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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Gotta go. JK.

Great piece. I stand on the left foot while brushing my upper teeth then the right during lower. I use my time wisely in this instance.

A new writing project takes a lot of thinking about it. Is that time well spent?

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Patricia Cusack's avatar

That is time very well spent, working on your next writing project while refining the balancing. Excellent, Carissa!

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Cliona Woods's avatar

Thank you Pat. I know I spent too much time waiting to progress my life. I need to just do it.

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Joan Stommen's avatar

I depend on my yoga legs after 30 some years… not sure it’s been timed doing one leg poses! I will start today… breath and focus help. Thank you for this breakdown of age/secinds, Patricia! Exactly what I need as snow and cold are tempting reasons to do nothing!! Great motivation for me to step it up at home! 🫶👍☺️

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Patricia Cusack's avatar

Another longtime yoga student, Joan! We're really showing how it's helped us older women to be the fit and active people we are. I know you also do sport so you should find the balancing a breeze as it's the strength of the leg, as well as the calm mind that helps. Stay warm.

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Pamela Cummins's avatar

I found it distracting timing standing on one leg, especially since I’m used to focusing on my breath. Then Jeoffry gently bit my calf. 29 seconds on each leg at 62. However, I’m not sure if this test would be accurate. Why?

Once I was in a yoga class and one student did a seated forward fold and put her head on her legs. Wow! I couldn’t do that and felt embarrassed. The next pose was a one leg balance, which she couldn’t hold for 5 seconds. This taught me how everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, so 'don’t compare'. I stopped going to classes years ago and do yoga at home.

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Patricia Cusack's avatar

29 seconds is as good as the thirty you are expected to do in your age group, Pamela. Yes, don't compare in yoga. Even after all the years I did it, I was never as fully flexible as I hoped to be and I certainly couldn't stand on my head as Ann (Richardson) does. We all have our strengths.

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Jennifer Ward Dudley's avatar

I’m in your age bracket. Does it count if I stand on one and switch to the other ?

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Patricia Cusack's avatar

I suppose it would count if you stood for longer than 10 seconds before you changed, Jennifer. ;-D

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Patricia Cusack's avatar

I have to admit I'm the same. I practised religiously every week in class for over 30 years then I discovered that some yoga poses, like down dog, are not good for eye pressure and as I have an eye condition that requires me to keep the pressure down, I decided not to work with a class. I thought I'd do my own sessions weekly. I'm afraid that I don't stick to it, though I do try as often as possible. I really do believe that the regular classes we did for so long have stood us in good stead.

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Ann Richardson's avatar

Age 82. 44 seconds on first try. Might do better on more tries but I guess that’s not bad at all. Also practiced yoga for 30+ years.

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Patricia Cusack's avatar

Going by the NHS figures, Ann, you are pretty strong. I think practising yoga for so long has done us both a power of good in our older years.

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Ann Richardson's avatar

Agreed. I've done it once a week (minus holidays and sickness) for all that time, and for a year or more I went up to twice and even three times a week - all in class. But I am strangely hopeless at doing it outside a class. I will try a dog pose, immediately notice that there is something underneath the sofa and get curious. I am generally known to be pretty conscientious, but not with the yoga!

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