Articles tagged “Yoga”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

25 Tips For Finding Happiness, Health, and Balance This Fall By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Sep 12 2011 Find peace, health, and balance this fall. + READ MORE

A Healing Retreat Founded by the Founder of Greenpeace By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 29 2011 I needed to get away, regroup, think about who I am, where I have been, and where I’m going. There was one destination that I felt was calling my name- Hollyhock. Situated on Cortes Island in British Columbia, between the glaciers of Vancouver Island and the Coast Mountain range of the mainland, is Hollyhock Retreat, a healing oasis that guests can’t help but make repeat pilgrimages to. + READ MORE

10 Cooling Yogic Tips for Summer Health & Low Stress By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Aug 11 2011 Have you ever noticed how the heat tends to bring out the not-so-best in people? I have, as recent as a subway ride earlier this week. I could have let the ride get the better half of me, disturbing my increasing (but far from perfect) peace and tranquility of mind. I opted for the yogin's path instead to keep cool in body and mind. + READ MORE

6 Unexpected Holistically Healthy American Towns By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Aug 9 2011 Holistic health is some places you may not expect. + READ MORE

5 Ways To Age Gracefully and Healthfully By Julia Austin IN Food & Health Jun 24 2011 Did you know that only ONE THIRD of what controls how gracefully we will age is determined by genetics? It’s shocking, I know. Maybe your dad’s gray hairs that popped up at the age of 30 or your mom’s arthritis doesn’t have to be a major panic point for you after all. One third is genetics. That means there is an entire two thirds that are completely based on your own choices. + READ MORE

Skinny Margaritas and Jicama-Dipped Guacamole: How to Indulge on Vacation w/out Gaining Weight By Laurel House IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 21 2011 You’ve been preparing for your big beach vacation for weeks, getting your body in bikini-strutting shape, waxing out every last hair, even tending to those back pimples. You feel like a million bucks when as you step onto that sand and strip down to your barely there skivvies, finally showing off that bod that you you’ve been hiding underneath your heavy clothes. But after a week of eating too much, drinking too much, and exercising… um, not at all, you feel more than ready to wrap it up and hid behind your clothes one again. Not this year! + READ MORE

Weird Cure For Anxiety and Jet Lag By Laurel House IN Food & Health May 26 2011 More than a display case to show off your favorite pair of chandelier earrings, your ear lobe, and the many crevices that make up the visible area of the ear, is actually a useful body part. As the foot is to reflexology, the ear is the gateway to the body according to the principles of ear acupuncture, or auriculotherapy. But needles need’nt be used to get effects. + READ MORE

From Russell Brand to Gisele: Guess Which Celebrities Meditate By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Mar 23 2011 Meditation is a big part of my life. I meditate for 20 minutes after my yoga practice in the morning and another 20 minutes at around 5 pm in the late afternoon. "Sitting," as it's often called, serves to settle my mind almost like settling a snow globe in the morning before a busy day. And in the evening it helps me to wind down after a full day. It turns out I'm not the only one. More and more of us are finding peace through meditation. + READ MORE

7 Tips from Around the World to Get You in the Mood By Laurel House IN Food & Health Feb 14 2011 It’s a fact: 30 percent of American women have low sexual desire. To lift your libido, there are several little-known tricks you can try. Have fun testing out these alternative libido-stimulating options. + READ MORE

Can Meditation Change Your Brain? By Michelle Kay, NaturallySavvy.com IN Food & Health Feb 7 2011 According to a study, meditation may change your brain. + READ MORE

The No-Pill Valium By Laurel House IN Food & Health Dec 29 2010 While it may be too easy to take a little white pill and wash our woes away, you can actually find ease without it… in a single yoga pose. Valium now comes in the form of a breath. + READ MORE

5 Ego-Boosting Exercises That Will Make You Look & Feel Gorgeous… Naturally! By Laurel House IN Food & Health Dec 19 2010 make your workouts do double-duty, serving as modes to achieve above said “perfect” while simultaneously naturally boosting your confidence and making you feel gorgeous and strong- “flaws” and all! Yes, studies have shown that regardless of size or shape, people who workout feel better about their bodies than those who don’t. Suddenly “perfect” isn’t defined by a specific shape… but more a positive mindset and healthy attitude. But it’s not just any old exercise that has the ego-boosting impact... + READ MORE

This Yogini's Healthy Holiday Eco-Wish List (Hint, Hint) By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Dec 7 2010 Last year, I shared a bit of humor from my little cousin, who unabashedly shared his Christmas gift list totaling over $1,000 in 11-year-old boy dream loot. As a twenty-something year old adult practicing the yogic (and very green) art of needing little, creating a wish list seems preposterous. Not only is it antithetical to my eco- and spiritual beliefs, I am lucky and blessed enough to not need anything. + READ MORE

Avoid Going Nuts This Holiday Season with Yoga Nidra By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Dec 1 2010 "It's through the body that we heal," Miller says. "The mind knows the past; the body knows the present." + READ MORE

Hit MindBodyGreen Travel for Hot Deals on Healthy Get-Aways By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors Nov 23 2010 Yes, I'm 100% wanderlust and not proud. Adding to the challenge of staying put in one place, for at least a little while? A ray of sustainable travel sunshine in the midst of NYC's gray winter days: MindBodyGreen's brand new Travel site. Luckily, this one isn't something to feel guilty about. + READ MORE

Can Meditation Help You Avoid Holiday Weight Gain? By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Nov 21 2010 Holiday weight gain comes from having foods that we wouldn't normally indulge in available at Thanksgiving, copious holiday parties, Christmas, and then the big New Years' blowout. Cocktail parties can be the worst because we're often drinking and without even thinking we're surrounded by appetizers so we pick, pick, pick. Here's the deal: you have to remain mindful of what you're eating for the entire time you're eating it. This has a two-fold purpose: you enjoy the food you're eating much more and you stop when you've had enough. + READ MORE

iPhone App TrackYourHappiness Links Pleasant Daydreams to Low Moods By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Nov 19 2010 Breathe. Be in the moment. Be the moment. It could sound like a lot of fluffy, non-sense to a yoga class goer who's new -- or ambivalent -- about the whole practice. That's why, as a yoga instructor I'm hesitant to mention such coined terms in class so much as I am quick to point the all the great science pointing out what us practitioners knew all along; the meditation-happiness factor. + READ MORE

What's Kitchari and Why is It One of the Most Detoxifying Foods? By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Oct 31 2010 By making a batch a kitchari for lunch and dinner just for a week, along with a simple breakfast of oatmeal, quinoa, or barley you can give your internal organs a break before the big horray of the holidays. + READ MORE

In This Season of Overindulgence Get Your Digestion Running Smoothly with Yoga By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Oct 29 2010 A big part of digestion is getting proper blood flow to the abdomen. Yoga works by opening up the blood flow to this key part of the body and as a result pushing out physical toxins. + READ MORE

Ditch Your Yoga Mat (If You Dare) By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Oct 13 2010 Some things just go together: peanut butter and jelly, rainy days and naps, red wine and candlelight. That's how I feel about yoga-- and my mat. Some yogins feel differently about their mats and are boycotting them altogether, as reported in the New York Times and my subsequent blog on TreeHugger. + READ MORE