While yoga is well known for its benefits for relaxation and stretching, it’s not as widely adopted as a weight-loss activity. But yoga can be extremely beneficial for weight loss and management if it’s approached the right way. How should you practice yoga if weight loss is your goal? Practice Often. For a variety reasons, [...]
Do you belie that children are also capable of being stressed and feeling stress? In this busy, fast-paced life, do you see how it’s possible that kids pick up on the pressure that our speed of light lifestyles facilitates? Kids experience a lot of pressure from the demands of their schoolwork to overexposure to social [...]
Stress . . . we all have it, we all deal with it, and we would all like to eliminate it from our lives. Sometimes it creeps in very slowly throughout our days. Other times, it swoops in like a thundercloud. But, regardless of how it overtakes us, it cuts into our mental, emotional, physical, [...]
Over the course of the past year, you may have found yourself leaning toward including some kind of exercise or physical fitness regimen into your lifestyle. And, if you’re like a lot of people, you kept the thought and desire alive, but just couldn’t find a way to plug it into your schedule. Or maybe [...]
Just about everybody enters the new year with some kind of goal. Stated loudly or privately considered, New Year resolutions are probably the most commonly shared commitments people make (and then break). Now keeping them., or even starting them., is quite a different story. Some people take off running right out of the gate . [...]
Yoga . . . just about everybody has an idea of what it is. And many people even have impressions that might not be exactly accurate or well informed. In fact, an initial opinion that may have been formed in a moment ten years ago could actually still be the opinion a person holds of [...]
Every day there are reports and news stories about the benefits and value of staying active in your senior years. In fact, there has been so much research and reports on the benefits physical activity offer to senior that it’s impossible to deny that staying active is key to the quality of seniors’ lives. But [...]
Sciatica. It’s a well-known word. Just about everyone experiences – or knows someone who experiences – what’ commonly referred to as “sciatica pain”. And, usually, it’s just referred to as sciatica. What is sciatica? The term itself coves a lot of ground. Sciatica is a nerve; it’s the largest and longest nerve. Starting at the [...]
Go Easy in Your Autumn Yoga Practice - Yoga for Fall The summer has a common effect on many of us. It is basically a long holiday season that stuck with us ever since we were kids. Many of us, at least those of us lucky enough to be able to afford it, go on [...]
As you’re reading an email and – as its signature (instead of Sincerely, for example) the person seeing you the message writes “I bow to you”, what would you think? Would you respond? If so, how? Basically, each time someone says (or types in the above example) the word “Namaste”, they are saying those exact [...]
