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Source: http://www.sonima.com/yoga/yoga-to-wake-the-body/
I wake up my body in the morning the same way like to begin my yoga practice. The sequence is simple, spherical, and it opens up the spine, pelvis, shoulders, and neck. It’s easy to dial it up or down, which makes it versatile and something you can easily commit to every day. Let it feel natural and organic for your body and your context, so allow yourself to veer on and off the path in whatever way you need.
Spinal Circles
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Sit in a comfortable, cross-legged seat with your hands on your knees. Start to “stir the pot” using your hands for leverage and control. Make big or small circles moving from pubic bone, to sitz bone, to tailbone, to the other sitz bone. After a few moments circling in one direction, switch. Feel that you are massaging your organs and starting to unlock the sacral plate. Imagine your torso as a bowl and you mind becomes the big wooden spoon mixing everything up.
Arms Up Spinal Circles
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This is the second installment in a series of guided meditation videos designed to help you improve your focus and awareness as well as encourage you to be more present with the breath in your daily life. This particular breath meditation is meant for people who already have an existing practice. If you’re new to meditation, please start with this video, A Breath Meditation for Beginners, to learn the basics that will set you up to be present and calm. In this follow-up session led by Lodro Rinzler, a Shambhala Buddhist meditation teacher and chief spiritual officer of MNDFL (a drop-in meditation studio in New York City), you will be asked to keep your eyes open throughout the guided meditation. It may feel strange and counter-intuitive at first, especially if you generally meditate with closed eyes, but ultimately, it will inspire your body and mind to wake up to the present.
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May 28, 20167:26 AM ET
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Source: http://www.sonima.com/videos/hotel-room-workout/
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Eating out most, if not all, meals is one of the lures of travel whether you’re roaming the planet for business or pleasure. A 2012 survey from TripAdvisor of more than 1,400 U.S. travelers found that 65 percent were more likely to overindulge in food while on vacation, and another 49 percent are likely to binge-drink. Nearly a third claimed to always or often pack on pounds during a trip. Here’s where frequent fliers may have a leg-up on vacationers. Having most likely learned the hard way, they know how crucial is is to do some exercise while on the road to burn off extra calories before they end up with excess baggage (not kind that fits in the overhead bin).
Next time you’re away, try to sneak in a quick workout each morning or evening when you’re winding down from a long day. This is especially important if you’re enjoying feasts daily and not doing any form of activity, like hiking, biking, swimming, etc. Don’t worry, it doesn’t need to be an intense sweat-fest. This 20-minute workout video designed by Pete Egoscue, Sonima.com’s alignment expert and author of multiple books including Pain Free, features a series of easy and effective exercises you can do right in your hotel room—no gym equipment, workout clothes, or sneakers needed.
Related: Simple Airplane Stretches for a Long Flight
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Source: http://zenhabits.net/effortless-habits/
By Leo Babauta
Forming new habits can be life-changing — if you start meditating, create a simple exercise habit, and eat more vegetables, you health and happiness can be transformed in a matter of months.
But sticking to a habit can be difficult, because life gets in the way. And we get discouraged when the habit gets disrupted.
How can we form habits without all the struggle?
I’m going to share two strategies that I’ve found to be priceless:
Slipping into the habit; and
Leveraging your smartphone
They’re so painless you will barely feel them. And your life can be changed as a result, with very little effort.
Slipping Into the Habit
The first strategy is not to try to create a full habit, but to slide into it effortlessly.
Let’s say you want to meditate every day. Instead of setting aside 20 minutes and a meditation space for your new habit … slip into it. When you’re getting out of bed, just pause for a few seconds and pay attention to your breath. That’s it, just a few seconds.
That’s so easy you will barely notice the habit. Don’t try to become the world’s greatest meditator, don’t try to master the habit, just do a few seconds of it, and get on with your day.
After this becomes something you do without thinking about, try doing it for 30 seconds, then a minute. But don’t rush into this, take a week or two before you increase. It will seem…
Source: http://www.sonima.com/food/banana-ice-cream/
With warmer days upon us it’s officially nice cream season! Yes, “nice” cream. This frozen dessert is similar to ice cream but it’s made using frozen bananas as a base and can be dressed up in a million different ways. My version of sweet and salty banana ice cream is a very easy, whole-foods alternative to high-fat, refined sugar-packed products on the shelves. It is naturally vegan, gluten-free, nut-free, low-fat, and oh-so satisfying.
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If you haven’t had banana ice cream yet and you’re stuck deciding what kind to make, START HERE! This salted caramel banana ice cream is thick, very sweet, and unique because of the hint of salt. Also, I should note that while nice cream is a natural dessert, I also find it makes a sweet and satisfying breakfast (and when eaten for breakfast this recipe makes more like one serving, versus two for dessert.)
When you pick up the ingredients, be sure to choose soft dates. There’s nothing worse than old, solid dates that won’t blend and just make hard chunks. If you only have solid dates, you can soak them in warm water for three to four hours before you want to blend them and that will he…
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Bob Giardina, who had been CEO of Town Sports International at one time but lately had been a member of the board of directors, resigned from the company immediately for personal reasons, the company announced in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Source: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2016/05/does-glyphosate-roundup-cause-cancer/
Glyphosate is an herbicide made by Monsanto to be used on crops genetically modified by Monsanto to resist it. Growers can spray glyphosate on their crops. When it works well, weeds die and the crops flourish.
It is widely used in production of genetically modified crops (HT—herbicide tolerant—in the figure).
Monsanto says it has many benefits and is risk free.
But in March 2015, The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said that glyphosate/Roundup is “probably carcinogenic to humans” (see my post on this).
Now a joint WHO/FAO meeting on pesticide residues concludes
glyphosate is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans from exposure through the diet.
How to reconcile these divergent conclusions?
The Guardian says one possible explanation lies with who participated in the WHO/FAO meeting. It notes that the meeting’s chair is vice-president of the International Life Science Institute (ILSI) Europe. ILSI positions itself as an independent research group, but SourceWatch considers it a lobbying group and some critics view it as a front group for the food industry. Says The Guardian:
In 2012, the ILSI group took a $500,000 (£344,234) donation from Monsanto and a $528,500 donation from the industry group Croplife Int…
Source: http://www.sonima.com/yoga/integrative-yoga-therapy/
Before Joseph Le Page became known as a leader in the field of yoga therapy, he was a Kripalu Yoga teacher. So the announcement late last month that Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health had acquired Le Page’s Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) program marked what is in some ways a homecoming for Le Page, the closing of a circle whose beginnings date back to his introduction to Kripalu Yoga in 1987 and his certification as a yoga teacher two years later.
But on a larger scale, the acquisition—a natural one for both entities, as Kripalu has hosted a portion of the IYT program for the past 20 years—signaled that the retreat center had definitively staked its claim in this emerging field. (“Emerging” in the Western world, that is; in India, yoga therapy is a centuries-old form of preventative medicine.)
“For Kripalu to create a home for yoga therapy to grow and flourish is a significant step,” says Micah Mortali, director of the Kripalu Schools, which now include the School of Yoga, the School of Ayurveda, and the School of Integrative Yoga Therapy. “We’re making a commitment to yoga therapy and to playing a part in the future of [the practice].”
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