Archive for ‘Health’
Key West Yoga Pass
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
It is very exciting to introduce the Key West Yoga Pass as we enter a new year. This is a unique opportunity to practice yoga and attend fitness and dance classes at 9 different locations in Key West and the Lower Florida Keys, all on one class card. What a great way to experience the variety of yoga and teachers we have here in our island community.
$75 gets you 5 classes to use at any of these locations:
ommPeace Yoga & Massage Therapy
Looking forward to seeing you on the mat in this new year. May it be a happy, healthy, and joy filled year for you.
Tags: community, Florida Keys, Health, Key West, Yoga
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Karma Kitchen
Saturday, November 5th, 2011
Check out this great video on KarmaTube.com. It’s about a pay-it-forward restaurant, Karma Kitchen, with locations in Chicago, IL, Wash, DC, and Berkeley, CA. I love the idea of a gift economy. So inspiring to see that it has been working for 4 years, and counting…and can’t wait to see more things like it come about.
Tags: dharma, gift, gratitude, karma, offerings, pay-it-forward
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Time to Meditate
Monday, March 7th, 2011
I was sent this blurb today in an email from the Key West Tara Mandala, our local Tibetan Buddhist community. I ended up reading the whole article because I often find myself in the position the author describes, feeling like I just don’t have enough time for my daily meditation. The blurb reads,
Tags: consciousness, meditation, offerings
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Wisdom of sharing gratitude
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
This was sent to me by a friend, and comes from the website DailyGood.org. I truly believe in the power of sharing gratitude and being grateful, and now it is linked to our health.
“The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have. –Leonard Nimoy
Fact of the Day:
A recent Harvard Business School study found that giving a sum of money to someone else lifted well-being than spending it on oneself. Preventative medicine professor Stephen Post writes that giving to others has been shown to increase health benefits in people with chronic illness. Neuroeconomics researcher Paul Zak found that people who share and experience gratitude release oxytocin, a hormone known to relieve stress and improve immune function. The research is piling up- sharing is good for happiness and health. Why? It builds trust, releases health-boosting hormones, increases positive social interaction with others, and promotes cooperation, and much more.” [ more ]
Tags: gratitude, sharing
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Back in the Keys
Monday, November 1st, 2010
I’m back in Key West. Great time in New Jersey, yet I’m so glad to be home.
I am available for massage, by appointment, starting immediately, throughout the Lower Florida Keys.
Yoga classes resume Monday, November 8th, 8:30am, at Parmer’s Resort on Little Torch Key. Classes will be held Monday and Thursday mornings at 8:30am.
Looking forward to getting back with you all. Click here if you’d like to contact me directly.
Tags: Florida Keys, Key West, massage, Yoga
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Music – good for the whole body
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Today’s “Daily Dream Builder” from Mary Manin Morrisey read,
“Have you ever thought about how every single piece of music is vibration? That’s what sound is. Have you also thought about how your own body resonates with music? It re-sounds. There is a vibration that happens in us that is our own very aliveness responding to music. Today, let’s pick at least one piece of music that feels good to us and listen to it. Our body really can read that sound and it actually affects us at a cellular level. It increases our immune system and we become different in the presence of really great music. Just listen to some good music and notice how your vibration, your energy, is different.”
So, today, whether you are hanging out, working out, meditating, cooking, sewing, driving, showering, whatever, do it with some music in the background and take notice to how it invites positive vibrations into your being. Effective physically, mentally, and emotionally. Remember, too, that you can create your own sound through chanting, which is also proven to increase the vibration within our cells, strengthen our immune system and balance our energies.
The Table and The Mat
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
What a great article I just read in the most recent issue of Massage & Bodywork Magazine, entitled “The Table and The Mat – The Union of Bodywork with Yoga.” If you are a fan of either massage or yoga, or are just curious about them, this is a great article focusing on the healing facets of both, and how beneficial they are when used together. It speaks of how yoga and massage may assist us in moving through limitations: physical, emotional, and mental. This resonates clearly with me and my practice. Enjoy the read!
Finding Focus
Monday, April 12th, 2010
This week has been a great one. 10 straight days of out-of-town visitors and a week-long birthday celebration, ending in a fantastically fun party last night. When I sat down on the mat for yoga practice this morning, I was thrilled to be able to focus on just that, my practice. This time where nothing matters except for what’s happening at the moment. The breath flowing in and out of the body, the lengthening of muscles, the release of physical tension, the opportunity to be present. Today, there was no place else I wanted to be. And to then be able to share it with others on a beautiful Florida Keys morning, teaching to a class of 8. Who could ask for more? Setting an intention for the day, the tone for the week, and allowing it to come into focus through time on the mat. I love beginning the week this way.
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