Lose it & Keep it Off With Yoga

Excess weight gain stems from a combination of mental, physical, and even spiritual imbalances. Though we try to increase metabolism at the gym and decrease fat production with the newest diet fad, without a balanced approach and tool to unify these elements, long term balanced weight loss becomes merely a mirage. MORE

Hatha yoga, or physical postures, and pranayama, or breath techniques, can be useful tools in your efforts to re-establish a restful night’s sleep.  Hatha yoga is so promising,

in fact, that the NIH-National Institutes for Health’s NCAAM division (which is devoted to invest-igating alternative approaches to health care) is in the midst of an ongoing study looking at yoga’s effect on insomnia.   More

Couples'
Partner Yoga
Workout

Partner yoga – in which two people work together in various yoga postures- is not a new concept, but has been a growing trend in the past several years with the yoga explosion in the US More

Quell back problems

Considering that back problems are the leading cause of physical disability in our industrialized world, anybody who has back concerns, ranging from a 70-year old grandmother to the 14-year old soccer player can benefit from these series of exercises to help strengthen the back.

Baxter teaches public classes and well as specialty Back Care yoga classes in Northern California, leads yoga retreats in Northern California. He has taught yoga throughout the US and in Cuba and is   a contributing writer for Yoga Journal Magazine and the International Journal of Yoga Therapy.  He appears on the recently released Yoga Journal DVD "Yoga for Back Care" with Rodney Yee.