For a truly independent life, you'll need to maintain a combination of four physical skills - strength, flexibility, balance and agility - which will allow you to be mobile and capable out in the world at large.

You'll also need to maintain brain health and emotional stability so you can take care of yourself and continue to participate in the activities that give your life meaning.

My goal, with all the 20,000 Breaths Yoga & Wellness classes and courses, is to share with you information that can extend your health span and independence as you get older. In these programs, we will move beyond postural-based, fitness driven yoga, to focusing on safety and strength, balance and mobility, all with stability.

We will be adding new and different classes and courses all the time so stay in touch! Go to the “About” page and click on the yellow button at the top right which says “Subscribe”. I won’t email a ton, but I will keep you in the loop on classes, new additions to the line-up and any important-to-know news.

According to Judith Lasater..."Every body position creates a specific mental state. If you want to change your mind, you change your body. You take a drug, you stand on your head, you drink coffee. Physical position even measurably shifts brain wave patterns.

But there’s more and more evidence that the brain is not the initiator but the receiver of this information. All the organs send information into the chat room of the mind: the brain, which then organizes and interprets it. The brain is not the creator of this information: it is the intelligence of the body.

Recent research says that 80% of your well being comes directly from your gut, not from your mentality. With asana (yoga) practice, we are radically shifting our perspective through the intelligence of the body. We give the organs new information, which is then sent to the brain. If the information is strong enough, then it can break through our consciousness and into our awareness."

Karen

Founder 20,000 Breaths Yoga & Wellness