Happy Anniversary! Five Years of Yoga for Healthy Aging

by Nina

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, Beth Gibbs (see Beth Gibbs Joints Yoga for Healthy Aging for information about Beth). Love you, Beth! By the way, our blog strictly non-profit, so this means that Beth as well as our ongoing staff (Baxter, 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, Baxter 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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Happy Head Massage Is Expanding

By Mike Pritsker

The wait is almost over. The Happy Head of San Diego is excited to come to the downtown area. After being open for more than a year in Hillcrest and serving thousands of happy massage customers, the Happy Head is now expanding its locations to downtown and surrounding in the coming months. Customers are excited to have their affordable and wonderful massages offered in many more areas.

The Happy Head has been giving customers a unique massage in San Diego time and time again. Many people are enjoying the many benefits of foot massage, Swedish massage, Thai massage, deep tissue massage and more. Massage is great for reduced stress, relaxation, relief from headaches, reduced back and neck pain. For wonderful Asian style foot reflexology and Swedish full body massage therapy in San Diego, Happy Head Massage gives their customers a great massage without the spa prices.

They offer their customers the freedom to choose the service that they desire. They don't lock customers into long term memberships like some other massage places in California. They don't charge their customers every single month whether or not they receive a massage. They offer a superb price, every time, all the time. There are no hassles and no silly gimmicks. This great massage experience will soon also be available in the downtown area of San Diego off of Second and Market

The Happy Head has created a concept in massage therapy in San Diego that has people raving about. The Happy Head has made many people happy in San Diego. Soon they'll be open in downtown San Diego offering even more massages. The expected opening date is August 2012. As always, they'll be offering great massage services.

With the Happy Head, massage may never be the same with Happy Head's unique massage services. And don't let the fun name fool you. The Happy Head is beautiful and professional. The therapists are some of the best in the industry. And the prices are affordable for almost anyone to come on a regular basis and enjoy a healthy lifestyle.

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Happy News!

by Nina

In January we announced our fundraiser for YFHA contributor Jill Satterfield, who needed heart surgery to repair her mitral valve (see Fundraiser for Jill Satterfield). Today I thought I’d update you with the good news that Jill’s surgery was successful, and she will be going home today! She still needs quite a bit of time to fully recover from this serious operation, but we’re so happy to see her back on the road to health at long last.

So I just wanted to take a moment today to express my happiness at the good news of the day, and thank all of you who contributed to our fund at GiveForward. I’m so grateful to everyone who has made it possible for Jill to get the medical treatment she needed and to stay in her home during her recovery period.

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