Top Ten Tips - a Guide to Your Health and Sanity by a Yoga Teacher

My expertise is in using yoga and meditation to improve quality of life for older people - as a prevention or as a part of stroke recovery, mobility issues, chronic pain due to arthritis, osteoporosis, etc.

In light of the recent lockdown measures I have pivoted my business, not only to provide a regular daily online yoga schedule of support digitally but creating a gift certificate system for family members of elderly isolated people to purchase which will allow them to access guided activity sessions. It has been created for those who worry about parents or grandparents not getting enough exercise in isolation but can also help with fall prevention and breathing exercises.

Success Stories or Encountering Failures and What Really Matters

The award-winning Outset Start-Up Experts inaugurated me as a success story, one of those people who turned their ideas into successful businesses. What an irony? I have never been in a worse situation in my life, seeing a failure shadow in the mirror and I am 49 years old and lived through war, divorces, abuse in the spiritual community, etc.

It was a good idea, a good start and a good foundation. But then, when everything was supposed to start rolling out as planned, La Vida Lockdown became our reality and six months of hard work evaporated in the covid19 polluted air.

How can I “offer a safe, supportive environment for the older generation to promote better health”, when all care homes, residential homes closed their doors and I cannot see or touch a single senior person?!

yoga, LondonAleksandra Horwood3 April 2020yoga, startup, business, success, covid19, corona, senior, longevity, LondonComment

Better balance for life, Banish the Fear of Falling

The elderly.
We are all here because of them, our parents, our grandparents. We owe them everything.
This new situation puts them at the highest risk of getting infected with the virus. They are isolated. They might have many different health concerns, and also some might be facing anxiety, fear, depression.
Their physical functions might be deteriorating because of lack of activities, or simply because they age.
As we all age, we lose balance first and then fear of falling and suffering a severe, oftentimes life-threatening injury prevent them from moving a lot even when in limited space.

Better breathing for life

Being a yoga therapist in Germany in 2001, my clients were regularly reimbursed by health insurance, as prevention was highly regarded as one of the best cost-reducing and health-inducing methods.
Health is crucial in how we experience the old age. Every fifth person in the UK is 60+ and two-thirds of them have two or more long-term health conditions. Treatments for these conditions account for 70 % of NHS expenditure. Anxiety, depression and social isolation also contribute and/or cause limited day-to-day activities for affected individuals.
There is an increasing number of studies on the positive effects of gentler forms of exercise, everything from lowering blood pressure and managing depression to building strength and improving balance. As we age we start losing our stability and fear of falling can become bigger than the wish to stay active. But there are ways to minimize the chances of a dangerous fall.
Here is a simple exercise that if done regularly will maintain leg strength, balance, endurance, and coordination. It will also help you catch yourself if you should trip over preventing a fall.

Aleksandra Horwood1 April 2020Happy Stance Yoga Therapyyoga, meditation, breathing, senior, lungs, balance, mobility, stability, flexibility, who, nhs, fall, preventionComment