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Restoring Flexibility: A Gentle Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age Paperback – August 11, 2021

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This fully illustrated, step-by-step program shows readers how to optimize stretching and yoga exercises to improve mobility, prevent injury, and promote long-term health.

No matter what age you begin doing yoga, it will help you steadily renew your physical abilities. Done over four weeks, this 25-minute, twice-weekly program features gentle poses, practice sequences and techniques to help you:
  • Improve your posture
  • Increase spinal flexibility
  • Release tightness in your shoulders
  • Relax the muscles in your torso
  • Expand mobility in your hip joints
  • Reduce the chances of falling

This book’s safe, age-appropriate, customizable approach to yoga-based exercise is specifically designed to restore your flexibility, mobility, and agility while ensuring a longer life and more independent lifestyle. As this flexibility practice becomes a regular habit, you’ll feel more energetic and enjoy moving freely. Your favorite physical activity, like walking, golf and even dancing, will once again became a personal pleasure.
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Andrea Gilats, Ph.D., R.Y.T., is a certified yoga teacher, writer, and nationally recognized expert on later-life learning who spent three decades as an award-winning educational leader at the University of Minnesota. Through Third Age Yoga, her community-based teaching practice, she has worked with hundreds of vital people in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond who seek a body-sensitive, age-appropriate approach to yoga. Her Third Age Yoga videos have been viewed over 20,000 times on YouTube, and she offers helpful tidbits about yoga, exercise, and aging well on her Third Age Yoga Facebook page.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1612434916
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ulysses Press; 1st edition (August 11, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781612434919
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1612434919
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.33 x 9.25 inches
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Andrea Gilats is a writer, educator, artist, and former yoga teacher who was the founder and longtime director of the University of Minnesota's legendary Split Rock Arts Program and Split Rock Online Mentoring for Writers. She is the author of RADICAL ENDURANCE: Growing Old in an Age of Longevity (University of Minnesota Press, 2024), AFTER EFFECTS: A Memoir of Complicated Grief (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), and RESTORING FLEXIBILITY: A Gentle Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age (Ulysses Press, 2015).

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Kaley Quinn
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2024
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I am older now and not as flexible as I once was. I can’t do all the Power Yoga like I used to. Now I like to have a more gentle yoga practice. This book is very helpful for that. I feel that if I use it regularly, I can get a lot of my flexibility back. It will also help my back and neck pain.
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AwesomeBEA
5.0 out of 5 stars Get loose with this book
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2015
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When I picked up Restoring Flexibility, I knew it would be right up my alley. I've danced for a number of years and that has fallen by the wayside. I can definitely see that I've lost a good amount of flexibility. The way the author, Andrea Gilats wrote about her experience, I knew this would be a good book to get me on track. Not only for me, but possibly for my mother who doesn't exercise very much at all.
Gilats talks about starting yoga at 62 years of age and battling Crohn's disease. If an older woman with physical ailments can use yoga to get back on track, then it's a good chance it can work for just about anyone. 25 minutes, twice a week. That's all it takes to improve flexibility and in turn, agility.
I'm only 30 and not nearly active enough. My worry is for the future as I begin to age and lose mobility. Gilats lets the reader know it's not too late. What happens to our bodies as we get older is 30% inheritance, 70% lifestyle.
This book is the most comprehensive step-by-step yoga guide I've ever read. There are pictures to give the reader a better grasp on how to tackle poses. Nothing seems hard and they aren't supposed to be. This is about flexibility. If you want to get more advanced, work on that after you gain the flexibility.
With a little time commitment and the included charts (One can break the day into mini-sessions: Morning, Midday, Evening and go-anywhere), there is no reason why one wouldn't be able to succeed. There is even a section that shows step by step how to get down into yoga positions without hurting oneself. You are set with this book.
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Danie
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the things we both realized I needed was to get more movement and flexibility with my bodies - it was really deterring me
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2015
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I've been working hard getting back into shape with a gym 3 days a week and personal trainer twice a week. One of the things we both realized I needed was to get more movement and flexibility with my bodies - it was really deterring me from doing some basic moves - like military style wallsit. My PT and I decided to integrate some yoga moves into my workouts, but also my every day lifestyle. She ordered this book for me so that I could have some basic guidelines when I am at home trying to work it out. What a great book! I was very nervous about implementing new moves but this book was so easy to read and understand - it was a great motivator too. I really appreciated the style of the book - showing photos and letting the reader know what was right and what was wrong. I now look forward to the 20-30 minutes a day I try to integrate yoga into my life. GREAT BOOK, especially for anyone too nervous to go to yoga without knowing the moves. This is a great book
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JQ
4.0 out of 5 stars what I found to be the most useful is the last part of the book which centers ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2015
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This book delves into the use of yoga as a means of regaining flexibility. The first four or so chapters are dedicated to deciding if yoga is right for you, why you should choose to use yoga for regaining flexibility and in some ways in form of a workout and how to get started from deciding a routine to gathering the supplies. The book also brings several different poses to restore upper body and lower body flexibility, spinal centering, and centering your breath. Each of the poses is accompanied with photos of how to complete the poses and an explanation of each pose. However, what I found to be the most useful is the last part of the book which centers on how to make yoga a routine and a part of your daily life.
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J. Harrison
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally found a Yoga book that is helpful for me!
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2016
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I love this book! I'm 64 years old with little to no flexibility and back and hip issues. Following the instructions in this book for just a week has already given me noticeable improvements in my flexibility and back pain.
There are no wasted words or constant repetitions in this book. I find this so irritating in other books. Everything is laid out in an easily understandable order with clear instructions and numerous photos showing you exactly how to do each movement.
At the end of the book are some suggested sessions to use twice a week. They reference the page numbers where you find the instructions, but after learning to do the exercises the proper way and repeating them a few times, you don't even need to refer to the detailed instructions.
I don't think this book would be challenging enough for younger, more flexible women, but older, out of shape women like me - whether a little younger or a little older, should be as happy as I am to have found it.
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Zaabaa
5.0 out of 5 stars Flex Your Restoration Capabilities
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2015
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I recently bought this book for my aging mother after her and I talked about her hurting/aging joints and muscles. I was hoping to find something geared towards the older person, but at the same time was an effective restorative workout. This book did not disappoint! It goes into detail regarding how to use the book, and caters towards people with limited flexibility, outlining such things as how to get up and down. There are different sections for each area of the body including spine, toes, legs, etc. and each pose/sequence is clearly illustrated and described. My mother particularly liked the sequence for restoring hip flexibility, and after only a few days of doing this 'gentle yoga' can feel improvements. As an added bonus the book also includes an entire 'four-week program' designed to help with flexibility in all areas. I know my mom is excited to dive in, and while four weeks seems a little optimistic, I think she will definitely begin to feel better.
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Line Gorham
5.0 out of 5 stars Very easier to follow
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toni
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth every penny
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2018
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Although not elderly, I am as flexible as a piece of granite. Previous exercise classes/DVDs/books all seem to assume a certain level of flexibility that I can only aspire to. This book gives me not only exercises I can do after a fashion, but also a real hope that by continuing with them, I can at last gain a level of flexibility I could previously only dream of.
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Mrs U N Hale
5.0 out of 5 stars Gentle Yoga for restoring flexibility
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2021
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A great book, with many photos and detailed descriptions of each excercise.
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Bill Farrington
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2017
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Ideal for the older starter in yoga. One or two you tube videos also support this book
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Harry A
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2021
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Practical , realistic ambition. I.m enjoying my 1st short sessions.
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