Rooted and Resilient: Yoga for Healthy Aging through Functional Movement, Embodied Freedom, and Postural Integrity
4 Live Classes + 5 Recordings | Begins Mid-February | Taught by Sundari Lucey, E-RYT 500
→ Aging is not an obstacle—it’s an invitation to move, feel, and live with greater wisdom and freedom.
In this course, Sundari guides you through an embodied, therapeutic approach to yoga that supports vibrant aging, postural integrity, and freedom from pain.
Through functional movement, mindful rest, and self-inquiry, you’ll learn how to align, strengthen, and move in ways that sustain vitality—not despite aging, but through it.
Why This Course Matters
As the baby boomer generation moves into its 60s, 70s, and beyond, the need for yoga practices that honor the realities of aging bodies has never been greater. Traditional yoga often overlooks how to safely support older practitioners or those healing from injury.
Rooted and Resilient bridges that gap—empowering both students and teachers to understand how functional movement, alignment, and rest create lasting strength, resilience, and ease.
If you want to age gracefully, teach skillfully, and live with embodied freedom, this course offers the map.
🌸 What You’ll Learn
Each session combines embodied practice, informed theory, and gentle self-inquiry to support whole-person well-being.
🌿 Dynamic Interplay Between Stability & Mobility
Learn how to balance strength and flexibility for graceful, functional movement through the decades.
💫 Freedom from Pain
Discover how mindful movement, alignment, and breath can reduce chronic tension, stiffness, and discomfort.
🪑 Chair Yoga & Adaptations for Every Body
Explore accessible options for injury recovery, limited mobility, and balance challenges—ideal for personal use and for teaching older students.
🌸 Embodied Practice, Informed Theory
Integrate the latest insights in functional anatomy, aging science, and yoga therapy with embodied awareness practices.
🌙 Aging Gracefully with Optimal Rest
Experience restorative and guided relaxation practices to nourish the nervous system, improve sleep, and replenish energy.
🧘 Postural Integrity for Longevity
Enhance your understanding of how spinal alignment and balanced movement patterns support long-term strength and comfort.
💖 Self-Inquiry & Embodied Wisdom
Cultivate curiosity and compassion for your body’s evolution through reflection, journaling, and gentle awareness practices.
🌸 Who This Course Is For
✅ Individuals who want to age vibrantly, maintain mobility, and continue doing what they love.
✅ Those navigating injury, limited mobility, or recovery, looking for a yoga practice that truly meets them where they are.
✅ Practitioners who wish to feel more stable, confident, and pain-free in daily movement.
✅ Yoga teachers and wellness professionals who want to deepen their understanding of functional movement and age-aware yoga, empowering them to safely support older adults.
🌼 You’ll Leave With
- A renewed relationship with your body—confident, capable, and pain-free.
- A toolbox of safe, adaptive yoga practices to support your own longevity or to share with older adults.
- A clear understanding of how to blend yoga therapy principles with accessible movement and rest.
- A sense of empowerment: “I can enjoy my body—and my life—not despite aging, but through it.”
🌸 Course Structure
9 Total Sessions:
- 4 Live Classes – 1.5 hours each
- 2 in February (beginning mid-month, on Mondays)
- 2 in March (continuing on Mondays)
- 5 On-Demand Recordings – 1 hour each, available between live sessions for practice and integration
All live sessions are recorded and available for replay.
Start Date: Mid-February 2026
Schedule: Mondays | Time TBD
Meet Your Guide – Sundari Lucey, E-RYT 500
Sundari is a E-RYT 500 with decades of experience teaching functional movement, restorative yoga, and mindful aging. Her teaching integrates modern biomechanics with the depth of yoga philosophy, offering a compassionate, evidence-informed approach to wellness, longevity, and embodied freedom.
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