Today’s Star-Ledger has a feature on Little Silver resident Barbara Sager, a yoga instructor who specializes in clients with Multiple Sclerosis and other conditions that limit their mobility.
redbankgreen readers may recognize the name or the face: in March, we highlighted Sager for her participation in 20 consecutive annual MS fundraising walks.
The Sledger piece focuses on the retired telecommunications industry worker’s transformation from yoga student to instructor, and its role in fulfilling her desire to help MS patients. Sager’s mother and grandmother had the disease.
“People may wonder, at first, how someone with a disability could possibly do yoga. Some poses can be adapted by using a chair as a prop, standing at a wall or lying on your belly. I do what I can to help. I’ve even sat behind one student so she doesn’t topple over,” she said.
“Yoga is very therapeutic. It can help you increase your flexibility and balance through the various stretches and poses, and reduce tension and stress. And there’s a lot of attention to alignment and breathing,” Sager said.
Sager teaches her class at the Monmouth County Park System’s Sunnyside Recreation Area in Lincroft. Info and registration is available here.
