15
2016Does Your Exercise Program Fit You?
Friday, April 15, 2016 As we age, we need to start looking more critically at our lifestyles to determine whether the choices we’ve made in the past are going to serve us in our future. While we have no control about aging per se, we do have some control as to how we age. According to Ayurveda, mid-life to old age (about mid-forties onward) is...
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10
2016What Is “Fitness”?
April 10, 2016 What is fitness? Is it the numeric quality of a certain percentage of body fat, how many steps you can do in a minute, your VO2 Max or how far you can reach to your toes? If you fit into those numeric qualities, what does that mean exactly? Does it mean that you are also healthy? Not necessarily. If you are...
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03
2016Doing Plank Pose – A Checklist
Plank pose is one of my favorites – it builds strength in the core, the chest, and arms. I am certainly not alone as plank poses can be found in just about every fitness program on the market. Pick up any women’s or men’s fitness magazine and it is usually in the top ten of exercises one can do when one is short on...
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27
2016Jesus and the Power of Forgiveness
March 27, 2016 Today is Easter Sunday, a day when Christians commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. As a little Catholic girl, it was hard for me to understand what the significance was of this man’s choice to go against the system, get tortured for it, subsequently killed and then resurrected. It was told to me that all of this was done for...
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20
2016Rufus, Yoga and Tolerance
March 20, 2016 This morning during my practice I put on a CD by Rufus Wainwright that I had not listened to in a long time. As “Going To A Town,” played, the physical sensations felt the first time I heard it came rushing back. There was the initial “Oh no, here we go bashing America again,” followed by disdain for the artist who was...
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09
2016Being Comfortable In Your Body
March 9, 2016 Recently, I went to a class on social networking and website management for small business. One of the first things the instructor asked was if we attendees had a “brand.” Up until that time, I had thought that a brand was a logo, a product or, sorry to say, a gimmick, that was easily marketed. I find the whole marketing response to...
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04
2015Treatment For Addiction – Spiritual or Scientific?
Friday, December 4, 2015 My library is filled with books on natural healing and allopathic medicine. I enjoy reading texts running the full spectrum from alternative healing to, shall we say, the anti-alternative healing camp. Each camp can be insular and shut off from any ideas from the other. But I think that the concept of health itself runs the gamut from the scientific to...
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28
2015Pilates On……….
Every once in awhile I get something coming across my Facebook feed that stirs an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach. Or maybe in my bowels. Whatever. It’s uncomfortable. Today was such a day. Someone shared a page from a Pilates teacher who is bemoaning the “combo” or hybrid-type of Pilates classes that combines Pilates and yoga or barre or boxing or cycling...
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01
2015Hookah Bars In Omaha *
August 1, 2015 *(NOTE: For those of you searching for an actual hookah bar in Omaha, please note that this is not the site you’re looking for. The title is purely a metaphor for the subject matter). One of my favorite shows is Bar Rescue. This reality show features a guy named Jon Taffer who helps struggling bar/restaurants around the country. Mr. Taffer has years...
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18
2015Lesson Two: Adding “Legs” To Your Posture
Saturday, July 18, 2015 This lesson picks up from last week (Lesson One: “On Your Feet!”) as we learn to build a strong, solid, yet fluid posture. Originally, this post was going to deal with both legs and pelvis, but I’ve decided to just stick with the legs today and address the pelvis next week. Once you have established your foot stance, bring your attention...
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