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Smart, safe fitness classes for boomers and beginners. Senior friendly fitness that provides the most benefit for the least risk, with Helen Stutchbury.

It shouldn't have to hurt to stop hurting, but most of believe the "no pain no gain" rule. And most of us are in some kind of pain most of the time. And most of us can get out of pain without risk of further injury. This isn't an easy-does-it-time waster. You'll work hard - but safely, effectively, and within your own range and fitness level. You'll have some muscle soreness as you awaken and strengthen new palces - but that's traveling away from pain, not further in. If what you want is simply to feel good - you don't need more pain. This is The Yoga You Need™. Take it home: http://www.theyogayouneed.com/store/p1/DVD%3A_Power_Yoga_for_Seniors_1.html

07/04/2021

The Yoga You Need is about strength, balance, stability, and pain free movement. It makes it easier to achieve the yoga you (might) want, and a life that feels better, longer. Join us live in Osoyoos, B.C. 🇨🇦 or on zoom from your room, 8 times a week all summer. Your older self will love you for it. ❤️

03/13/2021

The other day I posted about practicing how to walk correctly, because if you’re like most people, you don’t. Nonetheless, the muscles in your hips and legs are pretty skillful at moving you along. They let you roll over your feet, bouncing across the planet, day after day, year after year. But later in life, when you’ve got bone on bone compression, arthritis, or you fall and break a hip, you find out that mobility without stability isn’t good enough. We need both - especially in those hard working hips.

I practice stillness in the walking line as a way to maintain stable strength and balance in my hips, and it’s a practical, easy tool for anyone.

You’ve got to work at keeping the back foot facing forward - that’s the hard part. Lifting your arms isn’t required, but it makes your legs work harder automatically. You’ll wobble and shake at first, but stability builds quickly - your body wants to do it right. When you get good at it, close your eyes. A minute or two per day on each side is a good practice; longer if you like.

If you want to live with your own happy hips for the long game, you’ve got to practice having happy hips now.

That’s

03/10/2021

Enlightenment happens by accident.
Meditation makes you accident prone.

One of my favorite yoga principles is a simple reminder to practice. If we knew how to get to enlightenment, we’d all choose it, but we can’t. We can only practice the things that make it possible to have this happy accident.

Whether you are hoping for enlightenment, or just happiness, contentment, or peace of mind, meditation is one of the practices that can increase the odds you’ll achieve it. But so is yoga, and walking, your art form, helping others, your passion.

In stories, even sweeping the path can get you there.

This principle is about practice.

And really, anything you practice with intention, focus, discipline, and mindfulness leads toward happiness.

Awakening is always an accident. Our practices make us accident prone.

If we want a better life, we must practice those things that make life better.

How will you practice happiness today?

That’s

03/10/2021

When’s the last time you practiced walking? Probably not since you were less than 2 years old, right? Most of us stop practicing a thing we think we’ve mastered. We just do it the way we do it, and never think about it again.

But what if you are doing it wrong? What if your walk is walking you toward pain?

You might be surprised how little it takes, and how likely it is that you are creating your own future of bad knees, bad hips, bad back, bad shoulders, bad neck.

Gravity doesn’t just hold you onto the earth; it pulls you toward it. If you aren’t fighting against that, you are actively allowing your bones to crush together. When your doctor says “bone on bone compression” - you did that.

You’ve got to walk tall, and lift the front of your rib cage a little. Open the chest. Pull the back of your head into line with the back of your body.

And put your toes forward. We sit and sleep and stand with our toes pointing away from us, and many many many people walk that way too. So you overuse the outer hip and leg muscles, and underuse the amazing power and potential of your inner hip and leg muscles. And eventually, it all falls apart.

I swiped the last picture from a video ad for walking to lose weight. Two strong looking folks just strolling along. But watching their feet all the way to their hips shows me they are walking their way towards pain.

Ask someone to shoot a video of you walking. If one or both of your feet swings away from front and center, consider fixing that.

Practice walking again. Toes in front. Heart proud. Head on top, not in front. Don’t worry, your brain will get home at the same time as the rest of you; it doesn’t have to be rushing out in front.

Walk with your hips, not your head.

It’s simple things that make a big difference.

Just practice.
It’s

03/08/2021

If we want a better life, we have to practice having a better life, until it becomes our life.

We practice eating well, sleeping well, moving well, loving well, living well.

Making space in your day for things that will improve it is just another practice. Scheduling is practice.

Scheduling your week to include a smart, safe, low risk, high reward exercise system that reduces pain and increases ease is often harder to practice than the practice itself.

With yoga on zoom, you don’t even have to get dressed. You can roll out of bed, roll out your mat, and let me take over. The hour zooms by before you know it, and the rest of your day is better.

Without even leaving the house.
So let’s practice.

The Yoga You Need is on Zoom,
5 times a week, so you can practice feeling better.

Tuesdays & Thursdays at
7:00 am PST / 9:00 am CST

Sundays, Tuesdays & Thursdays at
8:30 am PST 10:30 am CST.

$10🇨🇦/$8🇺🇸

www.helenstutchbury.com

Everything you want is just a practice away. That’s

01/11/2021

A safe, smart, user friendly yoga practice can make your whole day better. When you add frequency and consistency, better days become better weeks becomes a better life. With less pain, more energy, more calm, cool and collected.
That’s

I’m now zooming 3 times a week:
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
8:30 am PST/10:30 am CST
$10 🇨🇦 / $8 🇺🇸

You can register on my website and I’ll send you the link.

Get hooked on feeling good.
www.helenstutchbury.com

12/23/2020

Stuck on the inside?
Getting antsy while waiting for Santa?
I’m in the zoom room for an hour of distraction! Beginner friendly movement is The Yoga You Need.
8:30 am PST / 10:30 am CST
$10🇨🇦 / $8🇺🇸

Book your spot at www.helenstutchbury.com for the link.

12/21/2020

Fill your week with warm, wonderful things. Zooming yoga is low key, beginner friendly, feel good movement that sets you up for a great day.

Tuesdays and Thursdays
8:30 am PST / 10:30 am CST
$10🇨🇦 / $8🇺🇸

Register on my website for the link:
www.helenstutchbury.com

12/16/2020

With regards to your body,
are you being naughty or nice?
Join me on Tuesdays and Thursdays
for yoga at home, and burn off some of that fruitcake.

8:30 am PST / 10:30 am CST
$10 🇨🇦 is less than $8 🇺🇸
so you can whittle your waistline,
not your wallet.

Www.helenstutchbury.com is the place to sign up. See you in the zoom room! 😉

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