…while it’s not quite Friday on the left coast at posting time, it’s FRIDAY SOMEWHERE:
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Yoga and weight loss
- is there truly a connection? I think so. READ HERE and see what you think.
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This week, some stars that credited their fab bodies to yoga include: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Heather Graham and Miranda Kerr.
& remember when we posted about Marisa Tomei? She is a great (over forty) example for the benefits of HULA HOOPING! ((Reminds self to go find my hoops & dust ‘em off))
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Pranayama is the fourth limb of ashtanga yoga, the eight-limbed path of classical yoga.
It is often translated as breath control, and a pranayama practice is based on various ways of lengthening, deepening, retaining and otherwise regulating the breath.
“Yama” translates as mastery or control, but “Prana” imples much more than breath. Prana can mean “life” or “life force” and the idea of prana as breath is a subtle and physical manifestation of the life energy. All living things are infused with prana—it is the animating principle that we all share….
The clear intention of pranayama is to bring that which is unconscious to consciousness. One must bring the body and mind into a steady stillness in order to be able to observe ever refined shifts of breath and energy. Through the practice of pranayama, simple breath observation can be powerfully settling, as the breath grows spacious and subtle. The mind learns to rest in the interplay of opposites, here illustrated and felt as inhales and exhales, and loosens its need to qualify, judge and separate.
Thus the yogic ideal of union is experienced fully, and we move from intellectual understanding and curiosity, to realized moments (however fleeting!) of luminosity.
from YogaWorks
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- For extra benefits, try to hold this pose for ONE MINUTE. After you’ve mastered that for a couple of weeks, try for TWO.
Here are plank exercise variations:
- for beginners- on your knees, hands on a bench, hands on a wall…
- for more advanced- on elbows, hands on therapy ball, feet on therapy ball, one leg lifted,…
- other variations- hands a bit wider than shoulders with fingers turned slightly in; side plank: regular, with arm weights, with top leg lifted…
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SATC2 is coming!
Here is Kristin Davis’ cover from Fitness (source: PerezHilton) and HERE is the link when we featured her before as a fabulous fit chick.
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Here is Sade who is in her FIFTIES!
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The LA TIMES ran 2 articles this week on fish oil and omega-3 fatty acids. Worth a look: HERE and HERE
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Phew! Okay chicks, now go shopping!
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