Mary Louise Stefanic teaches two yoga classes per week at Loyola University, Chicago. She is 80 years old.
Chicago yoga classes tend to be filled with diversity, and not only because the Windy City is a transportation hub and a major industrial center. For whatever reason, yoga seems to attract people of all backgrounds, body types and ages.
Recently, the Oak Park-River Forest Patch reported on a beginners' Chicago yoga instructor who is setting the bar for experience, maturity and seniority.
Mary Louise Stefanic teaches two yoga classes per week at Loyola University, Chicago. Many of her students are pushing 65, but she still has them beat. According to the news source, Stefanic is 80 years old.
She explained that she began doing yoga 45 years ago, back when the regimen was not nearly as popular and widely accepted as it is today.
Now, of course, yoga classes abound in Illinois. The Chicago Tribune recently reported that hundreds of instructors live and work in the city, offering everything from gentle stretching to the most rigorous forms of the discipline.
Stefanic explained that she prefers the low-impact, calming variety.
"I think it's changed the face of America," she told the news source, adding that at her age, the system helps her maintain good posture and range of motion.
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