(21 May 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 28 March 2025
1. Medium shot Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan center
2. Push in yoga chair
3. Slow push out yoga chair class practitioners
4. Various of yoga practitioner
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Marian Rivman, Yoga Practitioner:
"You're stretching your whole body. I mean, you're getting all the joints at one point or another. And also what you can do in a chair is that it's a little bit more forgiving on the knees and on the hips. So as you age, it allows you to get into positions that you were doing, standing with the use of the chair and then being able to really do the pose without hurting yourself."
6. Push out of yoga class
7. Various of yoga class practitioners
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Harriet Luria, Yoga Practitioner:
"I took it up because I have osteoporosis and the chair Yoga is much easier. You don't have to worry as much about falling and breaking everything. Anything. Not everything. It is not as difficult as I thought it would be, but it's not easy. And you really do use your muscles. It's an excellent workout."
9. Cutaway various yoga chair class instructor
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Whitney Chapman, Yoga Instructor:
"I've known these ladies probably 18 to 20 years. And the very first time in a yoga class I brought in the chair. All of my students said I don't want geriatric yoga. I'm not an old person. And then they saw that just having a chair is just as good as a yoga strap. A block. It's another prop that's going to help you do what you want to do. So it's not necessary because you're older, but it can be helpful and it doesn't mean you're geriatric just because you're sitting in a chair.
11. Medium yoga class practitioners
12. Various of yoga class practitioners
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Carol Leister, Yoga Practitioner:
“I've been looking for all different kinds of exercises to do, kind of a portfolio of exercises and this is one of them. And this is the one that I could see doing for the rest of my life where some that are a little more strenuous. I may at some point in the future may not be able to do. But this is one that is good exercise and I can do it for a long time.”
14. Slow push in of yoga class
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Whitney Chapman, Yoga Instructor:
"In group classes in general, whether it was an exercise group class or weight bearing class or yoga, you tend to see more women. Women tend to be more group oriented. I would love to see more men in class. I do have a few. I don't know if they're intimidated, but it's a great way to meet women. If everybody single. (laughs)
16. Various of yoga class practitioners
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Carol Leister, Yoga Practitioner:
"It's never too early to start. You know, if you're doing all kinds of yoga, do chair yoga and....You don't have to be old. You can do it as you're young and you can do it with all sorts of yoga. So put it, you know, do it with all the yoga practice that you do."
18. Slow push out of yoga class
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Marian Rivman, Yoga Practitioner:
"Start. And if you want to start where you can really feel like you're confident and in control. Start in a chair."
20. Slow push out of yoga class
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Marian Rivman, Yoga Practitioner:
"Get into a chair and do some yoga."
22. Tracking Pan of yoga class
STORYLINE:
Marian Rivman is pushing 80. Harriet Luria is a proud 83. In this trio, Carol Leister is the baby at 62. Together, they have decades of experience with yoga. Only now, it involves a chair.
Leister recently retired.
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