Beryl Bender Birch, founder of The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute and the nonprofit Give Back Yoga Foundation, GiveBackYoga.org, both based in East Hampton, New York. She is the author of Power Yoga (Simon & Schuster), Beyond Power Yoga (Fireside) and Boomer Yoga (Sellers).
If you have a chronic medical condition, check with your doctor before beginning a yoga program, and consider consulting a…
