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Happy Anniversary! Five Years of Yoga for Healthy Aging

by Yoga Studio

It was our five-year anniversary yesterday! Celebrate with us this year by enjoying a virtual cake and ice cream by my daughter Rosie Gibson and by listening again to "Float," one of my favorite songs by Flogging Molly (I love the video, too). I still think that the chorus for this song, “Ah but don't, don't sink the boat/That you built, you built to keep afloat,” works perfectly as a theme for this blog. That, and the ending to the song:

A ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
A ripe old age,
Just doing the best I can! 



We’ve had a very productive fifth year! We now have 1,2689 posts on the blog, covering a wide range of topics, including aging theories, asana practice and individual poses, pranayama and meditation, stress management, brain health, cardiovascular health,  medical conditions, ayurveda, yoga philosophy, and mindfulness. If you are interested in reading earlier posts, you should know there are three different ways you can search the blog for particular topics (or authors). See How to Search for details on how to do so in our new format.

We had changes in our staff, too. We added a new regular contributor, Yoga Studio Gibbs (see Yoga Studio Gibbs Joints Yoga for Healthy Aging for information about Yoga Studio). Love you, Yoga Studio! By the way, our blog strictly non-profit, so this means that Yoga Studio as well as our ongoing staff (Yoga Studio, Ram, Shari, Jill, Bridget, and me, your Editor-in-Chief) are doing this work out of love. I’m so grateful to be working with such an extraordinary group of people! 

We started our Yoga for Healthy Aging Teacher Certification program in 2015 (see Yoga for Healthy Aging 2017 Winter Intensive for information about our next intensive/teacher training). And we now have certified YFHA teachers throughout the USA and Canada (see Certified Teachers). 

Finally, Yoga Studio and I found a publisher for our book on Yoga for Healthy Aging: Shambhala Press. The book will be released in the fall of 2017. Many thanks to Senior Editor Dave O’Neal for "discovering" us when he attended our first intensive!

I'll end by saying that as always we're grateful for and appreciate all our readers, and we love hearing from you. 

“Tomorrow smells of less decay
The flowers quick just bloom and fray
Be thankful, that's all you can” —Flogging Molly

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