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A middle-aged woman arrives at yoga class, a guide dog beside her wheelchair. She slides onto a mat on the floor and begins warming up with help from the instructor, stretching her knee and leg muscles to the side.
Yoga's appeal broadening to disability community
Seeded on Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:33 PM EDT
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"The adaptive yoga will take into consideration the patient's limitations," Knopf says. "A lot of patients with MS, for example, don't do well if they get overheated. So, with adaptive yoga, the instructor will take things nice and slowly, focusing more on breathing and relaxation.... If you are doing yoga in a gym, it's a little faster-paced."
Instructors say one benefit of adaptive classes is that more than one or two people in the group are doing something differently.
Ah, see. Now I want to try this. I was interested in Wii Fit, but seeing that you have to stand on a board, there's just no way. Now I have yoga. Teach me yoga.
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#1 - Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:36 PM EDTThank you for the thread Yasmin. This reminded me of special sit down tai chi classes that are run where I live. There are a couple of classes - one for those people with restricted mobility from arthritis and yet another class for people who live in nursing homes and have dementia.
Irrespective of the type of disability I think that yoga and tai types of exercise can be very beneficial.
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Yes this is interesting, I wish they had this in my town...My mobility is compromised and I have to walk with a cane.
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