Are you trying to make conscious food choices, eat at home more or increase your variety of foods? It takes daily commitment for several weeks before a new habit becomes automatic behavior. We are all making several decisions daily about what, when and how much we feed ourselves. So choose well and notice how great [...]
Sometimes we find ourselves living in our heads too much. Days can go by where we are so focused on our thoughts, intentions and plans that we forget we even have a body! Our thoughts and emotions exist to help us live a happy, fulfilling life not to rule every moment. Awareness of the body [...]
My interview with Amy Spencer, ERYT of Niralambaya, Windham, NH Amy: Please tell me a little bit about your first introduction to yoga and how that practice has evolved for you? Andrea: I started doing yoga about 15 years ago. I was tired of the gym and wanted to enjoy exercise. Yoga gave me so [...]
>Thank you, Arielle for sharing your story! Check out Nahar Yoga in Derry, NH Flashback: > February 2001. After my first yoga class with Rolf Gates at Baron Baptiste’s studio in Cambridge, MA I felt vibrant, alive, new! Inspired by my inner glow and well being I enthusiastically asked Rolf if there was a suggested [...]
At Holistic Health Services we can help you bring your body systems into balance so that you can feel great physically and emotionally! A holistic approach that addresses the body, mind and spirit gets to the root of the problem. Using a medication to treat a body symptom doesn’t really heal the body. In fact, [...]
Here is a self-care questionnaire I recently came across. Occasionally we all need to be reminded that self-care is important for our physical, mental and emotional well-being. I encourage you to fill out the questionnaire honestly and see which areas need more attention in your life. In the right-hand column, write down the score (from [...]
“Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes are responsible for 75% of the nation’s healthcare spending and 7 out every of 10 deaths in America each year. Yet, as you know, they are often preventable.” (www.medscape.com Kathleen Sebelius, MPA, US secretary of health and human services) Are you going to let a [...]
Women and men both have feminine and masculine sensibilities, personality traits and mental abilities. However, traditionally the masculine powers of assertiveness, confidence and analytical thinking have been thought of as superior for personal and career success. Currently, around the world this type of thinking is changing. More women are becoming successful through their feminine powers [...]
Most of us are careful about how we speak to others, especially our loved ones. We think before we speak, and we hope it comes out right. We want to be kind and show that we understand their point of view. Why are we so gracious to others and so impatient with ourselves? What kind [...]
