the power and benefit of exercise has been extolled in another article today. It seems a simple formula, aerobic for heart, strength for muscle and energy and stretches for flexibility and don't forget balancing workouts ( Read more... )

 So when you are well it is easy to be on one's own. At least I think so. That changes when you get sick. Thank goodness for my family and close friends. Not sure how I would have done it without the support.  I thank you all in my mind and my heart. 

I haven't posted for a while because I just don't want to talk about my long and protracted recovery ( Read more... )

 The body wants to return to its natural state of balance and health, but sometimes it loses the way. In my case it happened quickly and forcefully and also slowly and gradually and I have been taking time to get back to my state of health and happiness ( Read more... )

 Towards the end of my hospital stay, I would get up from my bed, trailing a movable coat rack like structure, to which was attached all the various bags that sustained and medicated me. I wanted to get out of the room and see what the hospital hallway looked like. My sister who came by every day to see me, sometime twice a day, helped me go out of ( Read more... )

Yoga as a metaphor for life. Sometime in yoga you fall, I've fallen doing the warrior pose, and I've stumbled doing the tree pose. Sometimes in life you fall.  A metaphorical fall, that is. I got sick, and had to give myself over to a hospital's care for a couple of weeks. It turned out I had what they call a ruptured duodenum. To make matters ( Read more... )

 At some point my basement was finished. There was a shelf for me to play my yoga dvd's and on the opposite wall mirrors allowed for adjustment of yoga poses. Once I saw my moves reflected back at me, I made a few changes in my routine. I stretched a little taller, bent forward further, twisted longer and generally used the immediate feedback of ( Read more... )

 It took a number of weekends of sorting, removing, donating and organizing, sweeping and dusting to get the basement to the point where I could have some one come in and give me an idea on what it would take to finish it. After having done some looking into what could go in to the basement, thankfully it was dry, I decided to call in a company ( Read more... )

 Where I do my practice has an impact on how I do my practice. I had been doing my yoga in Burlington in my bedroom, and really there was not a lot of room to accommodate all the poses, nor did it provide me with the surroundings helpful in clearing my mind. However doing yoga in my bedroom was better than not doing yoga at all. I found my practice ( Read more... )

 My routine in Ottawa then became biking in the non winter months and morning yoga from November to April. During lunch, exercise classes ( Read more... )