Several local senior citizens are reaping the benefits of a yoga-based fitness class. The class is offered through Charlottesville's Senior Center.
Participants say the yoga is helping them feel a little younger and move a little easier.
'It just helps to make me feel better and more relaxed,' said participant, Carrie Johnson.
'It stretches parts of my body that I ordinarily don't because as one gets older, one tends to sort of scrunch inside so to speak, so this is really stretching everything,' said participant, Judy Cangialosi.
According to the yoga instructor, the class helps seniors with their limited mobility, longevity, and vitality.
'Yoga works the internal systems. It works the body the mind and the spirit. The spirit is what needs to be developed in the seniors because a lot of them spend a lot of time alone,' said yoga instructor, Edna Jakki Miller.
'This is a good outlet and again being with people is always an incentive to go,' said Johnson.
Miller specializes in fitness training for atypical populations. Miller says the results in these seniors are noticeable
'One time I couldn't sit up straight. I had to prop myself up, but now I can do considerably more,' said participant Joyce Creber.
'We have to help everyone learn how they can move on their own,' said Miller.
The yoga class is held every Monday at 10:30am at the Charlottesville Senior Center.
For more information visit the Senior Center's website at www.seniorcenterinc.org
By Jennifer Black
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