Baxter Bell Yoga

What a Difference a Year Makes!!! Starts Today, 3pm PST- And there is no excuse for you not to find out how! Topics: Yoga and Covid19; Take the Weight Off Your Shoulders and Neck; Rethinking Stress; Yoga for Addressing Loneliness Can't make all sessions: No Problem-you will have access to archived videos for 2 weeks Register Here: https://sunandmoonstudio.cowtinker.com//yoga-for-healthy-a... Photo: Melina Meza's Photo Calendar, March 2021 See more

Don't be a Turkey! Keep your home Yoga practice going through these last days of Winter (only 2 more to go!). 2 opportunities to practice with me TODAY: 11am-12pm, PST, Yoga for Healthy Aging, via Nest Yoga, save $ first time with code BAXTER2020: https://www.nest-yoga.com/livestream 2:30-3:30pm, PST, Yoga for Back Health: https://www.baxterbell.com/yoga-for-back-health-online-clas Photo: Turkey Plumage, Sonoma Coast, CA, March 2021

What a Difference a Year Makes! If you want to learn how much, join me this weekend for my Live Streaming workshop of the same name, hosted by my friends at Sun... & Moon Yoga in Arlington, VA! Friday, March 19th-Sunday, March 21st, 2021 Get all the details here: https://sunandmoonstudio.cowtinker.com//yoga-for-healthy-a See more

What a Difference a Year Makes! 365+ days and 4 seasons have come and gone since SIP, and we are still standing! Many have shared how the regular online yoga practices have helped- so keep it up! One class TODAY and a Special Workshop THIS WEEKEND! 11:30am-12:45pm PST, Hatha 1-3, via Mountain Yoga, where your first class is FREE!: https://www.m-yoga.org/livestream.html THIS Friday-Sunday: Yoga for Healthy Aging-What a Difference a Year Makes, hosted by Sun&Moon Studio: https://sunandmoonstudio.cowtinker.com//yoga-for-healthy-a Photo: Late Winter Daffodils, Ratna Ling Retreat, CA, March 2021

Poem of the Week: For all of our pets! Fetch Who knew that the sweetest pleasure of my fifty-eighth year would turn out to be my friendship with the dog?... That his trembling, bowlegged bliss at seeing me stand there with the leash would give me a feeling I had sought throughout my life? Now I understand those old ladies walking their Chihuahuas in the dusk, plastic bag wrapped around one hand, content with a companionship that, whatever else you think of it, is totally reliable. And in the evening, at cocktail hour, I think tenderly of them in all of those apartments on the fourteenth floor holding out a little hotdog on a toothpick to bestow a luxury on a friend who knows more about uncomplicated pleasure than any famous lobbyist for the mortal condition. These barricades and bulwarks against human loneliness, they used to fill me with disdain, but that was before I found out my metaphysical needs could be so easily met by the wet gaze of a brown-and-white retriever with a slight infection of the outer ear and a tail like a windshield wiper. I did not guess that love would be returned to me as simply as a stick returned when it was thrown again and again and again in fact, I still don’t exactly comprehend. What could that possibly have to teach me about being human? Fetch by Tony Hoagland from Application for Release from the Dream. Graywolf Press, 2015.

Poem of the Week: My yoga pose sequence for the theme of the "spine" this week and the Crescent Moon Pose showing up in a few different ways, and in looking for my poem of the week, I found this: Crescent Moon Pose By Tzivia Gover... This skin holds a universe within Worlds of star-pocked blackness, Darkness deeper than eternal oceans. Between my bones, symphonies sing, Planets sigh out majestic melodies. Every vein in me- a Rio Grande all its own. My lungs, each one a rain forest, And in my rib cage, The panting breath of creation, The desire to live longer than time, To know the secret Wrapped in every star. From the collection The Poetry of Yoga Photo: Crescent Moon Pose, 2015

Feeling So Fine on Day 9 of the February Yoga Challenge: keep your yoga groove going today with a Baxter Bell Yoga class and some time outside finding the winter beauty where you live! 11am-12pm, PST, Yoga for Healthy Aging, via Nest Yoga, save $ first time with code BAXTER2020: https://www.nest-yoga.com/livestream 5:30-6:30pm, PST, Yoga for Back Health: https://www.baxterbell.com/yoga-for-back-health-online-clas Photo: Winter Flowers, Oakland, Feb. 2021

Chris Roberts posted this yesterday: "Still time to sign up for our PYC benefit yoga class with renowned teacher Baxter Bell on Wednesday Feb 10 at 5pm. We really need your support to keep our classes to those with disabilities and special needs going. If you can't make the class, maybe you could donate to our cause??" How about this IDEA: sign up and pay as if you were going to come and support a great cause! If you make it, it's like icing on the cake of your good deed!

Day 8 of the February Yoga Challenge...this is the week that can feel like sludge! So, in addition to your formal yoga practice, I challenge you to find something of beauty to appreciate in your neighborhood, even in the grips of winter. 2 class options TODAY: 1:30am-12:45pm, PST, Hatha 1-3, via Mountain Yoga, where your first class is FREE!: https://www.m-yoga.org/livestream.html 5-6pm, PST, Hatha class via Nest Yoga, use code BAXTER2020 for 10% off first purchase: https://www.nest-yoga.com/livestream Photo: Magnolias in Bloom! Oakland, Feb 2021

Day 7 of the February Yoga Challenge...1/4 of the way through! How consistent have you been so far? Need to recommit to the next 21 days? How about dropping into a deeper exploration of Yoga today? If you missed my workshop this past Wednesday, today is your chance to experience it at your own pace! You can purchase a 24-hour rental for $25 for this 2 hour event.

YOGA VIDEO OF THE WEEK: Tired of your old Warrior 1? Then try this new Warrior 1 Pose with Triceps Stretch: This variation of Warrior 1 Pose places the arms in a position to not only stretch the Tricep muscle in the arm, but also access the myofascial plane that runs from the elbow all the way to the foot. Those with shoulder issues should watch the video before deciding if it is appropriate for them to try.

There is a lot to Fiddle about at the start of 2021! Being able to still practice yoga from home is one of those things. One weekly and one special class to share with you today: 11:30am-12:45pm PST, Hatha 1-3 Class, via Mtn Yoga, and this month, your FIRST WEEK FREE!!! https://www.m-yoga.org/livestream.html SAT, 9-10am PST, Yoga for Healthy Fiddling (or any instrument!), brought to you by Fiddleschool.com: https://fiddleschool.com/product/yoga-for-healthy-fiddling/

Poem of the Week: Happy New Year, all! And here is a blessing for all of us: A Blessing for the New Year By John O’Donohue... Beannacht (the Bard’s blessing) For Josie. On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The gray window And the ghost of loss Gets into you, May a flock of colors, Indigo, red, green And azure blue, Come to awaken in you A meadow of delight. When the canvas frays In the curragh of thought And a stain of ocean Blackens beneath you, May there come across the waters A path of yellow moonlight To bring you safely home. May the nourishment of the earth be yours, May the clarity of light be yours, May the fluency of the ocean be yours, May the protection of the ancestors be yours. And so may a slow Wind work these words Of love around you, An invisible cloak To mind your life. Photo: New Year's Day Sky, Limantour Beach, CA 2021

At the Dawning of a New Day and New Year, are you ready to start or stay the path of Well-Being? 2 Opportunities to do just that TODAY! Live-Streaming Yoga: 11am-12pm, PST, Yoga for Healthy Aging, via Nest Yoga, save $ first time with code BAXTER2020: https://www.nest-yoga.com/livestream 5:30-6:30pm, PST, Yoga for Back Health: https://www.baxterbell.com/yoga-for-back-health-online-clas Photo: January Sky, New Years Day, Limantour Beach, CA 2021

Ready to get back into action? Need to balance out some of the laziness of the Winter Holidays? Join me for a full week of online Live-Streaming Yoga classes, starting TODAY! 11:30am-12:45pm, PST, Hatha 1-3, via Mountain Yoga, where your first class is FREE!: https://www.m-yoga.org/livestream.html 5-6pm, PST, Hatha class via Nest Yoga, use code BAXTER2020 for 10% off first purchase: https://www.nest-yoga.com/livestream Photo: Elephant Seal, Limantour Beach, CA, Jan. 2021