Issues haven’t modified in the previous couple of many years. The CDC experiences that falls proceed to be the supply of well being issues1 for elders 65 years and older. A couple of out of 4 older individuals falls annually.
Over the course of 27 years, I’ve developed strategies to assist hundreds of individuals stand up and down safely in my therapeutic yoga apply.
Since we do yoga totally on the ground, that signifies that every scholar of mine has needed to get some expertise shifting all the way down to and up off the ground independently. I prefer to ensure that each individual that I work with can transfer all the way down to the ground after which stand up off the ground with as a lot grace as doable.
The best technique that I exploit to take action known as the Therapeutic Solar Salutation©. I train it to everybody—younger and outdated, match or frail. Everybody that I encounter will get their very own model of this vital apply.
I particularly love this apply as a result of as soon as a consumer learns use it, they’ll scale back their danger of being caught on the ground within the occasion of an unintentional fall. They will additionally use it to test in with their physique and do a self-assessment of how nicely they’re shifting and functioning in that second.
