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Success Story: Barbara Roberts, Grant Development Coordinator, Miami University Middletown
By: Samantha Friedman, sophomore, studying Journalism and Health Studies.
Five years ago, Barbara worked as a childbirth instructor in Phoenix, Arizona. She was used to demonstrating on the floor for these lessons. When she moved to Ohio, this kind of work stopped and she became stiff and less flexible. She felt her body become tighter. Her friend who is a personal trainer said that if she didn???t start stretching or becoming active again she would be using a cane in ten years. She felt that she had to do something, fast.
When Miami University Middletown Campus started offering Yoga classes through Employee Health & Well-Being, Barbara thought they would be the best way to enhance her health and improve her mobility. This would be her first time taking organized Yoga classes.
Now, a year later, Barbara can sit on the floor cross-legged with no problems, which wasn???t even imaginable a year ago. She finds herself being more mobile and able to move freely. She has better balance and her blood pressure has lowered.
Barbara now goes to Yoga class two times a week at work. She says that the Employee Health & Well-Being classes are much more enjoyable than when she did Yoga on tape by herself years ago. Barbara says that the instructor, Terri, is wonderful.
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