Total Health in the New Year!

Melinda,

Thanks for your kindness. Let me know if I can help to inspire you or someone you know to get healthier in 2009. There is no end to how healthy one can be. That makes it exciting! Exploring and experiencing health is a wonderful journey. It brings us closer to our natural state. We need to feel what is inside more often. We need to feel our joy and pain. As a yoga practicioner there is not a day that goes by where we don't ask ourselves, with honesty, how do I feel? What do I chose to do with my feelings, my desires, where will by attention be? How do I feel about what is going on in the world? Where is the pain and what about the blissfulness? Balancing. Everyday feeling the energy of Pure Unconditional Love, Inner Peace, Joy and Bliss. Complete Pureness. It's within reach for all who care to own it. You need not be perfect. Life is to short to ignore the wonders, to find the magical. Inner richness =divine power!

Dennis,

The instructor is a woman, I would say in her 70's. Her name is Barbara G. And I am not at liberty to give out any contact information on her but if you'd like me to pass some info on to her regarding yourself, I'd be happy to do so.

Cheers!

True Rod, there does have to be motivation. Motivation can be internal. Trust me I have done many unhealthy things. Over and over we hear, our will power just is not strong enough to overcome. I don't believe I used anything but my will to overcome my bad habits(addictions). Why? Who is in charge of our will? We are. I simply trusted my feeling to be healthy and followed that with healthy choices. Hate to say, but it was just that simple. While addicted there was every reason in the world to continue to make poor choices. Who gave me the reasons? I did. Therefore I believed them. Not all our thoughts are the best ones for us...Just saying..

Iris,

Yes indeed cold calling is excercise! I still do that. Sit all day? Keep that spine nice a straight! Roll the shoulders. Big rolls. Inhale as your arms come forward and up, exhale as they roll back and down. Roll them back, then forward, back again. With the right arm, pat yourself on the back, with the left hand press that right arm back more, for a deeper stretch. Repeat with left arm. Bring arms straight out from the sockets, make fast fists. Open and close hands. Then rotate arms fully, from the shoulder, forward and back. Get your arms up over your head as often as possible while at your desk. Turn your body to the right, hold in the twist. Then turn to left. Bend over the legs, hanging the head between the legs. Relax completely.

Add a little leg action. While sitting, remove shoes, barefoot best....straighten legs, flex feet (bring toes toward you and pressing through the heels. Hold for 30-60 seconds. Point toes, nice strong point, feeling it throughout the legs. Again hold. Then, curl the toes under. Hold them tight. Babies do this all the time. Repeat the flex, point, curl 3x. Then while legs are on the ground, open them as wide as possible, placing your feet near the legs on the outside edge of the chair, push the inner groin muscles outward.

A very simple movement but very effective is while standing, inhaling slowly raise arms up overhead, look up as arms come up overhead. Exhaling, bring arms down slowly while lowering the head as well. Do just 3-5 to feel the relaxation. It's like magic!