Baxter Bell, MD, has been actively deepening his understanding of yoga and relaxation since making the stress-reducing move from a career as a busy family doctor to that of a yoga teacher and medical acupuncturist. Baxter is featured in Yoga Journal's DVD, “Yoga for Stress,” and has written articles for Yoga Journal, Yoga for Everybody, and International Journal of Yoga Therapy.

He teaches a healing, nurturing style of Hatha yoga, balancing our desire for action with our need to quiet the mind, emphasizing the qualities of curiosity and meditation in the practice.

Baxter is a graduate of the Piedmont Yoga Studio’s 18-month Advanced Studies Program, under the directorship of Rodney Yee. He has also studied extensively with Patricia Walden, and Erich Schiffmann, and has recently been influenced strongly by the work of TKV Desikachar and Donald Moyer. He teaches public, corporate and specialty Back Care yoga classes in Oakland, Berkeley, and Novato, California, as well as workshops and retreats around the country and internationally. Baxter is the co-director of Piedmont Yoga Studio's Advanced Studies Program, and is also on faculty for several other Teacher Training programs in the Bay area and around the country. His students tell him they appreciate the clarity and precision of his instruction, as well as the humor and enthusiasm that he brings to his teaching.

Baxter is also involved in the integration of therapeutic applications of yoga with Western medicine, lecturing to health care professionals around the country, as well as adding Hatha yoga asanas and pranayama to his care of patients in his medical acupuncture practice.