Nina Zolotow, RYT500, MFA, is Editor in Chief of the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog as well as a contributing writer, and is the author of the book Yoga for Times of Change. She is a long-time yoga writer as well as a long-time yoga practitioner and a certified yoga teacher. Her special areas of expertise are yoga for emotional well-being (including yoga for stress, insomnia, depression, and anxiety) and yoga for healthy aging. She completed the three-year teacher training program at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, California, has studied yoga therapy with Shari Ser and Bonnie Maeda, and is especially influenced by the teachings of Donald Moyer. She has studied extensively with Rodney Yee, and is inspired by the teachings of Patricia Walden on yoga for emotional healing. She has taught workshops and series classes on yoga for emotional well-being, yoga for stress, yoga for better sleep, home practice, cultivating equanimity, and yoga for healthy aging. Nina is also the co-author with Baxter Bell of Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being and co-author with Rodney Yee of Yoga: The Poetry of the Body and Moving Toward Balance. WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT -Writing one-sentence stories  -Making yoga accessible for everyone -Exploring calming vs stimulating poses -Yoga as a tool to combat stress and anxiety -Why meditation isn’t always a good thing -How yoga poses have an emotional effect -Not using the word ‘negative’ to describe emotions -The idea of ‘pre-grief’ -Why humans resist change -The different degrees of anxiety -Ways to trigger the relaxation response Full notes available at thehuslers.com HOSTS Adam Husler (@adamhusler) & Holly Husler (@iamhollyhusler). Follow us @thehuslers PERKS 10% off Liforme yoga mats with affiliate code HUSLER 25% off our online platform with code THEHUSLERS25 (25% off single 12 month membership or reoccurring monthly membership until cancellation). Join at thehuslers.com