By RiversZen | Ageless Living , Health , Nutrition , Peggy Stevens
I went to lunch with a friend recently who shared an excerpt of a book with me. It is entitled Cancer Hates Tea: A unique Preventive and Transformative Lifestyle Change to Help Crush Cancer by Maria Uspenski and Dr. Mary L. Hardy. Your personal decision on the potential for tea to be either preventative or […]
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Ayurveda for Anxiety and Other Mood Disorders Ayurvedic medicine has been used for more than 5,000 years to prevent illness and be supportive and healing if disease does arise. Since Ayurveda posits that all disease starts in the mind, it should come as no surprise that it pays a good deal of attention to mental as […]
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By: Jessie Dwiggins Reprinted with Permission from YogaTuneUp I’ll outline some techniques to help your organs do their job more efficiently. The success of our digestive system depends on food being able to pass through the tubes unrestricted. Chronic abdominal tension reduces our ability to digest, assimilate, and metabolize our food. Even though the digestive processes of […]
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How Muscles Imbalances in the Pelvis Affect Digestion By: Jessie Dwiggins Reprinted with Permission from YogaTuneUp By now, most of us have seen the viral video of a unicorn squatting to easily pass rainbow colored soft-serve ice cream using a platform to elevate its hooves. (If not, search “unicorn pooping” immediately.) The analogy being that when we […]
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How Muscles Imbalances in Abdomen Affect Digestion By: Jessie Dwiggins, Reprinted with Permission from YogaTuneUp Can you stomach a deeper dive into the digestion system? We have chewed through the process of mastication and gulped down the movements of swallowing. At this point in digestion, food has been broken down enough for enzymes to chemically transform it into smaller, […]
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How Muscle Imbalances in Your Jaw and Neck Affect Digestion By: Jessie Dwiggins Reprinted with Permission from YogaTuneUp You know the feeling of having your omega-3 capsule stick to the walls of your esophagus and lodge there until you drink more water or eat a piece of breath to shove it down? An object’s progress from mouth […]
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How Muscle Imbalances in Your Jaw and Neck Affect Digestion By Jessie Dwiggins reprinted by permission from YogaTuneUp Everybody Eats: my suggested title for the prequel of the bestselling children’s book Everybody Poops. While it may not have the excitement and allure of a fascinating tale of elimination, it would be an equally compelling story of the […]
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Emotional overeating disorders can be difficult and devastating for those who suffer from them. What makes this happen? Why is it that some people, knowingly or unknowingly, turn to food for comfort? Here are some thoughts and ideas on those questions. Emotional overeating disorder is a general term that refers to any of various eating […]
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For those in the online ZenFit community online classes are in full force. Last Friday Kim and Chandra let a stretch class plus a question and answer session. On Monday they will be teaching how to test foods to find out what works best for your body and Thursday an online Community Cooking session … […]
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The holiday season is upon us now. A time where parties, family and lots of foods surround us. Many of us are trying to live a healthier eating lifestyle. Maintaining weight during the holidays can be difficult, but trying to lose can feel unattainable.The holidays are a trap in our path. The average person gains […]
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Body Shame – Part II, Solutionsby Chandra Stevens, Ki-Hara Trainer, RiversZenI dealt with Body Shame for years (read my blog post, Body Shame, Part I, Issues).Our bodies are strong and powerful vehicles, but it’s the sole medium that we experience our lives though. Being a beautiful person isn’t just outside appearances. Being beautiful and lovely […]
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Recently I was feeling tired and sick … long naps and a general sense of dis-ease … often dizzy and light headed … and self imposed stress? Don’t go there … so I decided to review my eating habits and figure out what was up with my body.In spite of living low carb for the […]
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