Amy speaks with Dr. Baxter Bell. Since transitioning from a stressful career as a busy family doctor to that of a yoga teacher and medical acupuncturist. He graduated from the Piedmont Yoga Studio's 18-month Advanced Studies Program and spent many years as the Director of PYS's Deep Yoga Program, where he taught Experiential Anatomy, Yoga Technique, and Yoga Methodology. Baxter is a co-founder and former contributing writer for the blog Yoga for Healthy Aging, as well as a member of the faculty at several Yoga Teacher Training and Yoga Therapy Training programs across the country.

Amy and Baxter discuss Yoga for Healthy Aging and a Life Well-Lived, Baxter's career change, his book Yoga for Healthy Aging and how it came to be, and much more.

Here are some highlights of their conversation: 

• Taking the risk of transitioning from family physician to becoming a yoga teacher and therapist and how he has created his “best life.”
• How he turned his blog into a book about healthy aging and yoga
• Curiosity about the future and the 3rd act of life for all of us
• The future of both allopathic medicine and integrative medicine with respect to yoga therapy
• Yoga therapy as a cost-effective method of building well-being
• The importance of Joy to Thrive in the later stages of life
• Moving beyond resilience to Thrivancy in the later stages of life
• Service, Love, and Joy as the three pillars of a life well-lived life 

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