Wholistic Fitness

I have led a fairly active life over the years – running, lifting weights, triathlons (many years ago) and some adventure activities in Canada (I’m originally Canadian now living in Northern California after 12 years in New Mexico) – but durning the last several years I had been very sporadic in my training and diet allowing myself to gain weight and loose fitness.

At the age of 57 I find myself in a transformational period in my life and I’ve found your book very motivating and grounding. I love your approach and have begun to follow the Green Tara program in your book – my challege has been the High Performance Yoga® program – the sun salutations are fine but many of the other poses are difficult for me to master as my shoulders,hips, hamstrings and lower back are very tight – parsva malasana is a total no go and in halasana my feet are still quite away from touching the flower – as you can imagine virasana is pretty intense as well – so as my yoga journey is just beginning – I am happy to try to master the suggested poses and will continue to do so as I understand this is part of the process- but I was wondering if you have any suggestions regarding beginner poses that might help me transition from my current level of flexibility.

Thanks again for an amazing book!…

Sincerely…John Saville”