However, many studies show that ice baths, cold showers can be and are most beneficial to the body.
Category: Mind Body
Mind-Body is a term for the interconnectedness and reciprocal influence between mental/emotional states and physical health, encompassing the idea that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can impact our physical well-being and vice versa.
Practicing T’ai Chi . . . . Doing Nothing
I still practice the harder style techniques but there is growing sensitivity to the accompanying softness and grounding.
Those Important Everyday Actions
The small things that we do can set the stage for the larger things that we wish to undertake.
The New Year: Think Positivity, Act Positively
Congratulations. The New Year has begun. The games have started.
Healthy . . . it is a choice!
What is healthy? It depends on the individual.
Winter Reflections
Take a walk on a clear winter day or take a stroll through your mind . . . . . .
Reach Back . . . Go Forward
From my point of view, backbends are an extremely important aspect of asana. The muscles that are targeted in back-bends are the very muscles that keep the body upright and in alignment with respect to the influence of gravity.
Take Your Yoga Personally
Establishing a personal yoga practice creates a deep synchronization between that actions performed and the individual performing them.
The present of being ‘Present’
How often during the morning, afternoon, evening, ride to work, week, month, . . . year is one ‘actually’ Present?? Embodying acceptance of the now moment is to exist and be present. There is being physically present: consciously occupying a physical space. There is being mentally present: being aware while undertaking and completing a task. … Continue reading The present of being ‘Present’
How to Stand
The muscular and nervous systems acquiesce to the sub-par positioning over time. As a result, the skeletal system reflexively mal-adapts to the muscular and nervous system conformity.
