Seventy-one-year-old Marian Hall leads weekly summer driveway yoga that draws neighbors—many in their 70s and 80s—to one driveway each Sunday evening. Classes mix seated and standing poses and use chairs or a garage door for support so participants can practice safely at their own level. Hall began practicing while caring for an ill daughter, learning from library DVDs, and later completed an intensive teacher training in her 50s after her children gifted enrollment. The gatherings create social connection as attendees chat before and after class and share informal moments like a glass of wine.
"It just brings people together," says Hall. "They talk before class, hang around afterward, maybe even have a glass of wine. You get to know people in a way you wouldn't otherwise."
"I had kind of talked about it," she says. "I was just kind of curious. But I probably would not have made the move had they not done it. Just time and money, and South Bend was not the yoga mecca, I would say, at that time."
"I came home and cried every night," she says.
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