The Driving Question

For my driving question, I chose to explore the advantages of yoga for middle-aged adults. Initially, I wanted to look into the benefits of dance for senior citizens but started to come across several barriers before the research even began. I thought the research was going to come to a quick stop because I could only think about the reasons why dance could potentially pose more of a risk to senior citizens than being advantageous. From there, I started thinking about my other passions and hobbies in life that I could spend 20% of the semester researching. Yoga is one of my top five favorite things to do. It's an activity that allows me to demonstrate certain skills I learned from dance including flexibility, grace and strength. Most importantly, yoga is one of the best ways to relieve yourself of stress and worry. I thought to focus on the specific age group of middle-aged adults because of a recent class I took. The class was called acro-yoga which combines acrobatics plus yoga, but the instructors looked as if they were in their late 30's, early 40's. The man and woman were extremely fit and able to do all these poses with ease. There's the origin of my driving question.