Empowered Aging: Yoga for Strength, Freedom, and Energy
Yoga Beyond 50
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Empowered Aging: Yoga Beyond 50
Why is yoga the right way to get and stay moving over 50?
Pain is not a symptom of aging.
You read that right. Pain is NOT a symptom of aging. We may become more likely to have inflammation and edema as the years go by, but this is due to various factors - some of them under our control. All of them are addressable with the tools yoga gives us.
We’ve spent part of our lives sedentary, usually for very good reasons: families, degrees, jobs and careers, and study. A sedentary lifestyle leads to changes in fascia and loss of muscle, among other factors, creating pain, discomfort, and a lack of energy.
We’ve spent part of our lives eating less-than-wholesome foods. Again, this may be due to economic disparities, food deserts, or shift work. Perhaps working multiple jobs left little time for grocery shopping, and we let it slip. Maybe take out eased the stress of raising a family. An imbalanced diet - missing the vital nutrients of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and clean protein sources (either animal or plant)- leaves our bodies unable to repair, supply, and recover optimally. It may be a small gap, but that gap repeated over the years leaves us depleted.
Injuries that never completely healed, or weren’t addressed in the hubbub of a full life. (See everything above).
Muscle imbalances that started minor created knock-on effects until we’d lost track of which aches were chickens and which were the egg. And which comes first anyway?
Hormonal imbalances create deficits in connective tissue and bone, making it harder to build muscle. One situation that causes this is peri-menopause. Did you know this can also happen to men as you age?
Muscle that was easier to maintain in our teens, twenties, thirties, and even forties starts to disappear. Like with nutrients, the small gap that may have started in our forties compounds and yields real problems in our future decades.
Muscle loss matters not just for strength, not only for balance; lean muscle affects cognitive function, hormone balance, and metabolism.
Yoga practice reduces the molecules that are present in inflammation out of control.
Yoga practice can rebuild telomeres - the end caps protecting our DNA.
Yoga practice supports flourishing cognitive function.
Yoga reduces stress hormones and balances others: ghrelin (hunger hormone) and leptin (satiety, or “enough” hormone); progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone; supports healthy levels of oxytocin, balanced dopamine, serotonin, and melatonin; and other hormones our organs use to orchestrate their symphony of life.
Yoga gives you skills that enhance all the other sports, activities, and modalities you enjoy. Yogic breathing and movement patterns, for instance, turn your resistance and weight-lifting workouts into nervous system balancing connection activities.
From your feet to your head, and your gut to your heart, yoga provides unique benefits for our bodies as they may change.
What you will enjoy in this 4-hour workshop:
Embody the principles of yoga that keep you safe and guarantee increasing well-being.
Practice strength-building moves the yoga way for adaptable movement to last a lifetime.
Actualize healthy flexibility with the time-honored Joint Freeing Series taught by Mukunda Stiles.
Incorporate eye-gaze (drshti) in simple movement to enhance neurological benefits.
Enhance your balance journey with body, breath, and attention practices that address every level.
Engage with light discomfort as an object of meditation in one-and-a-half to two-minute mini-meditations that enhance resilience, release stuck movement patterns, ease arthritis, and create a sense of deep peace with yin yoga.
Easily incorporate simple meditation techniques into your daily life for a more profound sense of agency, connection, and resilience.
Enjoy guided relaxation journeys in restorative yoga that will dissolve stress, strain, worry and fear with repeated practice.
Bring:
We’ll have chairs for yoga and for in between.
If you have one, bring your yoga mat - don’t worry, we will have loaners, too! There will be options for a chair and a mat in every technique.
Journal, or paper & pen
Water bottle
Anything else you need for comfort during rest (eye pillow, socks, etc.)
Wear comfortable, stretchy clothes, like sweatpants, yoga pants, flowy pants and t-shirts with another layer. Feel free to bring socks for restorative yoga.
Regular hatha and yin yoga is usually done in bare feet. Your teacher can tell a great deal and give you better cues when she can see your feet and toes and how they contact the floor.
Workshop Details
📅 Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
🕤 Time: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Blue Feather Healing & Growth Center, 95 NM 344, Suite 8, Edgewood, NM 87015
💲 Investment: $62
Early Bird Pricing! First 6 people to register: code EarlyEmpowered for 20% off!!!
Your Guide
Christine Stump, E-RYT — Founder of Badlands Yoga, creating revelatory yoga, breath, and meditation practices for strength, mobility, and longevity for over two decades.
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