New! Balance, Agility, and Healthy Aging

With yoga & senior fitness specialist Bonnie Golden, M.Ed, E-RYT

Saturday, March 25, 2023,1:30-3:30 PM

Limited class size, please register early through The Sol Center to reserve your spot $60

Improving your balance ability depends upon multiple factors. With aging, our balance systems often don’t work as well as they used to. Fortunately, yoga and related multimodal practices progress our balance abilities, as well as agility capabilities for fall prevention. Learn how to safely assess, practice , and improve your balance and agility skills with this specialized workshop.

Session includes:

• Evidence based information about balance, agility, and fall prevention

• Yoga and related practices for balance, agility, strength, flexibility, and equanimity for mind and body, all designed for healthy aging and fall prevention.

Who should attend: Those interested in learning how yoga and other multimodal movement practices can be employed for balance, agility, and a quality health span.  If you have low bone density or osteoporosis, improving balance and preventing falls is a crucial strategy to stay mobile and prevent fractures. This session is for participants who can move unassisted up and down from the floor. Continuing Education Credit is available for RYT’s.

About the facilitator

Hi I’m Bonnie  Golden! I craft individual and group offerings for people across the lifespan. I have seen first-hand that yoga will enhance our health and well-being holistically: body, mind, and breath. I’m the owner of Yoga with Bonnie/Yoga in Balance and a long time Yoga teacher for students in Tucson and beyond.  Additionally, I’m a  BoneFit™ Professional certified nationally through Bone Health & National Osteoporosis Foundation, a National Association Sports Medicine (NASM) Senior Fitness Specialist, and a Yoga for Healthy Aging Certified Teacher. I received my Masters of Education in Counseling emphasizing Adult Learning, Women, and Gerontology. I’m the Author of Yoga for Holistic Healing: Poses and Sequences for Pain and Stress Relief and love teaching at The Sol Center.

Previous offerings

Yoga for Healthy Aging: Chair Yoga for Balance, Bones, and Strength!

Who should participate?

Anyone who would like to learn  strength, balance, and fall prevention for healthy aging through yoga. Practice is both seated and standing using the chair for balance.

YOU WILL LEARN:

Context: Understand the motivating rationale and evidence of holistic yoga for bone health, balance, and fall prevention.

How to: Practice safely and for optimal holistic benefit and enjoyment. Both seated and standing practices are included.

Practice: Two comprehensive yoga practice sessions for you to access indefinitely! 

Teacher: Bonnie Golden is a Registered Yoga Teacher, Bonefit® Specialist, Senior Fitness Specialist, Yoga for Healthy Aging Teacher, and has trained extensively in Yoga for Osteoporosis with Dr. Loren Fishman, M.D.

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Resistance Band Yoga: Introduction

Who should participate: Anyone interested in efficiently becoming stronger. This is a novel practice of adding resistance bands as props to many yoga poses.

Props: Therabands Note: At least one week prior to the start of class, all fully registered students (see below) will receive an informational video on how to prepare the bands for practice

You will learn:

–Options to work with the long therabands in yoga poses. See this video for a two minute demo.

-Context: an introductory presentation covering, the “whys”  and evidenced based benefits of resistance training for strength with bands.

-The how to’s: such as safety, how to tie the bands.

-A full holistic yoga practice introducing using the red bands in the poses.

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Prenatal/Postnatal Yoga: Prenatal Yoga, Postpartum Yoga, Yoga for Birthing, Postpartum Recovery Yoga, Parent and Baby, Partner Yoga and many more.

Yoga for Healthy Aging Themes Including: Balance, Posture, Strength, Osteoporosis, Pelvic Floor Health, Agility, Chair Yoga, and many more tailored for you.

Tonic for the Tissues: Yin, Roll, Relax AKA Yin and Tonic: Upper Body, Lower Body, Whole Body

Restorative Yoga Mini-Spa: Stress Management deep release yoga with or without props. Themed and tailored for your group.

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