Another winner from Web MD: This time, advice from Melinda Sothern, PhD, co-author of Trim Kids. Melinda offers 10 ways to raise food-smart kids. The best part about this advice may be that, like many things marketed for kids, it’s a great reminder for adults as well. If you’re not doing everything on this list after all, how can you …
Can Yoga Help You Deal With Digestion Problems?
For many students, the most common uses for yoga are improved flexibility, core strength and stability and improved endurance. However, there are several yoga poses which can help with other issues, including minor digestive problems. If you suffer from constipation, bloating, diarrhoea, indigestion and irritable bowel syndrome (to name a few common problems) you may find that several common …
How To Choose A Good Yoga Instructor
In the old days of yoga, an instructor in yoga would train a student one-on-one, and then the student would go on to train someone else, and so on. Things have certainly changed. It’s not always affordable or convenient to take private lessons, so most of us drop into a class when we can. This can be problematic because the …
Taming the Urge to Eat More Chocolate in the Office
Everyone loves a good article about chocolate, especially when it’s reporting research encouraging chocolate consumption. However, this time of year, many of us are doing our best to keep our minds off of chocolate. Why must someone bring sweets to the office every single day of the holiday season? Well, according to an article in Science Daily, after even a …
The Cupping Method to Detox and Remove Cold Symptoms
When you think of ‘cupping’, you probably think of holding something. In this case though, cupping is an ancient Chinese method of detoxification which also carries benefits like getting rid of cold symptoms, relieving aches and pains, and helping you to feel more energized. It is completely non-invasive, easy, and very relaxing and can be done right alongside acupuncture for …
Take Time for Taking Child’s Pose
Why does a time as sparkling and exciting as the holidays have to be so stressful? Our bodies are still dealing with a season’s windy change and now we have planning, baking, traveling and partying to do. It’s a joyous time, sure. But it’s a time of headaches too. I’ve already found myself in child’s pose several times in each …
The French Know How to Motivate
The French do a whole lot of things right. Bread, cheese, shoes, and films to name a few. They also know how motivate people. Or so it seems from this ad for Contrex, a bottled mineral water. I mean, look at those women go. I don’t usually get quite that excited about my workout. But then, I’ve never had the …
Attitudes of Gratitude
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. A time of harvest feasting and family meetings, a day for dressing down, board games, fireplace chats, or long walks counting colors in the leaves. This year, thanks to the encouragement of yoga teachers at Root and their reminders to breathe in with gratitude and out without expectation. (thank you, Nikki!) And, strangely enough, to times of …
How Acupuncture Boosts Your Immune System to Prevent Colds
It’s November. I have never liked November, ever. It’s cold, it’s grey, it’s not Christmas yet and oh yeah: It’s flu season. Also known as the season for drugging yourself silly and making yourself go to work even when you’d rather curl up in bed and do nothing for 48 hours. Every November, we hear about people get whacked left, …
What is Acupuncture and How Can It Help Me?
For a long time, it was hard to sort out the good acupuncture from the bad acupuncture and the media was largely to blame. Fortunately, a public push in more knowledge about healing methods which go beyond the western frame of reference has resulted in acupuncture becoming not only accepted, but widespread. However, you may only think of acupuncture as …
Running Barefoot Back to Our Roots
This fall, The New York Times published an article that may cause us to not only rethink running, but everything we’ve been told by shoe manufacturers for the last forty years. In his article, The Once and Future Way to Run Christopher McDougall discusses the reemergence of running on the ball of the foot, the way humans had run for …
The Gift of Gratitude
I’m sure most of you would agree that expressing gratitude is a good thing to do. And you might even suppose that gratitude is beneficial for your health. But now, the scientific evidence is in. The Huffington Post recently reported that several scientific studies have shown that the expression of gratitude increases not only general happiness, but pro-social behaviors such …