Fitness knows no age : San Antonio woman, 85, finds freedom through yoga
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Twenty-one pupils circled 85-year-old Gloria Lampley-Simmons like ripples in a pond.
Sitting in chairs spaced 6 feet apart, each student mimicked the yoga instructor as she tilted her head, rolled her shoulders and clasped her palms together as if in prayer.
“Just do what you can,” she said softly, as the sound of tinkling piano keys flowed from a speaker. “It’s no competition. Close your eyes, relax and focus.”
Lithe and limber, Simmons hosts free yoga sessions at the Ella Austin Community Center gym on North Pine. In addition to 10:30 a.m. chair yoga classes Mondays and Wednesdays, she hosts mat yoga on Saturdays from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Posted By Jada Teague on Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 3:16 PM click image Facebook / Carver Community Cultural Center
Eleven Reflections on September has been converted to a virtual event.
After having to reschedule a planned live performance at the Carver Community Cultural Center twice, the third time is turning out to be the charm.
Eleven Reflections of September has now been revamped as a virtual event for guests to view from home. The livestreamed theatrical experience presented by the Carver and co-produced by Art2Action will premiere on Saturday, May 1 at 8 p.m. and will be available to view online through the May 11. In the performance, writer, director and performer Andrea Assaf explores the Arab American experience, wars on/of terror, and “the constant rain of death amidst b