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Ina Marx is 68,
looks 35, and can do things with her body that a 16-year-old
farm hand can't do, but she wasn't always fit-as-a-fiddle.
At the age of 30, while
pregnant, she was forced to jump from the third story of a
burning hotel. She landed on concrete, fractured her spine and
pelvis, broke several ribs -- and lost her child.
Over the next 10 years Marx
tried nearly every kind of regimen to rescue herself from this
state. Nothing worked, and she eventually reached such
desperation that she attempted suicide, twice. Then she
discovered yoga -- her salvation.
With new confidence and a new
lease on life, she began teaching yoga and has also written two
books, ''Yoga and Common Sense'' and ''Fitness for the Unfit.''
With her special yoga program,
she combines the physical aspects of Hatha Yoga with Raja Yoga,
the meditative side.
Her method is specially
designed to reach out to all those who have been left in the
dust of the high-energy, high-impact state of modern fitness
programs, and those who need to relax and unwind in a short
amount of time to relieve a lot of stress quickly.
What's more, the best thing
about Marx's form of yoga is that a few stretches a day, for a
few minutes a day -- at home or in the office -- can lead couch
potatoes and grouches to a very bright light at the end of the
tunnel.
Ina Marx is 68, looks 35, and
can do things with her body that a 16-year-old farm hand can't
do, but she wasn't always fit-as-a-fiddle.
At the age of 30, while
pregnant, she was forced to jump from the third story of a
burning hotel. She landed on concrete, fractured her spine and
pelvis, broke several ribs -- and lost her child.
Over the next 10 years Marx
tried nearly every kind of regimen to rescue herself from this
state. Nothing worked, and she eventually reached such
desperation that she attempted suicide, twice. Then she
discovered yoga -- her salvation.
With new confidence and a new
lease on life, she began teaching yoga and has also written two
books, ''Yoga and Common Sense'' and ''Fitness for the Unfit.''
With her special yoga program,
she combines the physical aspects of Hatha Yoga with Raja Yoga,
the meditative side.
Her method is specially
designed to reach out to all those who have been left in the
dust of the high-energy, high-impact state of modern fitness
programs, and those who need to relax and unwind in a short
amount of time to relieve a lot of stress quickly.
What's more, the best thing
about Marx's form of yoga is that a few stretches a day, for a
few minutes a day -- at home or in the office -- can lead couch
potatoes and grouches to a very bright light at the end of the
tunnel.
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