- January 12, 2025
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For more than three years, Margaret Flick has been attending Winter Garden Yoga. There, her regular yoga practiced has helped the longtime resident of West Orange with stress-relief, aches and pains and even helped with her recovery from a pair of recent surgeries. At age 60, Margaret and her husband Tom are regularly active and she credits much of that to her yoga practice.
That was a little over three years ago, and mainly at that time, what I wanted was stress relief. I had a few little aches and pains that I just thought were normal. It wasn’t until I started coming here consistently … that those aches and pains went away.
First of all, stress relief. They teach you to breathe and there is a portion of every class that you get to really relax. Primarily, at Winter Garden Yoga, it’s body mechanics and learning how to move your body that will benefit you 24/7. And mobility — that’s what they really work on here.
I used to walk, and I currently go to a rowing studio for my cardio conditioning (Live2Row). Actually, the two are very complementary. … Many years ago I used to swim. My husband and I, we ride a tandem-bike.
They really understand body mechanics. … We’re like a family here. We really get to know each other, and sometimes we go to Axum afterward for coffee. You also have accountability, because they’ll miss you if you don’t come. You can trust that they’re going to do things with the correct postures.
Sit-down restaurant would be Thai Blossom, and for healthy, on-the-go food it would be Press’d (Juice Bar & Kitchen) down at Plant Street Market.
I like to read, and I used to like to garden. I used to do a vegetable garden for quite a few years. I had to give that up because of the squirrels.
