Balancing Physical Activity with Optimal Health
We all eat and we all move, but how do we balance the amount of food we eat with our physical activity level? Are we trying to lose,...
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Tips for a Beginner Yogi
Yoga is more than just a moving meditative practice. It sharpens our neuromuscular response, thus impacting our natural motor control. It...
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Meditation: Grounding our Reality
During this time, one of the things that has kept me grounded is meditation. If you're at a place where stress is getting to you, take a...
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Causes of Cravings
A craving can be a signal to your body, a way of your body communicating through your blood-brain barrier that something is off-kilter. ...
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Exploring a Craving with Mindfulness
The body is a biocomputer. Your heart never misses a beat and your lungs never miss a breath. Your body is constantly processing...
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Barre Training
Holistic nutrition and training go hand in hand. Physical wellness is a dimension that can carries many different modalities when it...
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The Gut-Brain Connection: Benefits for your Health
Although it sounds incredible, your intestine can contain more than 500 million neurons, which are closely connected to your brain...
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A Quick, Nutritious, and Satiating Snack
While I love all things wellness, I unabashedly admit that I'm not the best cook in the world. I'm constantly experimenting, and I'm...
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The Waves of our Nutrition Cycle
During a woman's cycle, I believe it's imperative to strategize nutrition and movement patterns to ease some of the more unpleasant...
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The Motivation to Fix our Postural Tone
A couple posts ago, I talked about the importance of mobility and movement in our daily lives. As we are generally sitting down more...
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Our Perception of 'Looking Fit'
I've been a group fitness instructor for almost three years, and through my classes, I apply a multifaceted blend of exercises targeting:...
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Creating Space in the Body
When we sit all day, we carry a lot of stagnant energy in our bodies. One of the best things you can do for your body is to elongate and...
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5 Ways to Improve Mental Health Today
The human brain is a remarkable organ that functions around the clock. It never ceases to process different things, like our actions,...
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The Adaptability of our Guts
As more science emerges regarding our microbiome, we're becoming increasingly aware of how our gut health affects our mental health. Our...
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Motion is Lotion - The Science behind our Fascia
In my last post, I discussed the importance of mobility during this time. As we are all likely more sedentary as this crisis unfolds,...
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Mobility during these uncertain times
We're all feeling a little stir crazy. We've been home for weeks, the news is scattered with fear, and we're not sure when it's going to...
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Are gummy vitamins effective?
When I used to eat gummy vitamins, I pondered on the effectiveness of this supplement. After all, they were delicious and seemed like...
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Blueberries - The Blue Gem of Nutrition
As we're all quarantined for the foreseeable future, adequate and healthy nutrition is VITAL for a robust immune response. I wanted to...
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Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF)
We hear about some of the 'happy' chemicals like serotonin, dopamine, and endorphins that can influence the state of our mood and...
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Living Proactively Against COVID-19
I would have been remiss if I neglected to include a post about COVID-19 and the chaos it's poured across the world. The WHO has...
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