Happy Anniversary! Six Years of Yoga for Healthy Aging

by Nina

It is our six-year anniversary yesterday! Celebrate with us this year by listening again to "Float," one of my favorite songs by Flogging Molly (I love the video, too). I still think that the chorus for this song, “Ah but don't, don't sink the boat/That you built, you built to keep afloat,” works perfectly as a theme for this blog. That, and the ending to the song:
A ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
Just doing the best I can! 
We’ve had a very productive sixth year! We now have 1,460 published posts on the blog, covering a wide range of topics, including aging theories, asana practice and individual poses, pranayama and meditation, stress management, brain health, cardiovascular health,  medical conditions, ayurveda, yoga philosophy, and mindfulness. If you are interested in reading earlier posts, you should know there are three different ways you can search the blog for particular topics (or authors). See How to Search for details on how to do so in our new format.
We had changes in our staff, too. We added a new regular contributor, Jill Satterfield (see Jill Satterfied Joins Yoga for Healthy Aging for information about Jill). Love you, Jill! 
By the way, our blog is strictly non-profit, so this means that Jill as well as our ongoing staff (Baxter, Ram, Beth, and me, your Editor-in-Chief) are doing this work out of love. I’m so grateful to be working with such an extraordinary group of people! I'm also grateful for our many guest contributors this year who wrote some brilliant posts on challenging subjects such as anger, grief, and shame and other important topics. I learned so much from you, and was often moved to tears by hearing your personal stories.
We started our Yoga for Healthy Aging Teacher Certification program in 2015 and this year Baxter and Melina Meza continued to train and certify teachers. The next training will be in Chicago, IL at Prairie Yoga, October 23-28, 2017 (see mindbodyonline.com) and there will be a residential program April 15-22, 2018, at the Kripalu Center in Stockbridge, MA. For a list of the currently certified YFHA teachers throughout the USA and Canada, see Certified Teachers).
Finally, Baxter and I finished our book Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being. Many thanks to Dave O'Neal, Beth Frankl, and Breanna Locke of Shambhala Press! Here's the cover art:
The book will be released on December 12, 2017, but it is already available for pre-ordering, and you have three different options:

1. Shambhala at: shambhala.com/yoga-for-healthy-aging
2. Indie Bound at: indiebound.org/book/9781611803853
3. Amazon at: amazon.com/Yoga-Healthy-Aging-Lifelong-Well-Being/

Oh, yeah, there are also t-shirts now, literally by popular demand as we had no idea that anyone besides Baxter would want to wear the book cover art.
So when people started asking where they could buy a t-shirt like Baxter's, we scrambled and came up with a solution. Because we're a non-profit blog, we've arranged for you to get these at wholesale cost. It's available in blue (like the book cover) and black (because some of us need to wear black). To order one, go to stores.inksoft.com/yoga_for_healthy_aging.
I'll end by saying that as always we're grateful for and appreciate all our readers, and we love hearing from you. 
“Tomorrow smells of less decay
The flowers quick just bloom and fray
Be thankful, that's all you can” —Flogging Molly
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