Category: Health
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A Beginner’s Guide to Pranayama
Breathing is at the heart of yoga and pranayama from YogaJournal.com: A Beginner’s Guide to Pranayama
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How you can tell if someone does CrossFit
This is pretty mean of me–call it bad karma–but some of these images and videos are hilarious: How you can tell if someone does CrossFit From Elephant Journal.
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Yoga Accomplishments and Challanges
Since I started practicing yoga over two years ago I have seen many improvement in my practice: My Downward-Facing Dog has greatly improved; my heels are closer to the floor. Even better: Heather, my Vinyasa teacher tells me my Down Dog is one of the postures she has noticed that…
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Five of the hardest things yoga taught me
Here are Five of the hardest things yoga taught me from Yoganonymous.com. I haven’t really learned them yet, bit I am working on it.
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MEATUP. Finally, a good reason to visit a CrossFit gym
When he is not busy kicking my ass in chess, Angus creates websites. Recently, he shared with me a website he created for someone who creates and sells food for Paleolithic (Paleo) diet customers. MEATUP is a Northern California business that creates Paleo dishes and delivers them to CrossFit gyms (Surprise!) in…
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“Sitting is the new smoking”
My modified workstation with movable monitor arms and a keyboard tray that elevates. (Sorry for the mess.) Part of the reason I jump started this blog has to do with this “disease.” No, it’s not really a disease just as Degenerative Disk Disease isn’t one, but one creates the other.…
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Yoga Etiquette for New Students
I never knew there was such a thing as Yoga Etiquette for New Students–just good manners. Now I know. Thanks Yoga International.com!
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Observations From the Mat #1: An Introduction to my Various Practices
I attend three, sometimes four, yoga classes a week. While I have been practicing yoga for over two years now, I am still pretty green. This is mainly due to spending my first year only attending one Gentle Yoga class a week and treating it mostly like it was just…
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How to do a headstand
Yoganonymous.com’s surefire ways to nail your headstand a yoga sequence to get you there. I’m years(?) away from doing that kind of an inversion, but I’m posting it here for future reference. For now it’s strictly “Legs up the wall.”
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How Yoga Changes Your Body, Starting the Day You Begin
An interesting graphic from Yoganonymous.com about great yoga is for your body. Sources:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/body-on-yoga_n_4109595.html?1382963173http://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/it%E2%80%99s-no-stretch-yoga-may-benefit-heart-disease
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