Why you should stretch your limits over 60
<p><em><strong>Tracy Adshead is a yoga teacher specialising in yoga for seniors. She is passionate about bringing healing and healthy ageing to the community.</strong></em></p>
<p>How often do you try a little challenge? Like walk backwards for 30 seconds everyday, take a new route to the supermarket or learn a new musical instrument? These are all excellent practices for the brain especially if you’ve never done them before.</p>
<p>As we age it’s important to challenge ourselves, we can become very comfortable in our habits and tendencies so much so that when change comes our way or we are asked to break a habit it becomes difficult to do.</p>
<p>Getting to a yoga class, in the community or online, offers a new challenge for your brain every time. Listening and following the teacher’s instructions, moving your body in ways that are not typically part of daily life all help to keep the mind sharp.</p>
<p>The practice demands your complete focus physically and mentally and a willingness to go along with the instructions as best you can – a little mental flexibility. The important benefit of this mental flexibility is that it improves your ability to become adaptable, to change your approach. With a flexible mind and body everyday living becomes easier. Suddenly the world is not against you.</p>
<p>In this way, yoga can help to keep life fresh and new by challenging you to continuously try new things. You will feel the reward of moving freely, notice your balance improving and feel better in yourself.</p>
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