Plus 3 yoga poses to enhance your golf game Golf, like many rotational sports, is a one-sided sport. If you are right handed, you’ll always swing in the same direction. It’s the same with sports like tennis and softball. With softball you could be a switch hitter, but when fielding, you always throw with the
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Part 2 Last March I wrote a post called “How to Love your Body in 3 ‘Easy’ Steps” where I described my own journey with body shaming and self-loathing, and 3 steps that I found useful to come out of it. I wanted to revisit this idea as New Year’s Resolutions might be starting to falter. In
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And why yoga is the perfect tool Whether you are an athlete or active adult, aging takes its toll on the body. Morning stiffness creeps in, making it tougher to get out of bed and get going. Neck and back pain plagues you from sitting at a desk all day (or doom scrolling on your
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Building the habits of community and connection All lasting habits, no matter what they are, are built slowly over time. You can’t just go out and run a marathon, you need to train and slowly increase your distance. You start by running half a mile, then a mile, and so on. I have never run
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Keep your lower back feeling strong, not sore First I want to say how grateful I am for all of you subscribers out there (on Substack), reading what I write. I joined Substack in January of 2024 and I never imagined that this little blog of mine would grow like it has. Thank you so
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And what I do instead Many people use the new year to start over. To eat better, stop smoking or drinking, exercise more, but here’s why it’s one of the worst times to start something new. The energy of the Winter season is hibernation, going inward. Your true nature wants you to snuggle up next
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My Why #4: Acceptance Nobody is meaner to us than we are. Would you ever talk to another person the way you talk to yourself? Of course not. So why is it okay for you to be so mean to you? There are so many messages that we receive as children that carry with us
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Looking back on 2024 and seeing what I learned I started Yoga Living 50 and Beyond in January of 2024. I felt burned out with promoting my business on Social Media and was looking for something else. The daily posts on Instagram and Facebook felt like I was screaming into the void. Despite all my followers, hardly
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My why #3: Meditation Out of all the practices that are part of my life, meditation is the one I practice the least. I came to it last on my yoga journey, but it is an incredibly powerful practice. So why don’t I do it more often? Herein lies the mystery… Once upon a time,
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Finding acceptance is easier said than done, but is exactly what frees you from the stress in your life. The events in your life won’t change, but your relationship to these events can. You can’t control the events, but you can control how you respond. I find there are two kinds of people: people who
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