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by Baxter Since I last wrote on subject of yoga and your digestive system (see Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Yoga ), I completed two live one-hour lectures on the topic for YogaU Online, which are now archived and available on their website if you had hoped to join me live but could not. See yogauonline.com to access these lecture. And, in addition to the information-packed talks, I completed a one-hour video practice on Yoga for Healthy Digestion in August! It is part of the package you get if you purchase the sessions from YogaU, and it is the first significant video practice I�ve produced in a long time, so I am pretty pleased to have it to share with you! To give you a sense of how I came up with the practices on the video, I wanted to share a bit about how yoga is applied to imbalances in the digestive system. As I discuss in my talks on yoga and the digestive system, when you have an imbalance in your digestive system, it can often be classified in one of two ways: either a condi...

by Baxter Fresh Bread and Fresh Butter made and photographed by Rosie Gibson It is always a bit bittersweet for me come mid-July when I return from my annual yoga retreat at the Feathered Pipe Ranch  in Helena, Montana. It is a magical place for my students, and me, and most of our every-day needs are met by the staff at the Ranch, freeing us up to dive deep into the yoga and community.  At this year�s retreat, I focused on many of the concepts we talk about here at Yoga For Healthy Aging, including therapeutic sessions on topics ranging from arthritis to digestion. One of the lovely things about going on these sorts of retreats is that all of your meals are prepared for you, and all you have to do is show up for meal times. The Ranch is no different, and they pride themselves of the variety of healthy, mostly organic foods that they prepare for us each year, from Indian to Thai to Mexican, to the �Toledo Lunch� (a throwback to my childhood favorite, grilled cheese sandwiches...

by Nina In his recent post Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Yoga , Baxter mentioned that he�s going to giving a two-part online course on Yoga for Digestive Health via Yoga U. It�s coming up soon, everyone! And it�s going to be good. (I know because�ssshh!�I�m helping with the presentation.) Here�s the course description: Learn about the digestive system and how you can use yoga to improve digestive health. In this 2-part online yoga course, Baxter Bell, MD offers an overview of the organs of digestion, their basic functions and how you can use yoga to impact digestive health, from his experience as a western trained doctor and a certified yoga instructor. Dr. Bell will discuss the common digestive disorders and the early signs of digestive disturbances. To take this online course, you�ll need to register (and pay) here . But Baxter has also done a special interview on digestion for Yoga U interview and this is completely free. Here�s a description of the interview: In it, Dr. Bel...