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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Being Perfectly Asymmetrical
There's always talk about making sure we are aligned. Unfortunately, alignment gets tied to symmetry all too often, which can make...
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Passive Stretching - Overstretching our tissues?
In the yoga community, there's discussion about the veracity of passive stretching. In Yin Yoga, we are dictated to hold poses for an...
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