Show 1203: How Yoga Can Help You Age Gracefully

Stress is nearly ubiquitous in modern life. We all know it isn’t healthy, but we may not have a lot of tools for escaping or alleviating it. People under stress may feel they don’t have enough time for yoga. Just trying to meditate may send their minds spinning into overdrive about everything waiting to be done. Can we use mindfulness and yoga to help us age gracefully? Yoga for Pain Relief: Carol Krucoff is a yoga therapist who has been adapting yoga teaching for people who live with pain. She has found many ways for people to use mindful yoga practice to ease their chronic pain and improve their health. Choosing a Yoga Practice to Help You Age Gracefully: There are many different styles of yoga. Some are more suited for easing pain than others. How can you determine which yoga practice would suit your needs best? What research is available to help you determine how yoga can help you age gracefully? We’ll review the warning signs that suggest you might not have chosen the best practice and could benefit more from a different teacher or style. Finding the Right Yoga Teacher: Carol recommends these articles to guide you in finding a good yoga teacher who can help you with the appropriate yoga practice for your condition:        https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/more-older-people-are-doing-yoga-but-they-are-also-racking-up-injuries/2017/12/08/270ce406-ca2e-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html          https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/looking-for-a-yoga-teacher-this-is-worth-knowing/2017/12/08/975953a6-daa6-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html Your Questions Are Welcome: What would you like to know about using yoga to improve your health? Have you been practicing yoga? You can tell us about your experience and ask your questions. Carol Krucoff will share her expertise on how you can use yoga for better health and less pain. To join the conversation, email [email protected] or call 1-888-472-3366 between 7:10 and 8:00 am EST on Saturday, March 7, 2020. (Daylight savings doesn’t kick in until about midnight.) This Week’s Guest: Carol Krucoff, C-IAYT, E-RYT, is a yoga therapist at Duke Integrative Medicine and co-director of the Integrative Yoga for Seniors Professional Trainings, designed to help yoga instructors safely adapt the practice to older bodies, minds and spirits. An award-winning journalist, Carol served as founding editor of the Health Section of The Washington Post. She is the author of several books, including Yoga Sparks: 108 Easy Practices for Stress Relief in a Minute or Less and Relax into Yoga for Seniors: A Six-Week Program for Strength, Balance, Flexibility and Pain Relief. Her most recent book, written with Jim and Kimberly Carson, is Relax into Yoga for Chronic Pain: An Eight-Week Mindful Yoga Workbook for Finding Relief and Resilience. Her website is https://healingmoves.com Listen to the Podcast: The podcast of this program will be available the Monday after the broadcast date. The show can be streamed online from this site and podcasts can be downloaded for free. CDs may be purchased at any time after broadcast for $9.99. Buy the CD Download the mp3