“Changing how we live changes how we age.”
— Stanford Center on Longevity,
​The New Map of Life

Though we call it by many names — the second half of life, “the third third,” the “later years,” our “second adulthood,” retirement, seniordom or elderhood — we’ve yet to land on a term that really describes this time of life when the kids are grown, professions established — or even left behind — and our bodies are going through oh-so-many changes.

The ancient yoga tradition called it vanaprastha, the time of “the forest dweller,” and recognized it as a rich, generative stage of life with its own purpose, desires and rewards. It describes a time when we may step back — literally or metaphorically — from some of the worldly responsibilities that occupied our earlier lives and venture into the woods of what now matters most to us.
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We begin to see our mortality and the preciousness of our days. There is still plenty ahead: growth, purpose, pleasure, discovery and perhaps, if we’re lucky, even a little wisdom.
And yoga is a particularly good travel companion. Join us for yoga designed for the bodies we have now — and the lives we still want to live.

“Mountain Yoga is not special because they offer classes that I can attend as I age. Mountain Yoga is special because their classes have enabled me to age with courage, with ease and sometimes with grace.”  
~ linda f.

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