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Happy
New Year!
I hope you brought in the new year with family,
friends and good cheer! Are you ready to take
on 2014 and make it your best year yet?!
We've got some new classes this season.
Yoga Dance
at Champlain Heights Community Center creates freedom of expression and a full body workout
combining Yoga, dancing
(Persian and Belly Dancing), and meditation, in one fun and invigorating class.
Begin with a warm up of Yoga postures followed by dance movements and concluding
with a cool down, relaxation, and meditation. This is a great workout
helping to lose weight while increasing stamina. It strengthens and tones
muscles in a fun and pleasurable way. It also helps open up the line of Chakras
(energy centers), inside the body. Everybody is welcome to join, regardless of
their age, level of flexibility or experience.
Meditation - Yoga Nidra at Sunset
Community Center is a
powerful technique in which one learns to consciously relax. The
word nidra is Sanskrit for 'sleep'. A guided meditation
practiced while lying on the floor, an hour of Yoga Nidra
meditation is to the body the equivalent of four hours of
dynamic restful sleep and is an ideal practice for anyone who
would like to feel more connected, improve memory and increase
creativity.
Postnatal Yoga at Kerrisdale Community
Center allows mom time for herself (without her
little one) to regain her pre-pregnant body. The
focus of these classes will be on toning and
restoring strength in the upper body, abdomen and
pelvic floor after child birth, as well as
addressing the emotional needs of the new mom. Meet
other moms in a supportive community environment,
while fostering your own yoga practice, with people
who are experiencing the same developments and
changes you are.
Got wee ones? Consider Baby Sign
Language or Yoga Tots.
We adjusted the time for Weight Loss Yoga at
Champlain Heights to begin at 8:00pm. And we
continue to offer Love Your Body Yoga at Greentree
Village on Wednesday nights and Champlain Heights on
Thursday nights. We've got LOTS of Yoga
classes to offer you and even Pilates. You'll find
all our classes at
www.intoyoga.ca/classes.htm.
Register early for classes to avoid disappointment.
We've been experiencing full classes, but when we
don't have enough people, classes get canceled.
We'd hate to have to turn you away in either event.
Find out what's happening at
www.intoyoga.ca and visit our "Classes" page
often.
You've still got time to kick off January with our
2014 New Year, New You health
campaign. But you have to act TODAY! Effective tips, strategies and loads of
support, along with one of our 30 Day Health and
Longevity Packs will guarantee you results like more
energy, weight loss, better sleep, reduced signs of
aging and a whole lot more. Find out more at
www.intoyoga.ca/healthybody.htm.
Pose of a Child (Balasana)
Benefits:
-relieves
constipation, aids digestion
-relieves tension in back, shoulders and neck
-makes knees more flexible
-stimulates abdominal organs and the nerves in the
back
-strengthens pelvic and leg muscles
-loosens shoulders, spine and hips
-stimulates circulation to the upper body
-strengthens ankles and feet
Instructions:
1.
Sit on your
heels, with feet flat.
2. Exhaling, lower your chest onto your
thighs, resting your forehead on the floor
in front of your knees.
3. Bring your arms back, palms up, beside
your legs, so your hands rest by your feet.
4. Remain in this position for as long as
you like.
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The Problem with Juicing and
Juice Fasts
There’s no shortage of diet fads
out there for losing weight quickly. Juicing and
juice fasting is one that has been around for a
while—its premise being to consume fresh-squeezed
juice from fruits and vegetables daily or
exclusively for a day or up to 10 days or more.
However, a recent study in the British Medical
Journal found that people who consumed fruit in
the form of juices (more than three glasses of fruit
juice a week) actually increased their risk of
developing type 2 diabetes by 8 percent, while those
who consumed their fruit whole lowered their risk of
developing type 2 diabetes by 2 percent.
The problem is that the process of juicing
extracts the nutrients and water from a vegetable or
fruit and leaves behind the fibrous pulp. While the
act of squeezing out some of the good stuff in
fruits and vegetables—antioxidants, vitamins,
minerals, etc.—screams healthy elixir, this
processing also removes the nutrient-rich skin along
with healthy fiber and a substantial amount of
vitamins and minerals. There is also one other major
caveat: sugar is squeezed out, too.
Depending on what fruits and vegetables are
chosen to juice, the sugar content can climb pretty
high. Without the fiber to slow down absorption,
drinking the juice can send blood sugar levels
spiking and crashing, leading to feelings of extreme
hunger, irritability, and fatigue.
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here to learn more about Isagenix products or to
purchase products at retail. Or contact
info@intoyoga.ca for more information about how
you can save 30% or more on products.
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Yoga Poses to Establish
Your Routine
www.onlineyogaguide.com
Practicing yoga poses means transforming the
body’s stress, anxiety, ill health, unhappiness and
anger into a peacefulness and energetic form of
health. Yoga is a good way of relaxation because it
can relieve the tension in your body and mind
without experiencing tiredness and overexertion.
Yoga poses provides flexibility, reinforces the
muscles and even decreases fat build-up and also
develops the circulation of blood and performance of
specific organs in your body. There are a wide range
of yoga poses that can aid a person to achieve a
high level of self-awareness, steadiness, and
strength.
For practicing yoga poses, you need to
concentrate on your body and mind. Yoga poses will
recover your health and enhance your quality of
life.
Let’s look at a few simple poses and the way to
do them. Click
here
to see the series of poses, benefits and more.
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Baby Stuff
Hilarious baby videos.
Enjoy!
Laughing Babies
Baby Accidents
Funny Babies
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Chocolate Tapioca Pudding
(serves 8)
View Original Recipe
www.vegetariantimes.com
In this recipe, granulated tapioca thickens
chocolate soymilk into a luscious pudding without
the addition of flour or eggs. Granulated tapioca
cooks up smaller and smoother than pearl tapioca, so
the pudding may just win over avowed tapioca pudding
haters.
Ingredients
-
1 qt. chocolate soymilk
-
1/8 tsp. salt
-
1/4 cup quick-cooking granulated tapioca,
such as Let’s Do…Organic
-
2/3 cup gluten-free vegan chocolate chips,
such as Enjoy Life
Preparation
Bring soymilk and salt to a simmer in
medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in tapioca,
and reduce heat to low. Cook at a low simmer 20 to
25 minutes, or until tapioca is transparent and
pudding begins to thicken. Remove from heat, and
stir in chocolate chips until melted. Cool
completely before serving.
Nutritional Information per 1/2 cup Serving:
- Calories: 159
- Protein: 3 g
- Total Fat: 6 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Carbohydrates: 26 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
- Sodium: 89 mg
- Fiber: 2 g
-
Sugar: 15 g
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Yoga/Pilates & Nutritional Cleanse
Seminars at Work
We're passionate about bringing Yoga and Pilates
into the work place. For people who feel the demand
and stress at work, don't have time to make it to a Yoga
studio, or just simply want to take some time for
themselves, Into Yoga has the answer for you.
Our certified professional instructors will come on
site at lunch, or before or after work and teach classes
right at the work place.
Be the coordinator of your office Yoga classes and
you'll receive your classes for free if there are at least
10 participants. We'll also give you $100 cash for
any referrals that book 10 or more classes with us,
including your own company! That means we'll actually PAY YOU to take
the classes!
Find out more at
www.intoyoga.ca/corporate.htm
or call 604.421.9872 or email
info@intoyoga.ca to
book classes now.
Why not add one of our FREE Nutritional Cleanse
Seminars
at work too? Find out how you can gain and
maintain your optimal health through a combination of
meal replacement shakes, regular meals and a cleansing
drink, to help give your body the healthy look and feel
you've been striving for. It's easy to get started,
just email
sheri@cleanseyourbody.ca or call me at
604.421.9872. We'll even bring some samples for you to
try.
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We Want Your Feedback
Have you experienced classes with us before?
If so, we'd like to hear from you. The good
and the bad. Tell us what you like. How
have they improved your life? What keeps you
coming back?
Plus tell us what we could do better (but be
gentle). What can we improve and what would
you like to see that we're not providing?
Email your comments to
info@intoyoga.ca.
We're listening.
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