“You are only as young as your spine is flexible.”
When I first heard this saying, I figured I must be about 500 years old. That would make me a vampire, which would be kind of cool if true, but the saying is misleading at best. It has nonetheless found its way into the yoga community. In general, most yoga teachers and practitioners have the wisdom to realise you do not need extreme flexibility to have a strong yoga practice, but somehow this quote finds its way into the mouths and keyboards of people who ought to know better. Imagine substituting ‘spine’ with ‘hamstrings’, ‘shoulders’, or any other body part. If anyone said such
