Are you suffering from a post-lunch energy dip? Learn how to keep yourself energised throughout the day. Research shows that the most common time for energy slumps is 2.15pm. This is when many people hit a brick wall – and wish they could hit a soft pillow. Low blood sugar and the body’s circadian rhythm [...]
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Yoga in Prisons workshops throw up the philosophical questions such as Who am I? Am I separate from what I do? They investigate basic goodness, identity, and forgiveness as well as develop listening and empathy skills. Leaders also introduce simple meditations to help prisoners learn how to calmly be with whatever emotions arise in the [...]
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(OORD-vah don-your-AHS-anna) urdhva = upward dhanu = bow Step by Step 1. Lie supine on the floor. Bend your knees and set your feet on the floor, heels as close to the sitting bones as possible. Bend your elbows and spread your palms on the floor beside your head, forearms relatively perpendicular to the floor, [...]
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Why not start your week off with a good stretch and give yourself a mini Yoga Wellbeing challenge? This stretch strengthens the legs and ankle, it stretches the backs of the leg and also improves a sense of balance. Step by Step 1. From mountain pose, bring your left knee toward your belly. 2. Reach [...]
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It’s the paradox of sunscreen. When you dutifully slather on the SPF 30 before heading outside on a sunny day, you’re protecting your skin from harmful ultraviolet rays. But you’re also preventing those rays from prompting your skin, liver, and kidneys to make an essential vitamin—vitamin D. For more than 90 years, vitamin D has [...]
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Here at Yoga Wellbeing we seem to be getting a huge amount of professional runners come to us asking for a little bit of help with flexibilty. One of the main questions is how clients can improve their classic runner’s hamstring tightness. We take classic yoga poses and alter them to take limited flexibilty into [...]
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This is a great way to destress at the weekend. It opens up the chest and gets the energy flowing. So why not give it a try this weekend? (oosh-TRAHS-anna) ustra = camel Step by Step 1. Kneel on the floor with your knees hip width and thighs perpendicular to the floor. Rotate your thighs [...]
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You probably heard at least something about the record breaking three-day tennis match between the US John Isner and France’s Nicolas Mahut, but you may not have heard about the interview with Isner where he clearly qualifies himself as a yogi–immersed in intention without concern for results. “Especially once the match got past, you know, [...]
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From shoulderstand, exhale and bend from the hip joints to slowly lower your toes to the floor above and beyond your head. As much as possible, keep your torso perpendicular to the floor and your legs fully extended. Plough Pose Step 1 With your toes on the floor, lift your top thighs and tailbone toward [...]
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Yoga Wellbeing Step by Step 1. Squat with your feet a little less than shoulder width apart, knees wide. 2.Tilt your torso forward between your inner thighs. Then, keeping your torso low, raise your hips until your thighs become close to parallel to the floor. 3.Snug your upper left arm and shoulder as much as [...]
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