DUE TO CORONAVIRUS, WE HAVE CANCELLED THIS WEEKEND WORKSHOP
Yoga for Healthy Aging
Join us in welcoming Baxter Bell, MD, C-IAYT, eRYT500, YACEP, back to our community for another enlightening and fun-filled weekend. Baxter will continue guiding us on our journey into the world of Yoga for Healthy Aging with the introduction of new props, new focuses for our practice, and exciting new thinking on pain, stress, and how yoga fits in.
SCHEDULE:
Reframing Pain and Movement – Friday evening
6:30p - 8:30p, $60
Turns out many of us are operating on old ideas of what pain is and what it means, especially as it relates to our yoga practices. For example, the presence of pain does not necessarily or usually indicate tissue damage. Honing our skills around the concept of “interroception” may be key to a new approach to yoga and addressing persistent pain. This session will introduce some unique practices.
Myo-Fascial Make-Over- Drumstick Madness – Saturday early afternoon
12:30p - 3:00p, $70
Inspired by a yoga-teacher student, Baxter has discovered the many benefits of using a drumstick (not the chicken kind- the rock-n-roll kind!) as a new yoga prop, as it adds to our improvement in the 4 key physical skills of Yoga for Healthy Aging, as well as challenging the brain and our mental focus. Prepared to be rocked!
Rethinking Stress: It Ain’t All Fight or Flight! – Saturday late afternoon
3:30p - 6:00p, $70
It just so happens we may have been sold a bill of goods when it comes to stress and the “stress response”. We are continually told that stress is toxic for our health and that we are constantly triggering our “fight, flight or freeze” response. Yet that is only one third of the story, and the other two thirds are surprisingly good news for actual health benefits of the stress response!
Follow the Bouncing Balls- More Myo-Fascial Mojo! – Sunday early afternoon
12:30p - 3:30p, $85
The yoga world is coming to understand the dual relationship between our muscles and special connective tissue “fascia” and how important both are for our continued good health. We will expand on the benefits of the yoga drumsticks for our muscles and fascia by adding one of Baxter’s other recent favorite yoga props, the ridiculously inexpensive 2-Tennis-Balls-in-a-Sock!
$270 for the full weekend