Can Static or Dynamic Stretching Be the First Step in Energizing?
For the past few months, getting out of bed and performing our daily tasks has been nothing short of a triumph of the will for
For the past few months, getting out of bed and performing our daily tasks has been nothing short of a triumph of the will for
For the past few months, getting out of bed and performing our daily tasks has been nothing short of a triumph of the will for
The microbiome isn’t just a passive passenger in our bodies. It’s an active participant in numerous bodily functions, from helping to digest our food to supporting our immune system.
While many of us may not give much thought to when we go to bed or wake up, the truth is that our sleep cycles play a crucial role in our overall health and wellbeing.
The Japanese call it “Manpo-kei” — literally, 10,000 steps meter.
Since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, when all of Japan was rigidly focused on fitness, both individual and collective, there has been a pervasive theory among fitness gurus that 10,000 steps is necessary as a base line to maintain proper health. Any exercise beyond 10,000 steps is simply extra.
10,000 steps, by the way, is about 5 miles.
The more we’ve moved humanity indoors, automated our skills away, and gotten our experience of the world filtered and sent to us through screens…
The more we’ve lost touch with some of the vital skills cavemen and prehistoric men learned in order to survive.
We’re only able to tell an automated device to play a song by a famous dead artist, or microwave a burrito, or fly to a different time zone on a moment’s notice, because our ancestors developed the essential skills that were necessary to beat the odds and survive.
Trying to get whole after a traumatic experience can feel like a lesson in acronyms – NLP, EMDR, CBT, etc. One method in particular deserves to