January 2012
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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the...
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Yoga for the Common Cold →
This is me right now.
—Karin
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Three Ways Yoga Improves Sex Life →
Saw this on my Facebook newsfeed, posted by our first yoga teacher! He’s currently in Texas training with Ana Forrest; he’s one of those people where he floats in his jumpbacks to chaturanga.
—Karin
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Here's a thing I was thinking in savasana today...
My God, it’s cold in here.
—y
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Feel a Chill? Brown Fat’s Busy Slimming You Down →
An homage to one of my favorite things, brown adipose tissue, or BAT. Literally an all-body blanket, keeping you warm.
—y
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"Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going."...
From what I’ve seen of The Biggest Loser, Jillian Michaels is a dipshit who projects her own weight insecurities onto other people. And if that is truly her mantra, she should be banned from being a fitness trainer.
When you puke and/or faint during a workout, that’s your body saying, “You’re pushing me too hard, I’m not ready. I can’t handle this.” The...
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Exercise Hormone May Fight Obesity and Diabetes →
Because it helps convert white fat into brown fat! A fact that many non-biology majors don’t know: you need fat and cholesterol. There is essential fat padding your organs (mainly white), and brown fat produces heat to keep you warm. Cholesterol is necessary because if you don’t have enough of it, your cell membranes would fall apart.
Some other cool facts: only about half of the...
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On resetting your body's set point for weight →
“A recent book, Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off, by George Blackburn, MD, suggests that maintaining a 10% loss for six months to a year helps your body adjust to the lower weight and thus reset the set point.
Wadden explains that when you lose large amounts of weight at once, you set up an internal struggle and hormones like ghrelin...
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Do we have a set point for exercise? →
Do we have a set point for exercise, like the one we have for weight?
—Karin
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Yoga makes me feel like a noodle. A wonderful,...
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Aaaand I’m watching Tangled now. Totes a grownup.
HA guys- this was my wednesday last week
…although TBH I tried out these new yoga mats yan and I got from our admin director of Concert Commission for stretching and even after washing it was like this horrible combination of sticky AND slippery! Any suggestions??
—ken
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“The most challenging workout for me was the yoga. Cardio is definitely the...”
– Brooklyn Decker, on yoga
I definitely had and have the same mindset as her. “I’m pretty fit and athletic, yoga can’t possibly be that hard.” How wrong was I.
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“I am successful
I am focused
I am productive
I am cooperative
I am flexible...”
– Solar plexus chakra affirmation (via littlewhiteelephant)
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“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Why I love yoga
Yoga is equal parts physical practice and spiritual practice, and it is the spiritual practice that has helped me accept my body the way it is.
I am naturally tall and curvy, a typical female endomorph: fairly weak, curvy and soft with a hip-heavier hourglass figure. In the past couple of years, my BMI has oscillated from 22.4 to 24.4, depending on the season and how stressed I am. I am also...
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“Get out of head that your legs need to be straight or that it should look a...”
– Seane Corn (via kristinapowell)
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Fullness: I'm so glad... →
fulllness:
…that I am finally accepting my body, and recognizing how lucky I am to have a body that works. No, I don’t have a thigh gap, and currently, my stomach is sticking out (thanks to a delicious snack of rye bread and raspberry jam). But I can touch my toes, run for miles, stay in a plank pose for…
Guys, all go read this! It made me so happy for @fullness when I Read it!! YOU...
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