When I was teaching yoga for healthy aging regularly to a small group of older people, I quickly realized that several of the students were very weak. For example, one woman had trouble balancing because knee problems led her to stop walking and her legs had lost a lot of strength. So even though I had originally intended to cycle between sequences focused strength, flexibility, balance, and agility, which would mean focusing on strength only once a month, I decided that I should include some strength building poses in every single yoga for healthy aging class I taught. It also motivated me to share some of my favorite strengthening poses with our readers in my post The Importance of Yoga for Strength.
Featured Sequence: Bone Strength Practice. Baxter designed this short, accessible yoga practice for building overall bone strength.
Easy Mini Upper Body Strength Practice. I designed this short, easy practice to help you regain upper body strength.
Building Upper Body Strength the Easy Way. I designed this practice to show how you can build upper body strength with simple common asanas (no, you don’t need to do arm balances!).
Featured Sequence: Upper Body Strength. Baxter designed to get you started on the road to a stronger upper body.
Featured Sequence: Lower Body Strength. This sequence by Baxter is an all-around strengthening sequence for your lower body.
Meet Your Hardworking (and Possibly Under-Appreciated) Outer Hip Muscles. This post by Ellen Saltonstall explains why your outer hip muscles are so important and provides a set poses you can practice to strengthen them.
Featured Sequence: Core Strength Practice. This post by Baxter includes information about what your “core” actually is and provides poses to strengthen more than just your abdominals.
