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Angelena Craig
Angelena Craig is a professional level Kripalu Yoga teacher and founder of Beacon Light Yoga of Boston. She currently offers both private and group instruction for beginners and more advanced students in locations including the Greater Boston area, Sarasota, Florida and yoga retreats to Jamaica, WI. In addition to offering Wellness Workshops on How to Stay Young, while Growing Older, she has produced a 75 minute, segmented video, "Angelena's Yoga Using A Chair" which may be directly viewed and ordered from www.TheNewAgingMovement.com.
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You Can’t Afford Not To
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
Have you heard yourself utter those words, especially lately? When it comes to luxuries like the cruise you were hoping to take or the new car you wanted to buy, it may be true that you can't spend the...
Tags: health care system, health insurance, massage therapist, materialistic culture, necessary nutrients
Boomers Looking for Happiness
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
At this stage in our journey, as boomers we may be experiencing a reassessment of whether we are happy, truly happy at this point having lived five or six decades.
No matter what answer you come up...
Tags: boomers, emotions, guilt, joyfulness, true happiness
Boomers Dancing
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
Remember how you once loved to dance? Maybe it was while you were still in school and there were plenty of opportunities to go out and dance with your friends or on a date. You might vaguely recall how...
Tags: aerobics, boomers, dancers, workout
Boomers Aging …Feared or Embraced?
Posted in: Search of Well-Being & Wellness Center |
Boomers, those in their 50’s and 60’s do not want to think about getting old, no way...and for good reasons. Aging has been thought of as synonymous with dread, disease, decline, disablement and finally...
Tags: aging well, attitudes, boomers
Boomers….If You’re Aging, Count Your Blessings
Posted in: Search of Well-Being & Wellness Center |
As boomers we are growing older, not so far off from what was once called old age. We can dismiss these scary and unpleasant thoughts, perhaps until we notice one or more of the following...
When we...
Tags: aging process, attitudes, boomers
Chair Yoga for Boomers
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
Learning to practice Yoga while sitting in a chair has a multitude of benefits for anyone of any age, shape, size or and fitness level. Chair Yoga is sometimes called Office Yoga. It is a wonderful alternative...
Tags: chair yoga, deep breaths, fitness
Why Breathing is an Important Part of Yoga
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
You may have the mistaken idea that Yoga is just the next best workout offered among a smorgasbord of options.
Yes, Yoga can be a workout and a really good one for all the muscles and joints. You can...
Tags: Aging gracefully, Beginning Yoga, Chair exercises, Chair Yoga DVD, dr andrew weil
Boomer Yoga for the Back
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
As we boomers age, back issues may be more common. Back pain is the primary cause of great suffering and disability. It is said that there are yearly 70,000 visits to the doctor due to back pain.
Yoga...
Tags: acupuncture, back ache, chiropractor, tight muscles, yoga practice
More and More Boomers are Turning to Yoga
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
Boomers, more than ever before are taking up Yoga. They realize it is one of the most efficient and cost effective ways to address the body/mind connection. They find that by attending a yoga class, even...
Tags: boomers, mental health, positive attitude, self improvement, yoga practitioners
Meet Our Directors
Posted in: Boomer's Speak & Coffee House Blog |
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Meet Our Director ANGELENA CRAIG We wish you and your family a very Happy New Year filled with Health, Peace and Prosperity. Angelena Craig, Director of Boomer Yoga
Tags: angelena craig, happy new year, peace, prosperity, yoga
The Purpose of Yoga
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
Hatha yoga is a system for achieving longevity, and radiant health.
Old age and sickness tend to settle first in the joints and in the spinal discs. Medial studies have revealed that these spinal discs...
Tags: conscious breathing, mental outlook, physical bodies, physical relaxation, yoga class
Where To Do Yoga?
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
When Yoga had its revival in popularity in the not too distant past, it was taught primarily in Yoga studios, a place where learning and practicing this ancient healing art was taken seriously. Students...
Tags: ancient healing art, breathing techniques, peaceful environment, postures, yoga studios
Killer Stress
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
Stress has always been around. Our ancestors had to deal with stress of a different sort than today. I think of families crossing our country in covered wagons, heading west to an unknown destination,...
Tags: chronic condition, life expectancy, living with stress, peace of mind, upset stomach
Beauty and the Aging Beast
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
Anti-aging has become the trendy buzzword, directed especially at us, the baby boomers. We are the ones paying close attention to the inevitable aging process, wanting to do it differently than perhaps...
Tags: baby boomers, dove pro age, face and body, old faces
Ten Suggestions for Doing Yoga – Off the Mat
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
If you have been studying yoga for awhile, you may have heard the expression, “practicing yoga off the mat”.
When we sit or stand “on the mat”, the one we may have carried to our yoga class,...
Tags: mind and spirit, personal edge, vitality and health
A Yoga Teacher’s Dream Student
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
Molly, a senior in college, stopped by my Boston yoga studio several years ago. She asked if I thought she could be helped by starting yoga, and then went on to explain her situation
A year ago, she...
Tags: body, mind, spirit, yoga
Health Care and Self Care
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
With so much current media attention on the health care issue, perhaps we can find some time to consider self care. Maybe you are someone who never ever thought about this topic and therefore are wondering...
Tags: preventive methods, traditional health care, vitamin supplements
Yoga For Every Body
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
There is a statistic going around stating three million people are practicing yoga on a weekly basis. My reaction is... that number is simply not high enough. So many more could reap the benefits of this...
Tags: yoga
Angelena Craig
Posted in: Boomer-Living's Authors & Wellness Authors & Yoga for Boomers |
Angelena Craig, Boomer-Living Director.
"Following her career as an administrator of schools and human service agencies, Angelena became a Kripalu Yoga Instructor in 1995. She has created the program...
Tags: chair yoga, wellness workshops, yoga practice, yoga retreat, yoga teacher
Yoga Myths Dispelled
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
To better understand why you should have a yoga practice, we need to look at the myths surrounding what yoga is, and what may be preventing you from getting started.
MYTH #1
You have to be young,...
Tags: yoga
