Author: Courtney
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Sweet Potato Fries
One of the best parts about having a kitchen again is being able to make my own food. There are so many awesome healthy recipes out there for foods most of would think of as vices. For Tom’s birthday this month, he requested sweet potato fries. I scoured the internet and found some great options,…
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Practicing Aparigraha by Mixing up your Yoga Rouine
Yoga has a ton of advantages and if you don’t believe it, then read this source. One of the yogi principals I’ve had the most chances to practice the past 2 years I’ve been traveling is practicing Aparigraha or Non-Attachment. Day to day routines are awesome and something I desperately miss, but when you are stripped…
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Yoga Helps Detox the Body
Toxins get a bad rep. We all know that in order to be healthy we should do things to Detox the body. Detoxes come in all shapes and forms with some being as extreme as week long juice cleanses to things as simple as making sure to drink 8 glasses of water a day. By…
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Śīrṣāsana or Headstand for Beginners
Headstand pose or Śīrṣāsana has some of the greatest benefits of any yoga asana. Headstands energize the body sending blood and nutrients to the brain, improve digestion aiding in the movement of food through the ileocecal valve (ascending colon), and stimulate lymphatic cleansing and drainage. All these benefits come from the effects of gravity acting in the opposite way…
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Kicking and Stretching Equal Simultaneous 50/50–The Harder you Kick you Can Balance Forever….
…This is one of the catchy lines of the Bikram Dialogue and a part I never leave out, because I love that Standing Bow Pulling Pose and that quotation actually describes how you should be feeling perfectly. I love Standing Bow, because this was the first posture in which I felt how my strength would…
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Building Your Base – How To Start Running (or in my case start again!)
Dear Runners, I am ashamed to admit it, I’ve lost my base. As a runner, this is one of the most painful places to be. This is that point when you know you should be running longer. You know you should be running faster. But at least you’re running. The problem is though, when you’ve…
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Take Your Yoga Practice Deeper: What I’m Working on This Year to Deepen My Own Practice
This year I’ve been reading the book Mediations From the Mat. It is a 365 day journey to help you understand Patañjali’s yoga sutras. I’m kind of cheating in that I started the book in Nov and only on day 50, but as the new year catches up with my reading I’m slowly syncing my…
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Fitness Accountability: The Secret to Achieving your Fitness Goals This Year.
Yesterday was officially the first real day of the New Year. Sure we’ve technically already had 5 other days, but given that our holidays fell in the middle of the week this year most of us were probably still on Holiday until Jan 6th. So here’s a question for you. Did you work out?…
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The Secret to Fitness is to Establish a Routine
As the New Year approaches, I thought as a personal trainer/yoga instructor it would be important to take some time to send a message to everyone looking to make health and fitness part of their New Year’s Resolution. So often at the beginning of a New Year, we look back on the past year and…
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Yoga For Athletes: 6 Reasons Why You Should Do Yoga to Enhance your Athletic Preformance
One of my favorite viral images was this one to the right that started getting passed around about a year ago. “I can’t do yoga because I’m not flexible enough.”-The Many Athletes out there not doing yoga. Athletes can do amazing physical feats but it’s so funny how often they shy away from the things…