Rachel Manuel

Rachel Manuel writes about healthy aging - practicing through your 50s, 60s and beyond, working with stiffness instead of against it, and adapting poses for changing bodies. The beat is personal: she practices alongside her mother, who started yoga at seventy and remains the column's toughest editor. Rachel has spent years teaching gentle community classes for older neighbors, and the questions those students actually ask - about balance, about knees, about getting up off the floor with dignity - are what become the articles. No age-defying promises; just what can reasonably help, explained kindly. She checks her modifications against the same sourcing standard as the rest of the site, and when a claim about aging bodies cannot be traced to solid research, she would rather say so plainly than borrow confidence the evidence does not have.