Yoga For Healthy Aging
The definitive resource on how to use yoga to foster your physical, mental, and emotional health for a lifetime.
Isn’t it true that we yearn to age with as much strength and grace as possible? Numerous studies now confirm what many yoga practitioners have always known: a yoga practice has a remarkable impact on physical and mental health—and spiritual well-being—as you grow older.
Baxter Bell, MD, and Nina Zolotow, respected yoga teachers and authors of the popular “Yoga for Healthy Aging” blog, explain how yoga can address concerns related to strength, flexibility, balance, agility, cardiovascular health, brain health, and stress management, among other issues. They offer a safe, real-world yoga program to suit your particular needs, which includes poses, breathing practices, meditation, and yoga philosophy. Yoga for Healthy Aging is a yoga toolbox that will set you up for a lifetime of emotional and spiritual well-being.
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Praise for Yoga for Healthy Aging
“Yoga for Healthy Aging is highly informative, compassionate and a joy to read. It is the most comprehensive text I’ve yet read about this process we’re all navigating and how our yoga practice can grow with us as we age. Yoga for Healthy Aging is a book that you can turn to for knowledge and inspiration for the rest of your life.”
“Thank you, Baxter and Nina, for creating this important yoga gem, which both allows us to refine our practice to be a boon to our health as we age and to create a sharper lens through which to know ourselves.”
“Baxter Bell and Nina Zolotow share a wealth of information on using yoga safely to age with greater flexibility, strength, balance, and grace, both physically and psychologically. This user-friendly book will be a gift to yoga practitioners (and would be practitioners), as well as those who teach them.”
“We might imagine from the title that this is a book only for the seniors among us. But in fact, the practices and supporting material will benefit both young and old alike. It will help the former establish a solid foundation for their future well-being and teach the latter how to maintain that well-being long into their ‘golden’ years.”
“All the yoga in the world will not stop us from getting older, but it can help us approach the journey with more grace, agility, and assuredness. Baxter Bell and Nina Zolotow show us how in Yoga for Healthy Aging. Their conversational style and gentle humor make their comprehensive medical knowledge and yoga teaching wisdom easily accessible to everyone—from beginning students to advanced teachers. And I love that they’ve given us concrete ways of celebrating who we are—instead of dreading what we fear we’ll become—with each passing decade. A true gift for all ages.”
Below, we have provided a sample chapter from Yoga for Healthy Aging so you can get a sense of what to expect from the book. Please scroll down. In the bottom left corner of the chapter inset you will find a set of Arrows & Zoom Tools. Page through the 17 pages or zoom in/out as desired. Enjoy.