NY Times Q&A on Middle Aged Yoga with an MD..

It's good to know that I am on the lower end of the middle age scale. 

This is a good read,  though he is a bit of a Iyengar proponent.


Here is a good sample..   (Though he ignores the economics of the student and the cost of individual classes)

Besides these readers, Big Bird from NYC and SH and Pinotman from Chicago wrote in wanting to know the best place and the best way to begin or resume yoga when you are over 50. The absolute best way is to find out what your liabilities are, and this is an individual matter, requiring a medical visit or summary. The next step is an appointment with an experienced and smart yoga teacher, one on one. Group classes are an artifact of urban economics: the teacher cannot afford to live in the city in which she teaches any other way. But chronic conditions are cumulative, by definition: when you’re older you need the individual attention that yoga has traditionally offered.

I believe the teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar are the most anatomically sophisticated and therapeutically oriented, but there are many other good types of yoga. You’ll need a resourceful and sensitive person to get you started, and to introduce you to an appropriate yoga practice that you can do every day. Then, after a month or two or three, you should go back to that person for a reassessment and suggestions about how to progress to the next step. Yoga, practiced consistently, does good things to your temperament and perceptions.

There are are three parts


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/booming/advice-on-practicing-yoga-in-middle-age-part-1.html?ref=booming

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/booming/advice-on-practicing-yoga-in-middle-age-part-2.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/booming/advice-on-practicing-yoga-in-middle-age-part-3.html?pagewanted=all