Ina Mirx 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 Mirx 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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