EMPOWERED AGING
Everyday Yoga Practices for Bone Health, Strength and Balance
Yoga offers a path for self-understanding and transformational growth that welcomes you at any stage of your life, despite the health challenges you may have. You can start wherever you are and work intelligently from there, with many choices to be made along the way. You learn to love and respect your body with all its quirkiness and limitations. What you need is reliable information and compassionate guidance from a qualified teacher, which is what I provide.
“Ellen Saltonstall makes these benefits accessible to people of all ages and ability levels, enabling you to begin with the yoga poses that are right for you, to modify your current practices as you experience age-related changes, and to progress at your own pace. This is truly empowering!”
— Nina Zolotow, coauthor of Yoga for Healthy Aging and author of Yoga for Times of Change
“With ‘Empowered Aging’, Ellen Saltonstall has yet again given us a useful, practical and insightful new book that will be helpful to a wide range of individuals. Written in clear, understandable language, with a smattering of interesting science, those new to yoga or returning to the practice will find it invaluable in guiding their yoga practice. And yoga teachers will find unique approaches to modifying poses for their students at risk for or with Osteoporosis and other challenges of aging.”
— Baxter Bell, MD, coauthor of Yoga for Healthy Aging
EMPOWERED AGING
Everyday Yoga Practices for Bone Health, Strength and Balance
Publication: January 2, 2024
Format: Trade paperback / Kindle / ePub
ISBN:
978-1-945847-74-5 (paperback)
978-1-945847-75-2 (ePub)
B0CQTQPPZ8 (Kindle)
8” x 10”, 200 pages, 140 illustrations
Empowered Aging: Everyday Yoga Practices for Bone Health, Strength and Balance
by Ellen Saltonstall
Do you want to remain strong and active throughout your life?
Embrace the journey of remaining active while aging. This comprehensive guide by seasoned yoga therapist Ellen Saltonstall offers a fresh perspective on living with courage, vitality and grace.
Drawing from the wisdom of yoga, this book provides professional guidance, gentle adaptations, and compassionate support to improve your bone health, strength and balance while enhancing your overall well-being so you can enjoy the fullness of life at any age.
Each chapter is filled with simple and easy-to-follow instructions that can be done from the comfort of your own home. The expert advice makes this book an invaluable resource for those seeking to reclaim their vigor.
Whether you’re new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, Empowered Aging will inspire you to take control of your health and embrace your golden years with confidence.
Available at fine bookstores and online, in print and e-book versions.
What Readers Are Saying
Empowered Aging is an authoritative and accessible guide to practicing yoga safely as you age. With crystal-clear instructions, as well as pointers to adapt and refine, this book is a must-have for practitioners and teachers alike. If you want to reap the wide-ranging benefits of yoga for vibrant and healthy aging—or if you teach people who do—get this book!
—Barrie Risman, author of Evolving Your Yoga
I’ve been studying yoga with Ellen Saltonstall since 2001 and credit what I’ve learned from her for being in good shape now at almost eighty. When I’ve taken a class with someone else over these twenty-two years, Ellen’s teachings about anatomy and alignment have helped me stay safe and get the maximum benefit from each pose.
—Joan Rothchild Hardin, PhD, clinical psychologist in private practice
Ellen Saltonstall’s statement at the beginning of Empowered Aging about yoga being “adaptable to different needs” is exactly how she teaches yoga for aging clients in this concise and informative book. I have studied with Ellen and in her book she pays just as much attention to detail and physical safety as she does in her studio. The poses she describes in the book have helped me move my osteoporosis numbers! I highly recommend it.
—Joyce Cohen, actor
If you are looking to enjoy the many age-defying benefits of yoga, Empowered Aging is for you! Ellen Saltonstall is a rare and gifted yoga teacher, who combines decades of study and teaching of yoga with a unique ability to make it enjoyable, inspiring and effective, no matter what your previous experience level is. Yoga is not a one-size-fits-all, and with the knowledge in this book, Ellen empowers the reader to make yoga their own and guides us brilliantly into that wonderful journey of transformation that is yoga.
—Eva Norlyk Smith, president of YogaUOnline