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I was minding my own business reading a surf blog when suddenly the author interjected negative sentiments about yoga, “a holistic discipline that combines physical postures and ethical principles to promote physical and spiritual well-being. It does very few of these things in my experience except breed a superior minded person with stretched out tendons.” […]
There are some studios that have rules, such as “instructors only in the first row …
Visiting Dinosaur National Monument was worth doing: the petroglyphs, secret canyons, the desert itself drew me. I admit I was scared…for one thing I hadn’t camped in years and years. But there was more. This was the first such trip in a long time where I would be in charge. The family had visited before,
Have I ever mentioned that I am perhaps a bit stubborn and a bit slow to change directions? There’s an axiom from the world of commodities and stocks: Your first loss is your best loss. Which is another way of saying “don’t throw good money after bad.” That came up while hiking in the rain
What is it? The hiking trails at Arapaho Bend rate as “pretty amazing, considering where they’re located,” to me. Arapaho Bend is one of Fort Collins many Natural Areas. The trail loop network runs a total distance of 4 miles. These trails loop around ponds created from abandoned gravel pits. Hikers, boaters, horsemen and runners
Can you treat depression with yoga classes? The research says it works. I went and tried 4 days a week of yoga and felt … so much better. Last week I announced that instead of going to counseling I was going to go to yoga to try to treat depression. I came to this
I have decided to return to yoga with a renewed commitment. And the reason I have returned is because I have been too … well subject to too much depression. I tried to address it by going back on Buproprion, an anti-depressant prescribed me 18 months ago and which I stopped taking a few months
Now it is Friday and the meetup hiking cabin trip is in the past. The wooden cabin covered with snow, the kitchen with pans and gadgets and dull knives and a big table in the middle with benches like in a lumber camp that sits eight, it’s history. How did it go, my friends asked
I’ve got fear of being alone. But it’s not like the fear of being alone I had when I was a young woman, when I worried someone was going to break into the house and kill me. It’s more like a social fear. This is what I mean. I don’t like seeing myself as a
First of all some brief details on traveling Trail Ridge Road: What: A 48-mile long route along the tops of the Rocky Mountains, crossing the Continental Divide, and allowing serene and amazing views of the tundra ecosystem, the mountain sky, and snowy cirques. (Cirques are those bowls near the mountain peaks that catch snow and
