Yoga, how do I love you? Let me count the ways.
Lucky seven ways and I could write more, too, but let’s just say that yoga means the world to me.
What is the plank exercise challenge and what could plank pose do for you? Plank pose helps you have a flat stomach, lose weight and walk gracefully. This week during conference night those of us who don’t do conferences came up with the idea of plank exercise challenge. I was with the specials team (that […]
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“How many minutes of pilates a day” and “is 20 minutes of pilates a day enough” are great questions for those of us who want to be fit. Because exercising is probably number one in my plan for having good health. Now I have to admit … I’ve only done Pilates once. It was offered
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“Who was Bikram?” is a question that new yogis often ask at the studio. “Isn’t he sort of controversial?” This post will attempt to briefly answer these questions about Bikram yoga history. Bikram Choudhury is the founder of the hot yoga lineage (also known colloquially as “the 26”, for the 26 poses and breathing exercises
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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.”
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There are some studios that have rules, such as “instructors only in the first row …
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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
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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
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