Flourish As You Age
BRAIN HEALTH
MENTAL MANAGEMENT
A GOOD DEATH
Let's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age!
The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life. You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component.
1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health
2) Managing your mental states - see Flourishing
3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))
You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections."
Flourish As You Age
BRAIN HEALTH / YOGA: Brandee Goatcher, What is Yoga?
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I started doing yoga on a regular basis at age 65. Brandee Goatcher was my first teacher and she helped me to embrace the practice and become a regular practitioner. For Brandee, the essence of yoga is "falling in love with our bodies and all they can do."
What a lovely idea. And being able to fall in love with our bodies as we age is incredibly important. Too often we bemoan the little and persistent ways that our bodies begin to betray us as we age. We focus on the aches and pains and indulge in what my buddy Roger calls "the organ recital," the recitation of all of the organs that have begun to work improperly.
I still have the aches and pains, but yoga has helped me to explore what my body is capable of doing. And, I have been able to expand my movement repertoire. I am stronger and more flexible at age 73 than I was at age 65. Use it or lose it.
Brandee and I discuss yoga and her style of teaching.
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