By Teri Casamassine
According to a 3 year study at Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living (IEL), Yoga can give students the tools to more effectively handle their challenges in school & society. Yoga’s ability to provide instantaneous ways to de-stress can prepare them for whatever situation may await them on any given day was born out by comparing before & after responses to questionnaires. Read More

Sept. 4, 2011 by Georgia Pabst
Nearly 10 years ago, Jayne Ader and Madeline Gianforte opened CORE/El Centro to provide holistic healing and wellness programs to the low-income, largely Latino community on the city’s south side. The center started in rented space on the fourth floor of the Esperanza Unida building at 611 W. National Ave. with only the two co-directors who also served as therapists. Read More

Before developing a workout routine, you need to have a grasp of the five basic motions involved in nearly every exercise: pushing up, squatting, lunging, twisting and pulling. Celebrity trainer Brett Hoebel shows you how to master these primal movements (and how not to do them) so you can get the most from your workout. Watch now. Read More

Written by Ana Nieto

Not too long ago I struck up a conversation with one of my clients who expressed disappointment with her posture. I shared with her the problems I used to suffer in the past from scoliosis including back pain, misalignment, and a horrible state of self consciousness. I felt like a hump backed caveman. Read More

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
For those requiring additional reasons to show up at the running path or at the gym in the dreary heart of winter, science has come up with a compelling new motivation. Exercise can, it appears, keep your bone marrow from becoming too flabby. Read More

By MANNY LOPEZ – For the North County Times North County Times – The Californian | Posted: Wednesday, November 17

Chris Harmon didn’t need a book to tell him about barefoot running. A 55-year-old holistic health educator from Vista, he has come to be known as the “running practitioner” by many Olympic athletes and national record holders, and he’s been extolling the virtues of running sans shoes for the past 30 years. Read More

By GINA KOLATA/NYTimes/Fitness&Nutrition/Photo by RobGriffith/Associated Press
It’s a cold day and you have just finished a grueling session at the gym, sweating away on an elliptical cross-trainer. Or you had a tough workout in the swimming pool. Or in a spin class. Or you just finished a hard run or a long, fast bicycle ride. Read More

By JEN A. MILLER/NYTimes/Health
My butt, unfortunately, is dead.

“Dead butt syndrome,” the sports medicine doctor said to me after making me go through a series of circus-act contortions that involved swiveling my hip in all directions. His voice was very serious, his tone stern. I wondered if I should start making funeral arrangements for my rear, maybe a New Orleans-style blowout parade? Read More

Written by: Teri Casamassine
It’s late autumn. Crops have been gathered & the land is ready for a long rest. Historically, it is a time to take stock, stock up & prepare; not only for the cold of winter, but for what we hope to achieve in the long run.

In the two months past the September equinox, the days have shortened & the temperature has dropped. Our solar driven energies are winding down. Read More

By Hannah Cutts October 11, 2010
There is no question about it; yoga is a hip new trend in the world of exercise and health. It has become quite ordinary to see fit people strolling around busy metro areas with rolled up yoga mats under their arms, clad only in spandex-oriented clothing and emanating an aura of tranquility, balance and rabid “hippie” ideals. Read More