Health & Fitness
Yoga: Beyond the Physical
“The meaning of Yoga is union. To tie the strands of the mind together.”— Desikachar
Taking the time on your mat to understand how your mind works and acknowledge your thought patterns (samskara’s) is the first step to cultivating positive change in your life. For example, we can best examine our thought patterns when put into situations like being in a crowded room of strangers or doing a series of sometimes awkward yoga poses (asana’s).
Make Eating Healthy Your Child’s New Year’s Resolution!
Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) wants families to have a healthy start this year, so when making your New Year’s resolutions, why not start with helping your kids to eat healthier in 2008?
Tips to get the New Year Started Right
This is it, 2008 is your year! It’s your year to get in the best shape of your life, your year to make time for yourself and your year to feel good about yourself! Do not put it off for another day, another week, another month or another year! Take action today!
Menopause Related Mood and Memory Problems
Are you feeling withdrawn, finding yourself caring less about things that used to matter? Are you experiencing mood swings, feeling less confident and maybe even depressed? Do you find it difficult to find the right word when speaking or writing or having trouble remembering names or events?
Sophisticated Exercise, Superior Results
Vanessa Williams does it and so do the Oakland Raiders. Tiger Woods does it and so does Oprah. Andre Ward (Olympic Gold Medalist in Boxing, 2004) does it and so does Heather Locklear. Professional dancers have been doing it for decades and now most professional athletes do it. Just recently this unique exercise form has returned to the field of rehabilitation where it started almost 100 years ago in 1914. It’s Pilates—a versatile exercise form for improved muscle tone, strength, flexibility, precision, coordination, alignment and posture. There is no such thing as one size fits all in Pilates, where the exercises and level of difficulty match your needs perfectly.
Jeet Kune Do Why Bruce Lee’s Philosophy Works for Adult Fitness
It’s that time for resolutions. How many times have you joined a gym or jumped on the bandwagon for the newest fitness craze, only to realize six weeks later your motivation has fizzled out again?
Hypnosis and Therapy Versus Medication
Pharmaceutical companies spend billons of dollars convincing people to use medication rather than learning how to treat their problems. Even though medication is sometimes beneficial, or necessary, mental health professionals are often too quick to medicate without exploring other options that might be even more helpful. Here are some of the arguments that mental health professional have for therapy over medication:
Exercise on the Brain
Feeling a little less mentally quick than you did a few years ago? Maybe you are among the many people who do “brain exercises” to slow the cognitive decline associated with aging. Here’s a better suggestion. Having mentally challenging hobbies, like learning a new language or playing bridge, can help maintain cognitive performance. But the belief that any single brain exercise program late in life can act as a quick fix for general mental function is almost entirely faith-based.
What Shoe is Right For Me?
Leading footwear vendors each year improve their footwear on the basis of the needs of customers and extensive research, which makes buying footwear difficult to find that caters to each individual’s particular needs. Sometimes walking into a footwear store is overwhelming to a customer.
Make 2008 Your Year!
Every year, we all make the same New Year’s Resolution: This year, I’m going to lose weight. However, in most cases, this resolution is short-lived and fades fast. What can you do to make 2008 different from previous years? Create more specific goals and write them down. It’s really that simple. Here are some tips on creating a fail proof New Year’s Plan.
Diets Don’t Work Because They are Designed to End
Ever wonder why after three months of restricting yourself of all your favorite foods you lose weight only to gain it all back? What about diets that eliminate your carbohydrates? Good luck with your energy level!
Program Success in 2008!
Science has shown that the more energy you put behind a desire, the more likely it will happen. An important job of your subconscious mind is to “act out” any idea or image that you allow yourself to have. Since logic doesn’t exist in the subconscious mind, it does not distinguish between what is real and what is imagined to be real.
Back on Track â Yoga Makes me Healthier
Yup, I knew it was time to get back on the right track. After indulging in delicacies over the holidays, I stepped on the scale and ouch! How could this be?! I teach 12 Hot Yoga classes a week along with several Special needs classes. But I took several deep breaths and began to reflect on what happened.
The Dynamic Duo Fitness Boot Camp
Already sought out as Personal Trainers, Annette Allen and Jodi Stokes joined forces from two competing gyms to form a fitness fusion. They have organized a Fitness Boot Camp at the Paseo Club, which brings a 90 percent return rate after three years, and has per testimonials, “changed lives!”
Creating Intentions of Community for 2008
Looking back on 2007, I can honestly say it was one of the greatest years of my adult life. After years of planning and preparation, my dream of opening a yoga studio finally came into fruition. I opened Just Breathe Yoga Center with the intention to create community.
Traditional Martial Arts are Making a Comeback
A new traditional Kung Fu school is now open in Valencia. This is the 3rd new school under Grandmaster Don Baird’s Peaceful Mind Kung Fu Association to open in the past five years. The other schools in Palmdale and Tarzana were packed with eager students within weeks of opening.
Food Journaling: It’ll Blow Your Mind & Shrink Your Waistline!
I’ve guided thousands of resistant clients along the road to weight loss success for over fifteen years. I say resistant because when I first say I want their food journals turned in every week — they cringe. Most think they don’t have the time or don’t want to face what might be coming up on paper. We are resistant creatures. We would rather stay stuck in our comfort zones than face change — even though the change is so much better for us in the long run. It’s crazy, right?
A Healthy New You In 2008
Every year millions of people make New Year resolutions to take active steps in becoming healthier individuals. However, overall wellness and disease prevention require not only a healthy diet and an active lifestyle, but also an added nutritional boost. What if I told you that added nutritional boost could come from chocolate? I would like to introduce you to Xocai Healthy Dark Chocolate. Xocai is delicious Belgian Chocolate, which is made from a combination of the world’s two greatest super foods – raw cacao and the acai berry. Both raw cacao and the acai berry from the Amazon are powerful antioxidants.
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