A Post-50 Power Yoga Routine

The best way to make a productive start on your way to becoming a post-50 Power Yoga practitioner is to work with a beginning-level routine. If you find that the routine is too difficult, don’t hesitate to use props and/or modifications. And you don’t need to work through the entire routine right off the bat. You can try practicing a half or a third of the routine, cutting down the number of recommended repetitions, and so on. In other words, make the workout work for you.

Just remember to do at least a 15-minute relaxation (and here, more is better) wherever and whenever you end!

Follow these steps:

1. Move into the persuading posture and hold for 5 breaths.

   

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2. Perform five repetitions of the upside-down walker pose.

   

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3. Perform two repetitions of the cat stretch.

   

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4. Perform two repetitions of the seated forward bend.

   

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5. Move into the cobra pose for two repetitions, holding each for 5 breaths.

   

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6. Assume the bridge pose and hold for 5 breaths.

   

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7. Do a spine toner for 5 breaths.

   

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8. Do one repetition of the missing link upward transition pose.

   

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9. Move into an extended side angle and hold for 5 breaths.

   

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10. Do one repetition of the missing link downward transition pose.

    

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11. Move into a shoulder stand and hold for 5 to 20 breaths.

    Choose whichever pose is more comfortable.

    

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12. Relax with yoga breathing for 5 breaths.

13. Lie in the corpse posture for deep relaxation for 15 to 30 minutes.

    

    Credit: Photograph by Raul Marroquin