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Warming Up For Winter Sports
Before plunging into winter sports, we can prepare the body ahead of time by toning up major muscle groups.
Moving Through Life
Simply making small changes in routine tasks—from house cleaning to grocery shopping—can add up to better health than the daily hour at the gym we tend to avoid.
Pound-Shedding Workouts
The consistent exercise so vital to weight loss becomes easier when we choose a stress-reducing routine, set realistic goals and practice patience.
Ease Repetitive Strain Injuries
Any movement we do repeatedly, such as typing at a screen or keyboard, can cause muscle strain and injury, but the right kind of exercises can lower our risk and repair damage.
Rebooting Libido
Among its many other benefits exercise increases testosterone, endorphins and adrenal hormones, all of which are essential to a satisfying sex life.
Natural Awakenings Yoga Glossary
From Ashtanga to Kundalini, we break down the differences between the various schools or styles of yoga.
Why Our Body Loves Yoga
We don’t have to twist ourselves into pretzels for our joints to benefit from the suppleness that yoga provides.
Top Yoga Trends
From curvy yoga to paddleboard yoga, there’s an evolving style for everyone no matter what their age or level of fitness.
Dive Into Swimming
Swimming offers a low-impact and highly satisfying exercise routine. Strategies from world-class experts can make pool time even more productive and enjoyable.
Exercise To Sleep By
By doing the right kind of exercise at the right time of day, we can sleep soundly all night long.
Running with the Kids
Families with children as young as 5 easily bond when they mindfully run together at a fun pace.
Moving Through Menopause
Walking, strength training and yoga are just a few of the ways that being physically active during menopausal changes eases our days and benefits mind and body.
Gardening Asanas
Overdoing garden work can produce aches and pains, but by integrating yoga positions while planting and weeding, we can emerge pain-free after hours of being on our knees and bending.
Fitness in 10 Minutes
By strategically working certain muscles in strategic sequences, we can get fit in a 10-minute, 10-step workout just three times a week.
Be On the Ball
Originally designed as toys, exercise balls are now used for everything from building core stability to helping healthcare patients regain mobility.
10,000 Steps and Counting
Walking 10,000 steps a day began as a pedometer marketing ploy, but it’s become a goal worth striving for because of the way it beats back diseases like diabetes and breast cancer.
Championing Holistic Athletes
Athletes in a wide range of sports are finding that natural diets and holistic healing modalities help them achieve their personal best.
Try Some Stretches
Not all stretches are alike, so it helps to know what kind to do for what purpose.
Building Better Bones
Even in our later years, we can strengthen our bones with the right targeted movements.
Rodney Yee on Yoga as a Way of Life
The prominent New York yoga teacher counsels us never to berate ourselves about our practice and to set aside time for asanas and exploration of different yoga traditions.
Take a Hike
Blissful moments in nature can be found just minutes away from home, if we know where to look.
Four Reasons to Break a Sweat
Pesticide, plastic phthalate, heavy metal and BPA chemicals efficiently exit our body when we perspire during a workout, sauna or sunny walk.
New Ways to Court Fitness
Two fresh new faces on tennis courts these days are pickleball, a fun mixture of tennis, squash and table tennis, and cardio tennis, honing skills amid high-intensity aerobic action.
Mastering Self-Defense
Effective self-defense comes when we move mindfully through environments and know how to safely redirect an opponent’s energy.
