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Friday night I joined twelve women in a Reconnect with Food Candlelight Yoga Workshop led by dietician and yoga teacher, Beverly Price. The session began with a one hour yoga class where poses were held for what seemed to me an interminable amount of time and concluded with a one hour sharing circle complete [...]
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I just finished a great weekend of yoga in Phoenix with Yoga master Erich Schiffman, who refers to his yoga as ‘freedom style.’ Close to 100 people gathered in Phoenix College’s gym to share two days of yoga, meditation and Erich’s message, which is in total alignment with my nourishing-yoga philosophy. Here are [...]
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Nourishing Yoga is a kinder gentler approach to health and fitness that focuses on taking care of ourselves, not beating ourselves up.
We tend to be so hard on ourselves, focusing on our perceived weaknesses and faults, instead of celebrating our strengths. We think that if we just keep working harder, eating less, and denying [...]
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My brother recently came across the following quote from Jack La Lanne and sent it to me.
“There are more gyms now than ever, and all kinds of crackpot diets, too,” he says. “It seems like they’re all out to make money. This stuff is so simple. Like I’ve always said, exercise is king, diet is [...]
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I love introducing new students to yoga. I feel that it’s my duty as a yoga teacher to make sure their first lesson is a positive experience, leaving them feeling better than before they began and excited to try it again with me or someone else. It is a special gift that I [...]
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The awareness I have developed on my yoga mat has carried over into my relationship with food and eating. For this I am extremely grateful. Like so many others, I have struggled with eating, weight, dieting, exercising and body image. Caught in the vicious cycle of “good/bad” thinking, my attempts at deprivation [...]
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Have I mentioned that I love yoga? It’s the only form of exercise I have ever stuck with for any period of time. It’s been over ten years and I hope to keep practicing forever. I try to get to class at least once or twice a week. The rest of the [...]
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I am not your typical yoga student. I can’t really say that I like “working out.” I have tried various forms of exercise through the years, not because I ever really loved it, but as a means of helping to control my weight. I usually felt better after exercise, be it jogging, [...]
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Two of my current interests are yoga & food and my commitment to trading in a life of ‘dieting’ for a life of healthy delicious eating and living. My passion for yoga spills over into a lot of my life. I credit it with helping heal my body and enrich all aspects of [...]
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