Baxter Bell

BAXTER BELL, MD, has been combining his interests in medicine, yoga, acupuncture, healing, and healthy aging for many years. He teaches yoga in the US and internationally and runs teacher training programs. He is past director of the Deep Yoga Training at Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, CA, and serves as adjunct faculty on teacher training programs and therapeutic yoga trainings around the country. Baxter also combines his experience as a family physician with training in medical acupuncture, maintaining a complementary medical practice, where he focuses on acupuncture and therapeutic yoga.

Nina Zolotow

NINA ZOLOTOW is a certified yoga teacher as well as a longtime yoga writer. She teaches workshops and series classes on yoga for emotional well-being, stress, better sleep, cultivating equanimity, and healthy aging. Zolotow is the editor-in-chief of the Yoga for Healthy Aging Blog and is the coauthor of Yoga for Healthy Aging (with Baxter Bell) and Yoga and Moving toward Balance (both with Rodney Yee).

"We might imagine from the title that this is a book only for the seniors among us. But in fact, the practices and supporting material will benefit both young and old alike. It will help the former establish a solid foundation for their future well-being and teach the latter how to maintain that well-being long into their ‘golden’ years." —Richard Rosen, author of Yoga FAQ

"In Yoga for Healthy Aging, Baxter Bell and Nina Zolotow share a wealth of information on using yoga safely to age with greater flexibility, strength, balance, and grace, both physically and psychologically. This beautifully illustrated, user-friendly book—with four variations of every pose suggested to accommodate differing abilities will be a boon to yoga practitioners (and would-be practitioners) as well as those who teach them." —Timothy McCall, MD, best-selling author of Yoga As Medicine, coeditor of The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care and Yoga Journal's medical editor since 2002, and teaches yoga therapy seminars worldwide (see DrMcCall.com)

"All the yoga in the world will not stop us from getting older, but it can help us approach the journey with more grace, agility, and assuredness. Baxter Bell and Nina Zolotow show us how in Yoga for Healthy Aging. Conversational style and gentle humor make their comprehensive medical knowledge and yoga teaching wisdom easily accessible to everyone—from beginning students to advanced teachers. And I love that they’ve given us concrete ways of celebrating who we are—instead of dreading what we fear we’ll become—with each passing decade. A true gift for all ages." —Linda Sparrowe, author of The Woman’s Book of Yoga & Health and Yoga at Home

"Thank you, Baxter and Nina, for creating this important yoga gem, which both allows us to refine our practice to be a boon to our health as we age and to create a sharper lens through which to know ourselves." —Rodney Yee, author of Moving Toward Balance