Can elderly persons who are over 60 years of age for the first time in their life can learn and start doing practice of some yogasanas.Also does persons who are identified as heart patients and who are over 60 years can learn pranayama and do the exercises at that age.
Yes and yes.
There are considerations for older students especially if the bones have become brittle.
Heart patients are treated based on their heart condition rather than their age but the age of course is to be considered. Poses for those with heart issues should be modified such that no pressure is placed on the diaphragm. Those with heart issues interested in yoga wold be wise to select a teacher with therapeutic training.
Those teachers without therapeutic training who have students with heart issues would be wise to consult their teacher, teacher trainer, or a senior teacher who has worked with heart patients before in a therapeutic and efficacious manner.
Yes they can .
There`s nothing to add to inner athletes post.
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Lars
A person 60 years of age in general can definitely take up yoga and pranayama exercises. There may be restriction to what a person can do, I would recommend a gentle yoga class with a notable teacher qualified in teaching older adults and students with restrictions. The older adult should also see a doctor first to get advice on which positions to not do, pranayama, ect. It would be a good idea to have someone explain the poses and pranayama techniques and whay they do to the doctor in order to see what not to do. There are a few good books on yoga for seniors; The new Yoga for People over 50, by Suza Francina (actually I am surprised how incomplete the amount of published information there is on this topic, I have been looking for books, and studying this for years). Swami Sivananda gives a good yoga breathing technique for seniors in the book- the Sivananda Companion to Yoga, published by the Sivananda Yoga Center. If you need an explanation on this let me know. Namaste, Hanuman