It's never too late, says Aggie

How can we de-stress and keep flexible and strong? Queen of clean Aggie MacKenzie advocates yoga. Here she speaks to Rachel Banham.

- Rachel Banham

‘Never too late’ is a saying we’re all familiar with, but how many of us take it to heart and follow our passion?

Aggie MacKenzie has done just that. Known to many through the TV series How Clean Is Your House?, she now teaches yoga too – having taken up the practice when she was 50 years old.

Aggie qualified as a yoga teacher in July 2017 and has been running ‘isolation yoga’ classes online throughout lockdown.

She believes everyone can have a go at yoga to a certain degree. One of her friends, who is 80 this year, does a one-to-one session with her every week and Aggie describes her as “a total inspiration”.

Explaining her own reasons for taking up yoga, Aggie says: “I turned 50 and I thought: ‘I need to start doing some form of exercise really. I can’t just rely on my body just to kind of fall apart.’ I’ve always done a bit of cycling, but I thought I needed to do something else.”

The more she practised yoga, the more she enjoyed it.

“I used to do it once a week and then it got to be twice a week and then I realised that if I was going away on holiday I’d take a tape with me and do it every day. And then it got to the stage when I was doing it every day and feeling that I missed it if I wasn’t,” she says.

“And it’s not about the spiritual side or anything like that. It’s more about really keeping it flexible and strong and just working with what I can do with my own body really. It’s been such a lovely discovery.”