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With the arrival of Spring and the promise of some decent sunshine, take the opportunity to get outdoors and top up your vitamin D levels.

In this lovely, centering practice, the simple aim is to count backwards, from 30.

Sit or lie comfortably, with a straight spine. Close the eyes and begin to notice the soft rise and fall of your breathing.

When you are ready, begin to count down from 30. Without forcing or changing the breath in any way, just count in time with your breath.

'Advanced age is not a static, irreversible biological condition of unwavering decreptitude.

'Does yoga practice make life easier? Most assuredly, all that is onerous and cumbersome does not go away.

Yet our once implacable desire for certainty wavers in the face of something better: living in awe, wonder, and delight.

'However beautifully we carry out an asana, however flexible our body may be, if we do not achieve the integration of body, breath, and mind we can hardly claim that what we are doing is yoga.