Health

What is Pilates?

Living in Baja is like being on vacation every single day.  We are blessed with beautiful beaches, restaurants and many opportunities for social activities.  But one comment I’ve heard many times is: “After I moved here I gained weight.” And “I wish I could tone up my mid-section and then maybe my back wouldn’t hurt.”  I would respond with “Have …

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Be Well

Have you been bothered with intestinal discomfort, nausea and diarrhea?  First and foremost, stay hydrated.  If it hits you, you need to replace your fluids with water, clear juices or Gatorade.  Ginger Ale is soothing for some, as is Sprite and Squirt.  The extra sugar is a plus when you’re losing nutrients at a faster pace than absorbing them. In …

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A Path to Fitness

Regardless of where we are in our life journey, our level of physical fitness plays a key role in the quality of our experience.  Like all living creatures, during the course of our lifetime we experience a wide range of fitness, from being strong and able to being weak and unstable.  What separates us as humans is that we have …

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Ask For What You Want . . . by ella

Author and poet Maya Angelou said, “Ask for what you want, and be prepared to get it.”  She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Die. Asking for what you want will really save you time and energy.  Women are worse at asking for what they want, …

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The Feeling Side of Life…by ella

The Monty Python crew said, “When you’re feeling in the dumps, don’t be silly chumps.  Just purse your lips and whistle-that’s the thing.  Always look on the bright and light side of life.”  As our bodies are made up of energy, this silly advice has merit.  Here is another example of shifting and clearing negative energy from your body to …

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Express your Energy…By Ella

As Einstein said, “Everything is energy and that is all there is to it.”  OM is a unique vibration and produces dramatic results because of the frequency of the energy.  When spoken correctly it consists of four separate sounds the merge into one.  When chanted, the sound vibrates at a frequency of 432 Hz, which is considered by many scientists …

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