Tuesdays, March 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2026 –
4 pm ET / 1 pm PT
Join Us Live or View the Recordings!
The foundation of healthy aging isn’t built in your muscles—it’s built in your spine.
You can have the strongest legs and the most dedicated exercise routine, but if your back hurts, none of it matters. Back problems are the #1 reason people over 50 stops exercising entirely. Studies show that by age 65, nearly 40% of adults have stopped participating in regular physical activity due to back pain or mobility limitations.
Without a healthy, mobile spine, the metabolic benefits of movement—the strength training, the daily activity, the physical resilience that protects your metabolism—become impossible to access.
Movement is life. Every breath you take, every step you walk, every reach and turn throughout your day depends on spinal health. But your spine does more than enable movement—it’s the central communication highway of your nervous system.
When vertebrae compress or shift out of alignment, the nerves exiting at each spinal level can become compressed. These nerves don’t just control movement; they innervate your organs. Chronic compression can interfere with digestive function, breathing capacity, and even the autonomic signals that regulate metabolic processes. Over time, restricted spinal mobility doesn’t just limit what you can do—it affects how well your body functions at a cellular level.
Here’s what most people don’t realize: spinal mobility is not a given as we age. The flexibility and ease of movement you had at 40 will not automatically be there at 60 unless you actively maintain it. Age-related changes—disc dehydration, loss of spinal extensors strength, accumulated postural habits—quietly erode the spine’s natural movement capacity. By the time pain appears, restrictions have often been building for years.
The good news? A consistent, intelligent yoga practice can restore and maintain spinal health at any age.
In this 4-week series, Dr. Baxter Bell—physician, yoga teacher, and author of Yoga for Healthy Aging—guides you through gentle, therapeutic practices specifically designed to:
- Restore multi-directional spinal mobility (flexion, extension, rotation, lateral bending)
- Strengthen the deep spinal stabilizers that protect your back during daily activities
- Decompress the spine to relieve nerve compression and support organ function
- Build body awareness so you can move safely and confidently in all areas of life
Each 75-minute session is a complete practice you can return to again and again. No extreme poses. No pushing through pain. Just intelligent, sustainable movement that honors where your body is today while building the foundation for lifelong mobility.
This series is for you if:
- You’ve experienced back pain or stiffness that limits your activity
- You want to prevent future back problems as you age
- You’re ready to build the movement foundation that makes everything else possible—strength training, hiking, gardening, playing with grandchildren
- You recognize that your spine is too important to neglect
Your metabolism depends on your ability to move. Your ability to move depends on your spine. Let’s take care of it.
Here’s What We’ll Cover
Session 1: The Bones (and the Discs) of the Matter: In session one, we will look at the underlying architecture of the spinal column and the spongy discs that make up the spine and house our spinal nerves. Learn how to restore multi-directional spinal mobility (flexion, extension, rotation, lateral bending) to improve your spinal range of motion and keep the vertebrae and intervertebral discs healthy.
Session 2: The Fascia Connection: This session will delve into the connective tissues and the small, deep muscles that connect the vertebrae, stabilize the spine and contribute to movement. Learn how to strengthen the deep spinal stabilizers while improving the resilience and suppleness of the spinal connective tissue.
Session 3: Decompress the Spine and Improve Your Posture: In this session, learn how yoga can help relieve nerve compression and support organ function. We will explore ways your yoga can work with and against the effects of gravity to help maintain healthy posture and take the load off the lower vertebrae where back stiffness and achiness often reside.
Session 4: Your Spine in Everyday Life: The final session will bring it all together and also address yoga’s capacity to build body awareness, allowing you to move safely and with confidence through your daily life.
Join Us Live or View the Recordings!
Tuesdays, March 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2026
4 pm ET / 1 pm PT
