Here you’ll find posts about health, wellness, exercise, beauty, travel, fashion, yoga, hiking, work, money, beauty and haircare, decorating your house, celebrating holidays … all that stuff.
Will tea break a fast? And how I maintained my weight all these years … drinking tea All this noise about intermittent fasting has brought forth the question of what, exactly is fasting? In a world of so-called “cheat days,” are there cheat foods for fasting diets? First: Will Tea Break Your Fast? First of
Bikram Yoga changed lives and revolutionized studio practices. Without doubt there was misconduct. Yet many yogis feel they owe him a debt for his hot yoga practice, even as they question his methods. Heard today in the studio: “Who was Bikram? Isn’t he sort of controversial?” This post will attempt to briefly answer questions about
Martha Stewart No More? Hello America I have bad news to tell you. Which could actually be good news. In the last thirty years, you’ve been sold a bill of goods about cooking. Cooking is not a game or a recreational activity. Vanity cooking has obscured a human truth. Which is that cooking is work.
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
When I found myself in an emotional tailspin, I returned to something that had helped me before: yoga. After four classes in one week, I felt significantly better. Then I went looking at the research to find out whether there was evidence behind what I was experiencing.
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
