy to your life.

There are many proven benefits to the practice of Yoga. It brings stability to your joints and muscles to preserve and protect them while it improves balance. Yoga enhances digestion and elimination; it increases circulation and lung capacity; it aids in relieving insomnia, headaces, arthritis and the difficulties of menopause.

One of Yoga's premier qualities is its ability to bring deep relaxation to the body and mind, ushering in calm and tranquility. By relieving stress, Yoga helps remove perhaps the most destructive factor in the aging process. So many contemporary illnesses are stress-related. Transformative Yoga Therapy can help to reduce or eliminate many of the conditions that arise in the middle years, including high blood pressure, heart disease, migraines, irritable bowel syndrome and ulcers, arthritis and poor posture.

So you still think you can't practice Yoga? Yes you can! And you can enjoy, thanks to Yoga, a great many more years of vibrant well-being.