Seniority Authority
Aging Peacefully
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Meet one yogi who learned to age peacefully one breath, pose and moment at a time.
Hannelore reflects on how her yoga practice has evolved with age—from ambition and flexibility to acceptance and mindfulness. After injuries forced her to slow down, she discovered a new kind of strength: gentleness.
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Aging Peacefully
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Hannelore reflects on how her yoga practice has evolved with age—from ambition and flexibility to acceptance and mindfulness. After injuries forced her to slow down, she discovered a new kind of strength: gentleness.
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It will be always a part of my life.
I can't stop.
There is a great peacefulness and it warms my heart when I sit down on my yoga mat and practice my movement and meditate.
I come from Germany.
You can tell on my accent.
When I discovered yoga, that was a time when I was working and studying at the university in Germany, as I was learning and learning, and I was so ambitious to learn every single, I enjoyed it.
I definitely felt very fit, very healthy, and very much, flexible in all the movements of yoga.
As I became older and older, I could sense that I didn't want to do a split anymore, so I would become more and more gentle in my yoga practice.
It's the acceptance to be as we are and accepting the time and the way and how we feel.
When I think about the last year, I had several injuries rotator cuff, a broken fibula, a sprained foot, and my whole right side was injured.
I thought, oh my God, how does this work?
I can't do yoga anymore, but I can just breathe.
And moving in micro movements.
And that helped.
But it was kind of hard for me.
I realized I can still do it.
It's fine.
Only different.
So I will not be the yoga teacher for young people.
I will be the yoga teacher for the older people.
I think when somebody is aging, there is so much wisdom in this person, so much experience and to with that experience in the mindfulness, you can do gentle, gentle yoga.
I always think about Mahatma Gandhi who said, health is the real wealth.
And the older we become, the more mindful we have to become with our lifestyle, with the regularity of doing things, with the movement, with a diet.
Accepting ourselves as we are and knowing that we can improve our health and our well-being and our joyfulness with a good lifestyle and yoga practice is most important.
Namaste.
Shanti.
Shanti.
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