Yoga Journal: Yoga For Stress with Dr. Baxter Bell

Two yoga workouts — one to prevent future stress, the other to relieve current stress. Led by a medical physician, Dr. Baxter Bell, you get unpretentious instruction and a variety of classic yoga poses. The stress prevention program is designed to help you understand how your body carries stress (“be aware of how you hold your head”).

With that knowledge, you can adjust your everyday actions and postures to remove the underlying causes. The stress relief workout is more of a “right now fix.” It's designed to reduce the mental and physical tension you're currently experiencing. Includes three, eight-minute bonus segments — relaxation, breathing and guided meditation.

Yoga Journal teams with Dr. Baxter Bell to bring you this unique, medically grounded program to help you become “stress hardy.” In this DVD, you’ll learn to recognize and modify your body’s fight-or-flight response to stress. You’ll also discover how yoga can relieve stress-related problems like muscular tension, headaches, insomnia, depression, and panic attacks.

This easy-to-follow program features: (1) A stress prevention workout to help you develop stress hardiness for 35 minutes. (2) A stress relief practice to calm you down and release tension for 35 minutes (3) Three quick relation techniques.(4) An in-depth interview with Dr. Bell about the physiology of stress. (5) An alternate practice mode that allows you to practice with less verbal instruction once you’ve learned the yoga sequences. (6) A built-in timer that lets you practice at your own pace

Baxter Bell, M.D., is a California-based physician, yoga teacher, and medical acupuncturist with more than 15 years of family medical practice. He teaches, writes, and lectures internationally on stress management. His message: “Yoga is so effective in dealing with stress because it addresses the underlying causes, not just the symptoms.”