Yoga for Strength-Training - Keys to
Building a Stronger Body-Mind with Yoga

Yoga for Strength-Training - Keys to Building a Stronger Body-Mind with Yoga

While a bottle of wine can sit in a cellar for years improving with age, the same cannot be said of humans. In fact, a sedentary adult may experience as much as 30 to 40 percent loss of muscular strength as a result of reduced levels of muscle mass between the ages of 30 and 80. 

This makes strength building one of the most effective things you can slow the aging clock and keep feeling youthful and healthy well beyond your 30s and 40s.

With more and more people coming into yoga after age 45, it’s important that asana practice reflect our changing bodies, while addressing the need for strength, muscle tone, and retention of functional movement in a safe and progressive. 

The bottom line? As we age need to add some power moves to our asana practice! 

Borrowing from her NASM personal trainer certification, Lynn will talk about how to seamlessly add components of strength work into asana practice that can work at all ages. Lynn will also show how to work in poses to create different types of muscles strengthening, and how to tailor a strength training program so it’s suitable for different age groups, i.e. 20-40s, 50s-60s, and 70+.

Adding a strength component to your asana practice can help you:

• Develop Strength and Stability
• Improve Balance and Fall Prevention
• Increase cognitive health
• Improve metabolism
• Build strong bones
• Support a Robust Immune System
• Create Healthy Breath Support.
• Retain Mobility and Functional Movement Capacity
• Decrease risk of all-cause mortality.

In this course, yoga teacher and therapist Lynn Crimando will show how to safely add a strength component that is joint-aware, progressive, and adaptable to any ability level.

Take a Sneak Peek at Lynn's Slides:

A Panacea for All: The Many Benefits of Strength Training

The Vicious Cycle of Frailty and 

How to Prevent It

Dynapenia: Why Loss of Muscle 

Mass Is Not the Same as Loss of 

Muscle Strength

Creating Your Foundation - A Practice for Building Core Strength​​