Yoga for Healthy Aging Winter Intensive: January 9 to 13, 2017

Sign ups are now open for next the Yoga for Healthy Aging intensive and teacher certification on January 9th-13th, 2017! 

This winter’s Yoga for Healthy Aging workshop will be taught by Baxter Bell and Melina Meza (Nina will not be participating—see note below.) The intensive will be held in Berkeley, California at Namaste Berkeley. To sign up for the intensive, you must do so through Namaste Berkeley at http://ilovenamaste.com/offerings/yoga-healthy-aging-baxter-bell-melina-meza/ or by calling Namaste Berkeley directly at 510-665-4300. Any questions are this intensive should be directed to Baxter Bell at baxterbell@mac.com. 

The course will provide instructions on maintaining your physical, mental, and emotional health as you age. The main focus of the course is on preventative strategies, covering:

• Strength
• Flexibility
• Agility
• Balance
• Stress Management
• Circulatory System/Heart Health
• Brain Health
• Medical Conditions (in general)
• Equanimity

Baxter and Melina will present the scientific background that explains how and why yoga works to foster healthy aging, so you’ll understand which techniques to use when. They will also teach you the essential yoga poses, yoga sequences, and other practices that will set you up for a lifetime of practice.

This intensive is designed for relatively healthy, relatively physically able participants. Not included in workshop: 1) Instructions for seniors who cannot stand unaided and need to practice in chairs and 2) Information about yoga as therapy for specific medical conditions.

For certified yoga teachers, this course will provide supplemental, specialized training in yoga for healthy aging techniques, which you can then teach to your own students. For yoga students with one or more years of experience, this course will provide you with the tools to create a personalized yoga program that meets your particular needs and concerns.

For teachers who want YHFA Certification, you will need to:

1. Attend an extra session on January 14 (1:00-5:00pm), where you’ll do a short teaching demonstration.
2. Pass the take-home final that Baxter provides. 
3. Provide a copy of your basic yoga teacher certificate (or resume reflecting equivalent experience)  

PRICING: 

Training: $800| $725 early bird
Training + Certification**: $950| $875 early bird
Early bird pricing available until September 31, 2016.

*This training is subject to a $75 non-refundable processing fee. No refunds after December 15, 2016. Pre-registration required. This course WILL SELL OUT so register early to secure your space.

**Certification will require a take-home final to be completed after the training, attendance at an additional afternoon, and an additional fee as listed in pricing options.

Baxter Bell, MD, eRYT500 is co-founder of and regular contributor to the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog, where he shares his knowledge of medical conditions, anatomy, and yoga with practitioners and teachers across the world. In addition to teaching classes, workshops, teacher trainings, and retreats internationally, Baxter is a presenter at Yoga Journal Conferences and the International Association of Yoga Therapy’s Sytar Conference, and teaches online courses at Yoga U Online.  

Melina Meza, eRYT500, BS Nutrition, is a certified YFHA teacher and Ayurvedic health educator, who has been sharing her knowledge of yoga for over 20 years . Since 1997, Melina has been teaching at 8 Limbs Yoga Center in Seattle, where she is co-director of their teacher training program. Meza is the author of the Art of Sequencing books and contributing photographer for YFHA Blog. Currently residing in Oakland California, Melina facilitates year-round yoga workshops and retreats.

NOTE FROM NINA: I have decided to step down permanently from co-teaching with Baxter. So from now on, all the Yoga for Healthy intensives and teacher trainings will be conducted without my participation. Baxter will be solely in charge of these from this day on. All questions regarding the upcoming winter 2017 intensive and any future YFHA intensives and trainings should be directed to Baxter at baxterbell@mac.com and not to me. I’m sorry that I’ll miss meeting many of you in person! That was a great joy to me. But I’ll still be continuing as Editor-in-Chief of the blog so you can always find me here, and we can at least continue to meet in the “virtual” world. And although I have no specific plans for teaching workshops right now, I’m not ruling out the possibility of teaching shorter, more focused workshops on my own sometime in the future. But first, there’s a book to finish! —Nina

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