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Why Breathing is an Important Part of Yoga
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
You may have the mistaken idea that Yoga is just the next best workout offered among a smorgasbord of options.
Yes, Yoga can be a workout and a really good one for all the muscles and joints. You can...
Tags: Aging gracefully, Beginning Yoga, Chair exercises, Chair Yoga DVD, dr andrew weil
Love Each Other
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
February is the month we think of love. We usually relate it to cupids, romance, red roses and dreamy, candlelit dinners, but let’s expand that image for just a few moments…hopefully for more than...
Tags: brothers and sisters, candlelit dinners, clean water, climate change, real people
Boomer Yoga for the Back
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As we boomers age, back issues may be more common. Back pain is the primary cause of great suffering and disability. It is said that there are yearly 70,000 visits to the doctor due to back pain.
Yoga...
Tags: acupuncture, back ache, chiropractor, tight muscles, yoga practice
Baby Boomer Health – Prevention of Heart Disease
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February is American Heart month and while the stores are full of heart shaped balloons, and red candy boxes filled with chocolates, no one is talking about the number one killer of both men and women...
Tags: american heart month, chronic stress, dark chocolate, laughter yoga, romantic holiday
More and More Boomers are Turning to Yoga
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Boomers, more than ever before are taking up Yoga. They realize it is one of the most efficient and cost effective ways to address the body/mind connection. They find that by attending a yoga class, even...
Tags: boomers, mental health, positive attitude, self improvement, yoga practitioners
The Purpose of Yoga
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Hatha yoga is a system for achieving longevity, and radiant health.
Old age and sickness tend to settle first in the joints and in the spinal discs. Medial studies have revealed that these spinal discs...
Tags: conscious breathing, mental outlook, physical bodies, physical relaxation, yoga class
REAL Giving this Year
Posted in: Wellness Center & Yoga for Boomers |
It seems that almost everyone I know is reassessing their lives these days. Are you doing that too? We’re revisiting our priorities, looking at what we want to do to make a difference in our world, sifting...
Tags: boomer generosity, holiday season, meaningful gift, share warmth, true spirit
Lesson from New Orleans
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This November finds me in New Orleans, a city that has endured the most devastating natural disaster in American history, and also endured the most bungled rescue operations imaginable.
The government...
Tags: attitude, natural disaster, New Orleans, rescue operations, tragedy
Where To Do Yoga?
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When Yoga had its revival in popularity in the not too distant past, it was taught primarily in Yoga studios, a place where learning and practicing this ancient healing art was taken seriously. Students...
Tags: ancient healing art, breathing techniques, peaceful environment, postures, yoga studios
What’s Important?
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Life pulls at us in so many ways. There’s not only the daily responsibility of living our routines, but we’re constantly being reminded of larger issues…the financial, social and political issues...
Tags: global economics, good advice, peace, stress level, yoga practice
Killer Stress
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Stress has always been around. Our ancestors had to deal with stress of a different sort than today. I think of families crossing our country in covered wagons, heading west to an unknown destination,...
Tags: chronic condition, life expectancy, living with stress, peace of mind, upset stomach
Beauty and the Aging Beast
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Anti-aging has become the trendy buzzword, directed especially at us, the baby boomers. We are the ones paying close attention to the inevitable aging process, wanting to do it differently than perhaps...
Tags: baby boomers, dove pro age, face and body, old faces
Ten Suggestions for Doing Yoga – Off the Mat
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If you have been studying yoga for awhile, you may have heard the expression, “practicing yoga off the mat”.
When we sit or stand “on the mat”, the one we may have carried to our yoga class,...
Tags: mind and spirit, personal edge, vitality and health
Transitions
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Time goes by so fast! I can’t believe it’s already the end of summer and almost the end of autumn. I’m not ready! I was so comfortable and basking in the warmth of summer. I was so grateful for the...
Tags: comfort zone, transitions, warmth, yoga
A Yoga Teacher’s Dream Student
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Molly, a senior in college, stopped by my Boston yoga studio several years ago. She asked if I thought she could be helped by starting yoga, and then went on to explain her situation
A year ago, she...
Tags: body, mind, spirit, yoga
Health Care and Self Care
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With so much current media attention on the health care issue, perhaps we can find some time to consider self care. Maybe you are someone who never ever thought about this topic and therefore are wondering...
Tags: preventive methods, traditional health care, vitamin supplements
Challenging Times are Upon Us
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There’s no doubt about it, we’re living in challenging times. With that comes a responsibility to make a choice. How will YOU, personally, deal with the crises now facing all of us.
A friend just...
Tags: financial crisis, jobless rate, positive direction
Yoga For Every Body
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There is a statistic going around stating three million people are practicing yoga on a weekly basis. My reaction is... that number is simply not high enough. So many more could reap the benefits of this...
Tags: yoga
Angelena Craig
Posted in: Boomer-Living's Authors & Wellness Authors & Yoga for Boomers |
Angelena Craig, Boomer-Living Director.
"Following her career as an administrator of schools and human service agencies, Angelena became a Kripalu Yoga Instructor in 1995. She has created the program...
Tags: chair yoga, wellness workshops, yoga practice, yoga retreat, yoga teacher
Susan Winter Ward
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Susan Winter Ward, Boomer-Living Director, is an internationally recognized certified yoga instructor, author, award-winning video producer and Director of Boomer-Living's Yoga Center. She is the creator...
