Yoga for Healthy Aging Intensive Coming to Kripalu Center, Massachusetts This Spring!

by Baxter

For all of our Yoga for Healthy Aging followers on the East Coast of the U.S., thanks for your patience! We are very excited to announce that at long last our next intensive, which will be taught by Baxter Bell and Melina Meza, will be held on the East Coast, at the Kripalu Center near Lennox, Massachusetts, April 15th-22nd, 2018. This is our second residential retreat and will be a wonderful way to immerse yourself in the content of our training while having all your other needs taken care of in a lovely retreat setting. Like all our other intensives, this one is designed both for yoga practitioners who are interested in learning more about the Yoga for Healthy Aging tools and philosophy and incorporating them into their healthy lifestyles and for yoga teachers who want additional certification as Yoga for Healthy Aging teachers. 

Residential retreats are special. Here is what our first group had to say about what they got out of our first residential retreat:

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 and Heart Health 
• Brain Health 
• 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 who have one or more years of yoga experience. 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 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 all the sessions during the intensive.

2. Attend the extra session at the end of the intensive, where you’ll do a short teaching demonstration.

3. Pass the take-home, open-book final that Baxter and Melina provide using the book Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being.

4. Provide a copy of your basic yoga teacher certificate (minimum 200-hour training required) or resume reflecting equivalent experience. 

PRICING

Training: $775

Training Plus Certification: 
$925REGISTRATION

To register, go to https://kripalu.org/presenters-programs/yoga-healthy-aging-intensiveABOUT THE TEACHERS

Baxter Bell, MD, C-IAYT, eRYT500 is co-author with Nina Zolotow Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being and a 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 has been a presenter at Yoga Journal Conferences and the International Association of Yoga Therapy’s Sytar Conference, and teaches online courses at YogaUOnline.

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 Yoga for Healthy Aging blog. Currently residing in Oakland California, Melina facilitates year-round yoga workshops and retreats.

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