Empowering Zambia through Yoga – Video
Posted: March 9, 2013 at 1:46 pm
Empowering Zambia through Yoga
For all my Zambian/African peeps, yoga lovers, medical colleagues, anyone who needs some self-esteem boost/inspiration or anyone who just wants some good music to listen to -- here #39;s a video of my trip to Zambia where I had the humbling honor of being part of an amazing and powerful transformation in some of the orphanages and schools there. Even though I was in Zambia for just over a week, these pure and beautiful souls that you #39;ll see in this video have truly given me a lifetime of hope, belief and vision that Zambia has within it all the courage and power to be the change and take upon the challenge to stay healthy in a place where there are hardly any health care providers available, to stay peaceful when the government and leaders uses the country #39;s money corruptively, to share happiness even when they have so little, to fight prostitution by realizing their self-worth, to love even when they are treated wrongfully, and to laugh and remain centered even when nothing seems to be right. My beloved Zambia -- go lead the way, I have always believed in you!!! Music by African Tribal Orchestra - African Sundown Download the song on iTunes in the link below! itunes.apple.com
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YOGA FOR BEGINNERS – Full Length Class (15 Minutes) – Video
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Silent Yoga – Video
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Silent Yoga
Silent Yoga For more information and in-depth instruction please refer to my blog or other videos. yogawithcherylbruedigam.blogspot.com The best and most important thing about yoga is that the practice of yoga allows us to quiet down and be with our self; to go within, to reflect, to stop...
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Teach your child yoga
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Yoga might be most popular with adult women, but it is also good for children. It helps promote both physical and mental health in the little ones.
The Radiant Child Yoga: Teacher Training Levels 1-3 is a three-day yoga class conducted by an Australian expert from March 15 to 17.
If you're looking for a class where you can learn about the practice in order to teach your kid, the "Radiant Child Yoga: Teacher Training Levels 1-3" programme might be right for you.
The 30-hour programme is specially designed for interested mothers, yoga teachers and those working with children who wish to create a world of peace. It will be running at Baan Soi Luecha, 64/1-2, Phahon Yothin Soi 3 from March 15 to 17.
Participants will learn basic yoga, different movements, techniques, as well as tips on how to effectively communicate with children through the practice.
It will be conducted in English by Siri Mukta Kaur, an Australian yoga practitioner who has been teaching the discipline to children for more than 20 years.
The fee is 20,000 baht including a guide book and other materials. Those with no yoga experience are welcome. Registrations should be made before Thursday.
For registration, call Urapa on 089-895-5658, 081-889-9339 or email joywatana@hotmail.com. To learn more about Radiant Child Yoga, visit http://www.childrensyoga.com.
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Visually impaired enjoy yoga in library
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At first glance, there's nothing unusual about Nancy Yates' Thursday night yoga class, as she instructs her pupils to "feel the energy, feel the life force," while pacing the room barefoot. But this is no ordinary class. The 11 students sprawled out on colorful mats between the stacks of the San Francisco Public Library are all visually impaired.
The Library for the Blind and Print Disabled, on the second floor of the Main Library, has been offering the weekly class since April 2012. Yates, who began practicing yoga after a serious skiing injury more than 30 years ago, first introduced her special brand of yoga to the San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in 1996.
"Visually impaired people have a different spatial relationship," said Yates, whose students have ranged from teenagers to 102-year-olds. "I've developed the movements to be slow. ... We have to be very clear about description, very precise."
Though Yates says the class is perfect for senior citizens, last week's session consisted mostly of young men. A group of students, some with developmental disabilities, from the California School for the Blind in Fremont has been attending classes every other week since September.
"They thought it was crazy, I thought it was crazy," said Patrick Weseman, a residential counselor at the school who chaperoned the students. "But I've been overjoyed, they love coming out here."
Dominic Montelongo, a chatty 20-year-old student, had to be shushed a few times by Weseman, but said he's enjoyed the experience.
"Yoga is really fun," he said. "It's good exercise, it helps calm our brains down a little bit," he said.
It was Josh Plump's first time coming to yoga. He said he was unsure about it at first, but Yates won him over.
"It was amazing," the 18-year-old said. "You can't think about anything but letting yourself focus and breathe."
The Library for the Blind and Print Disabled is part of a national network served by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, which circulates audiobook players through postage-free mail.
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Gemma Collins and Billie Faiers take up aqua aerobics to shape up for annual Marbella trip
Posted: March 7, 2013 at 9:48 pm
By Hanna Flint
PUBLISHED: 09:03 EST, 6 March 2013 | UPDATED: 12:22 EST, 6 March 2013
A new day, a new exercise fad for Gemma Collins as she takes up aqua aerobics to shape up for summer with Billie Faiers.
The TOWIE stars' watery activities are part of Gemma's new pre-Marbella diet club whose members also include her ex-boyfriend James 'Arg' Argent and Billie's sister Sam.
The foursome jump in a pool to splash around in Wednesday night's episode.
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Splash: Gemma Collins and Billie Faiers pump it up in the pool at water aerobics classs
With the help of an instructor, the Essex girls and boy get shown a wave-making routine inspired by global dance fitness craze Zumba.
Gemma, Billie, Sam and Arg all want to be in tip top condition before their annual partying trip to the south of Spain.
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Senior centers turn to brain aerobics classes
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In a cheery room in Cockeysville, two dozen people sit with their heads down, focused on the papers in front of them. The only sound is the scratching of pencils on paper.
The sight triggers memories of school days, but this is no group of middle schoolers eking their way through a math class pop quiz. It's the Brain Aerobics class at Broadmead Senior Living Community.
Once a week, speech pathologist Chuck Warnke leads the class through a variety of mental activities, including riddles, word games and history puzzles one activity challenged class members to remember the prices of products, from a gallon of milk to a pair of women's leather boots, from 1972.
Like regular aerobics, Brain Aerobics is all about working out. "It's a set of exercises that engage as many different parts of the brain as possible," explains Warnke, who launched the Broadmead class about four years ago.
As the U.S. population ages, brain health is an increasingly hot topic. According to the Alzheimer's Association, more than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease that includes 1 in 8 older Americans.
"Three-quarters of people over 80 don't have memory problems at all," says Dr. Michael Ankrom, a geriatrician at GBMC Greater Gilchrist. "But it's an understandable fear. None of us want to not be in control of our environment and that's essentially what dementia does."
To stay as mentally fit as possible, Ankrom recommends that his patients stay physically fit, get enough sleep, stay hydrated and engage in mental activities like Brain Aerobics.
"We often think of the brain like we think of muscles use it or lose it," says Ankrom. "That's not totally true, but we do get foggy. Like with math if you don't use it every day, it's harder to do."
The best brain-stimulating activities are enjoyable and social, say Warnke and Ankrom.
Warnke points out that while solitary activities (like crossword puzzles or reading) are valuable, they are not as mentally challenging as activities that force interaction with others, or that jar people out of their everyday routines.
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Random Thai Chi man @biancafenn gig last night. I am amazed she was able to hold it together. – Video
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More of the Thai Chi man. Better moves than me. – Video
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Russell Brand thinks of Tom Cruise when he does yoga
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When you do yoga, what do you think of? A relaxing time at the pool? A beautiful sunset? Maybe waves hitting the shore.
Well for funnyman Russell Brand, actor Tom Cruise does the trick. We kid you not!
The British funnyman is a huge fan of the ancient Indian spiritual and physical discipline and the Mission Impossible actor - who he starred with in Rock Of Ages. Tom knew Russell liked yoga so he bought him a yoga mat, so now Russell's thoughts turn to Tom as he's exercising.
During an appearance on UK TV show This Morning, Russell said: "Tom Cruise bought me a yoga mat, although I don't know if it was actually from him. Certainly someone who works for Tom Cruise sent me a yoga mat and said here's a yoga mat and think of Tom Cruise when you do yoga. And I do.
"I like yoga a lot, I don't think there's a problem doing yoga and meditating every day ... there's a daily access to unseen realms of power - not just me, everyone has that within themselves! Yoga and meditation for me is a way of accessing very beautiful principles that perhaps make us happier at a time when people feel disillusioned with the economy, concerned about the ecology, worried with politicians, don't trust what they are being told on television..."
Russell - who was once married to singer Katy Perry - also revealed he is happy most of the time and feels at his most contented when he is treating other people well.
When asked if he was happy, Russell replied: "Yes. Intermittently. Happiness cannot forever be sustained like some glistening bauble, it's a transitory thing like a butterfly ... so I'm happy mostly when I'm being nice to other people."
Isn't he so in the zen state of mind?
(BANG Showbiz)
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