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part 1, Healthy Feet: April 21
part 2, Knees if you please: June 9 part 3, Hip to Your Hips: November 17 part 4, My Achy, Breaky Back: January 12 part 5, Uncranking Those Cranky Neck and Shoulders!: March 9 |
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April 21: Healthy Feet Session one of the Healthy Living Series starts from the ground up, focussing on the under-appreciated and overused foot and ankle. We'll learn about healthy feet and how to work with troublesome conditions of the foot and ankle. June 9: Knees, if you Please! When you really look at these spindly knees, holding up the rest of the body and moving us around, you can't help but be amazed! We'll not only get to know the knee joint and supporting muscles and structures in this session, but find new ways to please our knees, so we can keep 'em healthy or heal 'em up! November 17: Gettin' Hip to Your Hips Students often request "hip openers", but what does that really mean? And is it healthy to "open" the hips, which have more of a role in support for human function? These and many more questions will be addressed in this intimate look at the hips, both from the perspective of structure and function as well as therapeutically. January 12, 2013: My Achy, Breaky Back! This session is devoted to the area of the body that tends to give us human's more trouble than any other part: the lower back. Our session will introduce us to healthy anatomy and function, and look at yoga ways of improving strength and mobility of the lower back. Not appropriate for those in acute pain. March 9, 2013: A Pain in My Neck (and Shoulders) Many of us hold most our physical and mental/emotional tension in our neck and shoulders. In this workshop, you'll learn some basic anatomical structure of the area and how to work to open and strengthen this important yet vulnerable area of the body. We'll also look at more common conditions such as neck arthritis and rotator cuff strains. Not appropriate for this with acute or flared injuries. |
The Healthy Living Series. Join Mountain Yoga's own Baxter Bell, M.D. for his quarterly series focussed on deepening your understanding of your amazing body while learning how yoga can support healthier living and aging. The Healthy LIving Series works methodically illuminates the healthy workings of our body from the ground up, beginning at the foundation of the feet through the knees, hips, lumbar spine, to the neck/shoulders. Baxter teaches yoga anatomy in advance/teacher training programs throughout the country and contributes to a regular column in Yoga Journal magazine, Doctor's Orders (http://blogs.yogajournal.com/doctorsorder/.) In addition Baxter is an advocate for healthy aging advocate for healthy aging through his blog at www.yogaforhealthyaging.blogspot.com.
Baxter Bell, MD, RYT 500 has been actively deepening his understanding of yoga and relaxation since making the stress-reducing move from a career as a busy family doctor to that of a yoga teacher and medical acupuncturist. He is currently involved in the integration of therapeutic applications of yoga with Western medicine, lecturing to health care professionals around the country, adding Hatha yoga asanas and pranayama to his care of patients in his medical acupuncture practice, and teaching Experiential Anatomy for several Teacher Training programs around the country, including a new Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training program at the Niroga Center in Berkeley, CA.
registration:
registration:
Getting Hip to Your Hips - November 17
$45 by 11/10, $55 after
wrists & elbows - deep yoga discount
Must be currently enrolled in the PYS Deep Yoga Program
Achy Breaky Back - January 12, 2013
$45 by 1/5; $55 after
dy discount - healthy feet
$36 by 1/3; $45 after, Must be currently enrolled in the PYS Deep Yoga Program