Achieving Total Wellness: The Mind and Body Connection
Total Life Balance: Relating Your Personal Wellness With Global Wellness

What Is Fitness?

What was once described as a state of being able to achieve daily performance, no longer makes the grade. That’s all physical fitness was — getting through the daily routine without feeling undue fatigue.

The 21st century accepts no such definition. In fact, long before the 21st century, no such definition would be accepted within the inner circle of fitness professionals.

Fitness is now based on an OPTIMAL performance of body through exercise, nutrition and life balance. The word optimal may bring about the thought of “being the best,” but for each individual, it’s simply the challenge of being the best you can be.

You can achieve fitness through [Read more →]

Exactly What You Need to Practice Yoga

Can you participate in Yoga without the proper tools? Sure, as long as you don’t mind bruised elbows and knees. Truth be told, I used to love doing Yoga on a concrete patio in the sunshine, and didn’t mind the fact that I was covered with little pebbles, dust and a mud concoction of sweat and dirt after I was finished.

If that sounds just as fun to you, maybe a career in the military is more of what you’re looking for, as opposed to the Yoga groove? Hands down, Yoga is enjoyable for MOST individuals in an environment accompanied by certain Yoga tools.

Yoga Tools?

You say tomato, I say to-mahto, yes? Yoga tools are all those things you use in Yoga participation. From clothing to straps and bricks, it can all make your Yoga practice a little more intense or focused, and your time spent on a mat more beneficial. [Read more →]

Those who are passionate about changing human behaviors to prevent global environmental change might already have solar water heaters, solar lights, and solar panels on their homes, but what does this technology really offer corporate America and mainstream consumers who still feel that technology like solar panels are too expensive and inefficient?

Quite a lot, according to Fred Krupp’s recent re-release of Earth: The Sequel.
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Yoga Pose: Uttanasa (Intense Standing Forward Fold)
By Kerrie Cason

Ut = Intense
Tan = To Stretch
Asana = Posture

Description:

Begin in Tadasana. Your feet can be together or hips distance apart. First take a deep inhale, and using your exhale, bow forward, bending at the hips. Don’t round your back — the idea is to eventually lay your stomach on your thighs. Until you can achieve this, [Read more →]

Drinker’s Guide to All Things Purified Water

Now that we know bottled water leads the way in the world of plastic pollution, it’s easier to ask — is it really that much better than drinking from the tap? And what is up with the alkaline and acid water that have become the center of much conversation and controversy?

Add to this ever-growing dilemma, the power of the people — stating in a nationwide poll that Los Angeles has the best tasting tap water, and one could see all of this as a sign of the Apocalypse. Or, it could be the fact that the L.A. water comes from the Sierra Nevada mountains. After drinking water from the tap in both Long Island, NY and Portland, OR, I just can’t imagine Los Angeles has the best drinking water! (note to readers: I’ve lived in LA nearly my entire 35 years). The following is a guide to try and sort all this water information out. [Read more →]