Starting yoga in your 70s: Bill’s journey to 100 classes

Think you’re not flexible enough to take up yoga ? Think again. Until recently Bill Hale, 74, had never done yoga in his life - now he has now attended more than 100 classes and is falling in love with it. Hale, who is retired, was first introduced to yoga at the age of 73 and attended his first class on June 14 this year.

He went to his 74th class on his 74th birthday in September and has now gone to 102 classes at the House of Yoga in Mount Maunganui . No stranger to some physical activity, he had been attending a gym but with hearing aids, due to partial hearing, he found the environment to be overwhelming with music playing at full volume. “One of the yoga teachers was at the gym and she introduced me to the idea of yoga.



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