Exercise and Fitness
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Watch and do these seven exercises (all 7 are demonstrated in the video) to shape and tone your muscles.
While a regimented fitness routine is certainly part of a healthy lifestyle, what you do outside the gym is equally important. Most adults spend 10 hours or more each day sitting, and research1,2 shows this level of inactivity cannot be counteracted with a workout at the end of the day. Increasing your daily walking is a key strategy that pays significant dividends, both short term and long term.
To get the heart open, you need to reverse this chest collapsing, You need to elongate the front of your torso upward away from your waistline and then draw your shoulder blades down your back. This takes the head of your arm bones back and let’s your chest open. It causes your collar bones to “smile,” that is, to widen.
Since the sacral chakra is the home of the Divine Feminine, and it represents the goddess energy that is badly needed on this planet; doing second chakra poses boosts your fertility, creativity and sensuality.
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The key that opens the proverbial door to all of HIIT’s health benefits is to make sure the intensity is high enough. You need to give it all you’ve got, but only for about 30 seconds, repeated four to six times with a minute or so recovery time in between sprints.
Simply by living on this planet and inhaling the air surrounding us we can pick up harmful toxins that stick to the lungs like debris and reduce the lungs elasticity. Regular detoxification helps in smooth functioning of lungs and quick expulsion of toxins. Here is a 3-day detox program to follow.
Sitting kills, healing come through moving. Energy can be burned throughout the day by making small movements throughout the day. Stand up more often – at least 32 times per day (every 15 minutes or so). Change your posture often. Sit up straight and stand up straight.
In the above video I show you how to do “breath of fire” and I give you a few core poses as well as a secret core tip. But I didn’t describe the movement of the 3rd chakra as well as I could have, so I will elaborate a bit here. The physical movement that’s related to core energy is often referred to as “scooping your tailbone.” It’s official name in the style of yoga I teach is “outer spiral.”
How Are Universal Frequencies Affecting You this Week (April 23-28, 2018)? Find out in our weekly column, a helpful complement to your weekly horoscope, and a great standalone resource providing valuable insights into your health, nutrition, and muscular form and function.
It’s a well-proven fact working with weights — whether it be your own body weight or that of a dumbbell or machine — is a beneficial exercise that will enhance your muscle tone and strengthen your bones. New evidence also suggests strength training helps reduce your body mass index (BMI) and your risk for heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. There are many more benefits to strength training.
You can probably feel that hiking is good for your brain, but here are the facts as to why it shifts you in positive ways.
The 6th chakra is the home of feminine intuition, that deep knowingness that women have that surpasses — or bypasses, depending on how you feel about it — mere logic.
Eastern medicine practices have always placed a strong emphasis on prevention and treating diseases naturally whenever possible. Now, in many ways, Western medicine is catching up, particularly when it comes to utilizing tai chi moves to improve the mind, body and heart.
