“No Body Likes a “Crampy”… I mean “Crabby” Athlete! Your hydration levels may be the culprit of your poor performance, and let’s be honest, if you’re feeling more than just muscle cramps (perhaps mental cramps) and poor perforamce; drink more water so you can go the ultra distance.” As an ultra runner, I have been [...]
In mid-June, YYoga is set to open the doors of their new Kitsilano studio. In a controversial move, the new location on 4th ave and Cypress is just 3 blocks down from the neighbourhood’s longstanding and much loved Semperviva studio. YYoga facilities will include: This 8,000 sqft center will feature two yoga rooms, including a 1,600 [...]
Cliff Harvey (ND, Dip.Fit, HbT, Adv.Psych-K, Reiki lll) is a Naturopath, author and speaker specialising in holistic performance nutrition and mind-body-spirit medicine. He teaches people how to give themselves the chemical building blocks of health (great nutrition) and how to integrate new patterns of behaviour and actions to achieve their life, health and performance goals. [...]
I am quite selective about the comics I follow, most being too mindless and derivative, though I am up to share from one of them today. One series I follow is that of Atomic Robo; a sentient robot constructed by Nikola Tesla in the 1920s. He fights inter-dimensional formless beings, talking dinosaurs, and walking pyramids. [...]
“WALK IN HER SHOES NATIONAL CAMPAIGN” IN VANCOUVER – STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORLD’S WOMEN Are you walking on May 20th? Vancouver – ” Walk In Her Shoes Campaign” team leader and founder of RUN4ACAUSE pledges to” Run 101km in Her Shoes” on May 20th 2012, supporting of CARE Canada. To help break [...]
There’s a new yoga studio in Vancouver that combines yoga and food! Che Baba Cantina & Yoga Studio effortlessly marries southern French and Mediterranean-inspired fine dining with Hatha yoga: Che Baba’s yoga studio opened where Kingsway and Fraser connect in November, its cantina, which is linked by a corridor, at the end of December. It’s [...]
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Structural Integration has been a growing interest in North America. It’s roots stem from European descent; an evolutionary brain child of the fascial work seen in Dr Ida Rolf, the movement insights of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais and the whole-systems geometry of B. Fuller and many other influences. Amongst, those influenced is the widely known works [...]
Join us at Hari Om Yoga in Langley (www.hariomyoga.com) this Friday and Saturday for two fun, low-cost events! Tomorrow night, Friday, April 20, finish your week off right with “Shine on You Crazy Diamond! Yoga and Pink Floyd!” from 8pm-9:30pm, for only $10+hst! Rock, roll, move and bend to your favourite Pink Floyd tunes. No previous [...]
For the past week and a half I have been re-experiencing the same physical breakdowns that have plagued my ultra running for nearly 2 years. These include: Left hip hike (also known as lumbo-pelvic dysfunction) Left side – minor referral in the SI Joint and glutes Left side- dislocation of T2, T8 and T10 Right [...]
