Betty

Inspiration from a 92-year-old Yogini

A few years ago, I was teaching Adaptive Yoga, a yoga class for people with severe mobility issues, mostly people who are wheelchair bound. One of my students that night was Betty. Betty does not use a wheelchair; she has full use of her whole body, but she likes the class. In Adaptive Yoga, volunteers like me facilitate movement for people who have limited mobility. Often we do hip openers by moving the legs from bent to straight to bent again. Or we rotate the leg right and left in circles to bring some lubrication to the hip joints.