A Doctor's Case for Yoga in Midlife: Strength, Balance and Calm
Nothing in this episode is medical advice. It is education and lived experience. Anything you are weighing for your own health is a decision to make with your own healthcare provider, who knows your history and your whole picture.
Dr. Baxter Bell left a busy family practice to teach yoga, and he co-wrote Yoga for Healthy Aging. We talk about what yoga can and cannot do as you age, why strength comes first, how to protect your balance, and the quieter practices of breath and equanimity that you can keep for the rest of your life.
In this episode, we talk about:
- What Baxter let go of, and grieved, when he left medicine for yoga
- Healthspan, not just lifespan: what yoga can and cannot do as you age
- The four essential physical skills, and why strength is the place to start
- How balance works, and how yoga helps protect your independence
- Breath, meditation and equanimity: what yoga offers beyond the poses
- Where to begin if you think you are too stiff, and what a retreat can give you that a weekly class cannot
About Dr. Baxter Bell:
Baxter Bell, MD, C-IAYT, is a physician, certified yoga therapist, medical acupuncturist and yoga educator. He was a family physician in Cincinnati before he left his practice to study yoga in California, and he has been teaching in the Bay Area for more than 25 years. He co-wrote Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being with Nina Zolotow, creates webinars for yoga teachers and practitioners on YogaUOnline, teaches classes online and in Oakland, and leads retreats several times a year with his wife, Melina Meza.
Connect with Dr. Baxter Bell:
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Email: [email protected]
Retreats and teaching schedule: baxterbell.com
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Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being* by Baxter Bell, MD, and Nina Zolotow: Shambhala
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A correction: in our conversation, Baxter and I say Yelapa looks out on the Sea of Cortez. It actually sits on Banderas Bay, on Mexico’s Pacific coast, just south of Puerto Vallarta.
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One more time because it matters. Nothing in this episode is medical advice. Any decision about your own health belongs with your own healthcare provider, who knows your history and your whole picture.
