Yoga for 60+ in Cambridge

Missing you all! Wherever you are: Take a moment to release December stress. Reach up & Stretch your spine and body.

Open your heart, soften chest, relax shoulders, and embrace life while maintaining balance on one leg! You can do it. Prop up one leg on a chair, short stool or step. Turn the same direction as propped up leg.

Yes! It’s easy & Keeps the grace, balance, and bounce in your step as you go walkin’ down the avenue.’

Hi y’all! Spending too much time with your computer ( or chopping veggies…)? Move your heart up and heart back while elbows wing it.

Tight hamstrings? Go slowly and step-by-step to stretch and release these rascal muscles.

Lighten the load, relax your back and neck and practice a few Harvest Moon Yoga moves for your shoulders.

Enjoy this good hamstring stretch! Put your heels up on chair seat. Go slowly. Keep your back flat and shoulders wide and relaxed. Knee cap moves up into quad to keep back of knee open.

Greetings everyone! September has arrived! Take a beautiful end of summer break. Lean on a post or wall. Right angle under your knees. Press navel back. You’ll be strengthening your quads, back and core muscles.

Hi all, I’m ending summer on Cape Cod. Sharing this easy twist with you. If you have tight hamstrings and/or lower back be sure to hike up your buttocks— sit on folded firm blanket. It also feels good to put folded towel or small firm cushions under your knees. Remember: Keep the spine upright and straight as a line. Sending soon-to-be September Greetings to you all, Christine

Hi all! Take a minute to connect to your heart, relax your back and sail into the beauty around you. Happy summer.

Take a moment with yourself to de-stress

Be sure to move your buttock flesh away from your head to release the lower back. Enjoy

Staying in touch with you all during the summer from my back deck…stay relaxed, healthy and in love!

For you! I’m back with mini- mini feel good poses you can do this summer.

STRETCH YOUR HAMSTRINGS MINI YOGA LESSON
Hamstrings are a group of muscles that cross the hip and knee joints and are responsible for walking, running, jumping, and many other physical activities. The More You Sit, the More You “Shorten” Your Hamstrings. Biking and running also tighten up the hamstrings. No worries! Stretching the hamstrings—for 15 minutes— will greatly improve your overall mobility and release tension in your lower back. In this mini lesson we give the back of our legs a good stretch, teasing the hamstring into lengthening. We also ‘pump” the hamstring and psoas muscles to further release tightness. For props have a chair ( for your feet), a long belt, strap or rope. You can do this stretch on your bed if you are chair-restricted.

How to set up for today's hamstring mini lesson. YOga Mini Lesson begins at 15. Usually 15 minutes--sometimes 16 or 17.

Pollen season! Yikes! Many of us suffer during this colorful but pesky season. The best thing we can do is to relax the stress that allergies put into action by keeping the relationship between sinus/nose, throat and lungs open and as relaxed as possible.
Lifting the heart and visiting the upper lungs is important, since we tend to get tight shoulders and necks during the allergy season. I demonstrate four chest lifting options for you to practice at home. I introduce you to alternate nostril breathing. Finally, at end of the mini-lesson, we do bee-buzz breathing, which will vibrate your sinuses.

CARESS THE MOON WITH YOUR BODY.

Welcome May 4 pm MINI YOGA LESSON
15 minutes. Doing the ‘Dog’

Because we look down so much at phones, keyboards, books and cutting boards ( if you cook!) we have developed an overload of tension in our necks, jaw and upper back. In this mini-lesson we visit those body parts and stretch, moisten and loosen them up. No props needed other than a firm seated chair to sit on-- and a head, shoulders and jaw.

in this 15-minute mini lesson we visit the foundation pose of all yoga poses: Tadasana ( aka Mountain Pose). We begin by stretching out feet and taking up as much ‘real estate’ as possible on our soles. We also invigorate our wrists and hands —partners to the feet. We proceed to lift arms and stretch the upper back and neck as well as widen the back body, and lengthen sideways and front-back. Everything we do can also be done in a chair, if you are chair-restricted. No props needed.