Name: The Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga with Doug Keller (Online + In-person)
Start: 2026-01-29T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-29T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Asheville Yoga Center (Yoga Studio)

The Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga with Doug Keller (Online + In-person)

The focus for this year’s training concerns optimal aging: how yoga provides a toolset for addressing the challenges and obstacles that come with age.
This is not a ‘yoga for old people’ training, though it will be designed to be accessible and enlightening for older participants. Aging is a lifelong natural process, and it’s never too early to refine your practice for healthy aging, and never too late either!
We will be exploring a broad range of topics, from maintaining joint and muscle health against inflammatory conditions related to aging, to fascial fitness and its role in maintaining bone strength, to neuromuscular coordination and balance, cognitive and neurological health, digestion and a resilient immune system, and the very important role of breath practices, and how to optimize the value of accessible practices of pranayama.
We have a broad palate of practices to draw from, though asana is usually the most emphasized. With regard to asana, we’ll take a different perspective from the usual emphasis on flexibility, emphasizing fundamental principles of fascial fitness that will transform your perspective and approach to asana practice.
The fascia is central to the fundamental systems of the body which suffer inflammation with age, and yoga practices of asana as well as pranayama make use of our built-in anti-inflammatory mechanisms.
These mechanisms are not just part of our work with muscles, tendons, and connective tissue, but also of our work with the breath, which are accessed in particular ways in breath practices, improving cardiovascular health, circulation, and lung capacity and efficiency.
The ‘more’ is an added dimension that is all too often ignored in yoga is that of mudra and drishthi (the gaze or focus of the eyes). We will be exploring the dimension of mudra especially in connection with its usefulness in breath practices in special after-sessions, which follow after the main lecture topic each day.