Suggestions for flexibility

Late last year I was hospitalized, unable to walk and on morphine for two months. After some spinal blocks, I was "cured" and realized that I was not flexible. I engaged a woman dancer from Russia who does adagio (Italian lift dancing) and ballet to train me in flexibility. The exercises and movements are the same as in Pilates or yoga. It took 3 months to become totally pain free and flexible in the upper body. I estimate that it will take another year in the lower body.

You don't have to do weight lifting, pushups, run marathons and belong to a gym to learn stretching exercises and flexibility.

Flexibility means using muscle groups and limbering up tendons that are not normally used.

I think a context would be helpful Yes, I am a 59 year old dancer. Good enough to have gone to Paris and do Argentine tango for 10 days in Paris last September. Yet, despite the cardiovascular, muscle memory and so forth, I had to get a different kind of training for flexibility. I learned to my surprise that dancing was insufficient.