Antiaging Yoga

by guest blogger Holly Walck Kostura, BSN and certified Iyengar Yoga teacher To quote Webster's: "Aging (adj): (of a thing) reaching the end of useful life; growing old or older, especially visibly and obviously so; obsolescent Obsolescent (adj): becoming obsolete Obsolete (adj): no longer produced or used; out-of-date." When I was 22 years old, a friend and I went into a local bookstore and saw a display of exercise videos, including one titled, Yoga for Beginners. The middle-aged woman demonstrating the pose on the cover looked strong, stable, flexible, and joyful, and I remember knowing that the way she looked WAS yoga and that if I practiced it I would feel that way in my own skin. So I bought the video and started practicing every single day; that was 7,120 days (more than 19 years) ago, and I feel younger now than I did on the day I started practicing. Back then, I was plagued with migraines, unexplained fevers, joint pain, and digestive problems and felt generally anxious and unhappy. Doctors told me I had acid reflux, possible rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, and--to top it off--chronic sinusitis. Within a year of committing to a consistent practice, those pains had disappeared, the way I looked at the world around me shifted, and the sands of time began to slow down as they made their way though the hourglass of my life. The way the woman on that video cover looked was now how I felt, and it was only up from there once I started to delve deeper into the limitle...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news