Every spa visit has a story of its own; this one, to Sundara Spa, is nature filled. Sundara Spa is…
Okay, we just had our core rocked from this pilates workout for abs and core. Can you say BURNING (but…
When asked, most of us wish to live a long and healthy life. But are you doing everything you…
We need a strong core not only for the summer bikini season. As a yoga instructor, I see on…
Last week I shared with a group of Hilton Head Health guests the love I have for my newly acquired Fitbit. Little did I know that in doing so I would open the floodgates to all sorts of humorous, Fitbit confessions.
Not long ago, I would be frustrated if I didn’t find a parking spot close to the store entrance. Now I find myself looking for spots at the edge of the lot. Because every step I take makes a huge difference.
A guest arrived in Tucson feeling fine, so he was surprised when a Canyon Ranch nurse took his blood pressure and said it was high. He’d never had that problem before. He booked an appointment with Nicola Finley, MD, and she got an even higher BP reading. Luckily, she’s an intuitive doctor with broad perspective.
Thanksgiving is traditionally a day of overindulgence. In many families, the main activities are eating, watching football on TV, feasting on the leftovers, and taking a nap. But it can also signal the start of an unhealthful holiday season – a five-week period in which food, alcohol, parties and stress can lead to weight gain and regret by January 2nd. But Burr Leonard, founder of The Bar Method and Bar Online wants to change all of that. November 26th, the day before Thanksgiving, has been declared “Workout Wednesday” by the American Council on Exercise. “Americans tend to gain one or two pounds around the holidays and often don’t return to their previous weight, resulting in the extra pounds adding up over the years,” warns Burr. “To avoid weight gain from the high calorie meals of Thanksgiving, Americans can reserve the day before as a time to be as active and healthy as possible.”
At 34, I sometimes feel like an old fogey in my yoga practice. To be fair, I’m absolutely a little bit of the old-fashioned type and I’m definitely kind of old soul-ish. And I think the term fancy yoga poses can surely be relative. When I say fancy yoga poses I generally mean most inversions like handstand and headstand, as well as basically all arm balances, and we can also go ahead and throw in poses that require excess flexibility too. Yet these are the poses that people are Instagramming. These are the postures that people are rocking out in Facebook profile pictures. (I guiltily hang my head at that one.) And there’s a reason for that—they can be fun to practice and fun to look at.
On the level of “the now,” if we don’t allow things to fall away, we wind up carrying an ever-heavier…