{"id":9004111223101602,"date":"2016-07-21T22:15:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.healthcoachinstitute.com\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2022-03-04T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:39:50","slug":"want-to-live-strong-till-100-do-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthcoachinstitute.com\/articles\/want-to-live-strong-till-100-do-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to live strong till 100? Do yoga!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you think of a 97-year-old woman, do you think of someone frail and sickly confined to a hospital bed with feeding tubes? Or do you think of someone strong and energetic who can do a shoulder stand with her legs reaching for the sky?<\/p>\n

Most of us can\u2019t imagine living into our 90\u2019s but according to statistics gathered by the Social Security Administration, \u201cAbout one out of every four 65-year-olds today will live past age 90, and one out of 10 will live past age 95.\u201d<\/p>\n

What this means is that this could be you! And if you\u2019re younger than 65 today, this could definitely be you.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a strange paradox happening in our society at large right now. The American Diet is anything but healthy and nutritious and yet modern medicine intervenes enough to keep us going for longer than ever before in the history of mankind.<\/p>\n

But the question is do we want to just \u201ckeep going\u201d like half-dead machines running on old batteries? Or, if some of us are going to live until 100 anyway, how can we live with vigor and flow and joy and ease in our bodies and smiles on our faces?<\/p>\n

The answer is by changing our habits into positive, healthy, energy-enhancing, life-giving, ones instead of habits that drain our energy and deplete our reserves. And yoga is just one (highly effective) way to start doing that.<\/p>\n

The inspiration behind this post was a video circulating the net of a 97-year-old woman, Nanammal, from\u00a0Coimbatore, in Tamil Nadu, India,\u00a0who practices yoga every day and eats simple, clean, healthy food.<\/p>\n

Lying on her back, Nanammal can do a shoulder stand with her legs reaching to the sky or reach her legs over her head. Seated on the floor she can reach her toes with her hands while resting her belly on her knees. She is not a contortionist. She\u2019s a devout yogi.<\/p>\n

Nanammal says, \u201cIf we do yoga, then we don\u2019t have to spend money at hospitals. I am 97-years-old. I have never stepped into a hospital and never taken medicines.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is a renowned yoga practitioner in India and an inspiration to us all of a dedicated life practice consisting of\u00a0healthy daily habits<\/i>\u00a0that can lead to the type of longevity that we all envy.<\/p>\n

Another incredibly inspiring world-renowned 97-year-old woman is French-Indian, Tao Porchon-Lynch, who is the oldest yoga teacher in the world and still teaches six to eight yoga classes a week in Westchester, New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is so much to do and if we spend our time just sitting there like this (she hunches her shoulders over) it\u2019s not going to help at all,\u201d says Porchon-Lynch says who has been practicing yoga for six decades and continues to inspire and teach yogis worldwide.<\/p>\n

She says, \u201cEvery morning I get up and I don\u2019t think about what I\u2019m going to do tomorrow or today or what I did yesterday, I think it\u2019s going to be the best day of my life. Don\u2019t procrastinate, don\u2019t say I\u2019ll do it tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porchon-Lynch and Nanammal are true testaments to the fact that beauty comes from within and age is but a state of mind. Through the daily practice of yoga, these two women teach us that anything is possible, at any age, and that our bodies are made to stretch, move, and be flexible\u00a0way<\/i>\u00a0longer than we may think\u2026like\u2026forever.<\/p>\n

Beginning a daily yoga practice is one of the best ways to create\u00a0healthy habits<\/strong>\u00a0for your body and your mind. You don\u2019t have to get stuck thinking long-term about all the yoga poses your body can\u2019t yet do. Instead, start today by respecting where your body is at.<\/p>\n

Yoga is one of the best holistic practices that nourishes your mind-body-soul all at once. Yoga keeps\u00a0your body limber, your lymph system healthy, your central nervous system calm, your muscles toned, your mind clear, your heart beating strong\u00a0and your spirit glowing.
\nSimply put, it\u2019s\u00a0GREAT for your mental, spiritual and physical health. So\u2026<\/p>\n

Here are 3 simple yoga poses to help you begin a daily yoga practice for life:<\/b><\/p>\n