My eyes close and I imagine the possible fountain of youth that comes as a result of practicing yoga. When I started running many years ago, not as a young woman I may add, I felt a lot of benefits then that I now receive from yoga. Something positively magical happens! Yoga opens the body to release stress, anxiety and tightness found in every day living. It undoes stiffness, tension, and soreness in my neck and shoulders from sitting hunched over a computer, from standing or from the pounding of a competitive tennis match. read more