Natural Health and Wellness

Here is a great Pilates breathing exercise. Watch the video below to see how: From Pilates: Breathing: http://www.videojug.com/film/exercises-to-improve-your-breathin g Learning how to breathe properly in Pilates is one of the keys to easier and more fluid exercise. It increases the flow of oxygen to the blood and also aids in focus and concentration.

Here is a great excerpt from a thoughtful and brilliant  article by Dr. Mark Hyman .  .... The next time you eat, ask yourself if you are about to eat under stress.  Note how you feel by checking in with your breath- is it shallow or deep? Get in touch with your heart rate and see if you can find a way to use your breath to slow it down and relax your pulse. Is your mind racing and do you have stressful thoughts running it?  Are you excited about your food or are you feeling guilty or concerned about what is in front of you? Do you feel calm or restless? All of these questions are the beginning of embarking on an  understanding of how you relate to food .  The funny thing is, how we each relate to food tells us a lot about how we approach life and what we want out of it.  The next time you catch yourself eating under stress, follow these guidelines: Start each meal with 3 deep belly breaths.  For a thorough explanation on how to calm you...

Here are some good references on how to detox and activate your pineal gland: Meditate on pineal gland  and visualize it glowing in white golden light and feel it tingling or vibrating in the center of your brain.  Do the Aum (Om) chant every day  (sit upright, hands folded together on lap, right thumb over left.) Take a deep breath in (filling first the stomach/diaphram, then mid-chest, the upper chest.) Then exhale with the A (soft a) sound while emptying the stomach/lower chest. Continue exhaling and say U (cross between oo and strong O) sound while emptying the mid-chest. Finish by closing your mouth and saying the M sound while emptying your upper chest and feel vibrations on the roof of your mouth.Pause and repeat several times. Quiet your mind and focus internally on the sounds, the waves of vibration it creates, your breath, and your internal stillness within the breath movement. Avoid all things fluoride , including: tap water, cooking with tap water, fluoridated...

"Patriotism on a Plate" is a must-see talk given by Robyn O'Brien that she presented at Tedx Austin 2011 . She shares her amazing journey with her own child's food allergies, her type-A personality to find out why so many of our children now have food allergies, why our food industry is affecting the health of our nation, and why organics cost so much. This is brilliant, informative, eye-opening, and inspiring to all of us to make big or little changes to move ourselves, our families, and our country, patriotically, into a healthier, happier, and more economically sound future.

I f you're like me, if/when you started yoga you may have felt very confused by all the choices. Making sense of yoga and figuring out the right approach was, for me, frustrating to say the least. Then I found something that made all the difference in the world. It took the mystery out of yoga and gave me all the tools and guidance I needed to totally transform my health and my life ... What if there was a way for you to stop spinning your wheels too and finally start realizing all the great health benefits of yoga ... quickly and more easily than you even imagined? Well, I'm excited to tell you that now there is! Yogacharya, director of International Yogalayam, has just released his newest (and in my opinion, best) yoga home study program called The Science of Yoga . This one of a kind yoga training course just got released to the public today , and with the special offer on it for the next 72 hours , you really can't go wrong (there's even 3 excellent free bonuses in...

If we condemn anything that we eat, we are condemning ourselves in the process and our food will not agree with our harmonious, natural state of being. We will then experience the feelings that we offer our food (perhaps in a different context), until they get loud enough that we are able to recognize the feelings we are offering and decide to release them. If you have a bowl of ice cream and feel, "This is bad food for me. I am weak and have no will power to not eat this...", and continue to eat, you have just made yourself weaker. You have confirmed to yourself you are weak in will power, and you have weakened your body's physical health . Perhaps this is because the ice-cream is not a good choice for your well being, and/or because you've condemned it and yourself. So now maybe you feel bloated, irritable, tired, or fatigued. Notice yourself. Your feelings of weakness will continue to manifest in you as you continue to offer them. Now, if you take that same ice...