Archive for March, 2012
Pilates party
Posted: March 26, 2012 at 3:59 am
Resolve to be Healthy party in support of Dodson House, presented by Connect Fitness, Thursday, April 5 at 7: 30 p.m. at Milestones at Park Royal Shopping Centre, West Vancouver. Admission: Free. Guests encouraged to order off the menu. Raffle tickets: $10. RSVP: chrissy@connectfitness.com. Info: http://www.connectfitness.com.
CHRISSY Ramstead knows a thing or two about healthy living.
The personal trainer and pilates instructor is the founder of Connect Fitness, a mobile fitness company offering personal and group training, and pilates classes to primarily female clients on the North Shore, Burnaby and Vancouver.
In January, the company launched an initiative entitled 12 Weeks of 2012: Resolve to be Healthy.
"We encouraged our clientele to make healthy choices in their life for 12 weeks," says Ramstead, a North Vancouver resident.
Each week, Connect posted a YouTube video and sent out its link to clients, presenting a different health tip, from using measurements rather than the scale to monitor weight loss, to cleaning out your kitchen.
The initiative was well-received and to celebrate its success, as well as the positive changes made by those who followed along, Ramstead and her fellow Connect Fitness trainers are inviting community members to a Resolve to be Healthy party April 5 at 7: 30 p.m. at Milestones in West Vancouver.
"We want to just invite the entire community, anybody who just loves health or wants to be healthy, we just want to invite them to join us in a celebration," she says. "It's totally just an open, happy, healthy celebration."
Proceeds from the event will support members of C3Church Vancouver with their visits to Dodson House in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The congregation prepares a monthly healthy meal for residents. "I have a real heart for the city and just seeing people be healthy and happy, so to join with them, for me, is to go to that place in the city where people's health has been neglected way too long," says Ramstead.
The fundraiser is an opportunity for people on the North Shore, who are "quite able to make choices and spend money on living healthfully to actually give to that community that could use a little bit of health," she adds.
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BUSINESS Q&A: Woman aims at balancing mind, body and soul with yoga instruction
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Photo by Justin Zamudio
B. Ramadoss rests upside down while holding a pose during an afternoon yoga class at Concho Yoga, 227 N. Main St., last week. Ramadoss was supported by a chair as his shoulders held up most of his weight on a pillow.
Photo by Justin Zamudio
Photos by Justin Zamudio/San Angelo Standard-Times Women participate in an afternoon yoga class instructed by Stacie Jones of Concho Yoga, 227 N. Main St., last week. Jones primarily holds her classes at the North Main Street location, but also holds sessions at other locations for beginner and advanced participants.
What: Yoga classes and private lessons.
When: Class times vary.
Where: 227 N. Main St., Suite C.
More information: 325-370-2942 or http://www.concho-yoga.com.
SAN ANGELO, Texas Each week, yoga instructor Stacie Jones visits various studios to teach multiple classes at affordable prices just so San Angelo can experience mind-body health.
Fourteen years before Jones became owner of Concho Yoga, she was a single mom searching for inexpensive ways to stay in shape. Jones had always been athletic but couldn't afford a gym membership, she said, so when a church friend and yoga instructor invited her to try a class, Jones jumped at the opportunity.
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Yoga part of 12-step program at Kenai facility
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by Jerzy Shedlock / Peninsula Clarion Fairbanks Daily News Miner
"I had read about and personally experienced the therapeutic benefits of yoga and decided to explore yoga as an option for our residents," said Bower in an email.
Serenity House is part of Central Peninsula Hospital's behavioral health services. The center offers recovery goals and ongoing support to clients through its 12-step program. It has a wide range of services to help people recover from alcoholism and drug abuse.
A local yoga-studio owner leads a group of the program's clients twice weekly in a restorative yoga class, which focuses on relaxation and stress management rather than the physical aspects regularly associated with the practice.
Long-held postures aided by props, such as blankets, blocks and straps, allow the participants to turn inward, focusing on breathing and calming the mind, said Kelsey Cusack, owner of Yoga Sol.
She said she's heard restorative yoga referred to as an organized nap.
"It's soothing, not nearly as physically demanding as some more traditional styles of yoga," she said. "People spend most of the class either sitting or lying down."
Restorative yoga triggers the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS); responsible for balancing the body and bringing its response system back to equilibrium. Stimulating the PNS helps lower heart rate and blood pressure, and it stimulates the immune system, she said.
Researchers are studying restorative yoga. Dr. Suzanne C. Danhauer of Wake Forest University's School of Medicine conducted a pilot study about the health benefits of restorative yoga on women diagnosed with ova rian or breast cancer. The majority of women were undergoing cancer treatment at the time of enrollment for the study. Danhauer concluded significant improvements were seen for depression, anxiety, mental health and overall quality of life.
Bower said she sent a request to various yoga instructors in the Kenai Peninsula, and Cusack was the sole responder. Cusack offered her studio for less than half her normal rate and volunteered to provide an additional lesson at Serenity House. She has taught about two months of classes.
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Auriemma On Coaching Kids These Days
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I asked Geno Auriemma on Saturday whether coaching 17-year-old girls was different now then it was 10 years ago, when he was young, perhaps filled with more energy, etc.
I have less patience for these guys now than I did when I was 30-something, Auriemma said. I used to try and see things from their standpoint. Now I am like a lot of old people [he is 58] that dont really give a crap about anybody but themselves.
Have you ever been to a place where I am signing autographs? Well, there will be nine 8-year-olds in line and some 75-year-old will just knock the kids over to get an autograph. Theyll just bulldoze the kids thinking you know what, Im 75 and I dont have much time left and you have the rest of your life so get out of my way.
Im getting to an age where I have less patience. Ive been doing this for 30 years and if I do something, then do it. Dont look at me and ask why. When I was 35, I would say OK and then explain why we want to do [something]. So is there a difference in me? Yes, I guess I just have less patience and they have less of an attention span. That is not a good combination.
Im trying to teach them to have more patience, better concentration for longer periods of time. And theyre testing my patience.
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Hallsville makes coaching change
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By Rus Baer
Sunday, March 25, 2012
John Morris was hired in May of 2005 to build a high school football program at Hallsville.
After almost seven years laying the foundation, the 38-year coaching veteran was voted out of his coaching and administration position last month by a 4-3 vote of the school board.
"My career has consisted of starting programs, restarting programs and putting life back into programs," Morris said. "Sometimes you have to make decisions that aren't the most popular in the world, but they're the best for the program.
"I don't do politics. I do what I think is right and make decisions on what I think is right, and if there are negative consequences, then I accept those consequences."
In four varsity seasons, the Indians won only one district game against winless Southern Boone in 2008 and compiled an 8-32 mark. The past two seasons, Hallsville finished 3-7 after winless district slates against state-ranked powers Centralia, Macon and Brookfield.
With the playoff format changing next season and Hallsville moving to the Tri-County Conference, Morris was looking forward to the next step of the Indians' excavation.
"The thing that upsets me more than anything else is I poured my life into this thing, and we were coming," Morris said. "We were getting close.
"Even if I'm the only one that thinks so, I think I've built a hell of a foundation for a pretty good program."
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Kaiser Chiefs get up close and personal in Vancouver
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Date: Sunday Mar. 25, 2012 4:32 PM PT
Back in the U.K., their home country, Kaiser Chiefs routinely play arenas. When it comes to their hometown, Leeds, they've even played to 35,000 worshiping fans at the local soccer stadium. This made last night's concert in the cosy confines of Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom an up close and personal chance for Anglophile indie rock fans of the Lower Mainland to see one of the biggest British bands of the past decade.
Certainly an affection for, or at least an understanding of British culture, appears to be a prerequisite for Kaiser Chiefs' fandom. Unlike universally accessible artists like Coldplay or Adele, the Chiefs' songs are set in a particular English urban landscape where "tea" is a meal and "lairy" is a state of mind.
Whether Kaiser Chiefs' lyrical nuances were clear to everyone, it appeared that the vast majority of last night's crowd (a fair proportion of whom welcomed the band by wearing either Whitecaps, Manchester United or Leeds United soccer shirts) had a reasonable grasp of what singer Ricky Wilson was banging on about, as he led his band through a 16-song set that tested the very limits of the Commodore's famously springy floorboards.
It would come as no surprise if the band insisted on playing the Commodore on the basis of floor quality alone. Eight years since their rise to prominence, they remain Britain's bounciest band, carving out choruses that practically beg audiences to take to the sky while singing their lungs out.
Of course, this is rarely subtle. The band kicked off its set with "Every Day I Love You Less and Less" and "Never Miss a Beat," two high-velocity pop bullets aimed directly at the dance floor. On the radio, they're quirky, amiable bursts of indie pop. Through the Commodore's massive speaker cabinets, they were instant anthems, practically begging the crowd to leap into a gently good-tempered moshpit.
The chief cheerleader throughout was Wilson, who delivered a high-energy performance utterly lacking in self-restraint or pretension. By the time the band delivered "Everything is Average Nowadays" four songs in, Wilson was climbing and singing from on top of the security barriers. He leapt from the stage at the beginning of "Kinda Girl You Are" and ran around the venue to one of the Commodore's four bars, at which point he jumped onto the counter, ordered a shot of Bushmills and downed it in one.
"We are the Kaiser Chiefs!" he bellowed into his mic as the rest of the band watched for his next move from the stage. "We have been sent here to entertain you! We will not rest until you are entertained!"
This is Kaiser Chiefs' simple ethos. They're not political. They're not intellectual. They simply deliver a relentless stream of what the British like to call Terrace Anthems, songs that get lodged in the brain and can be sung back at high volume by large groups at the slightest provocation. That's exactly what songs like "Ruby," "Na Na Na Na Na" and "I Predict a Riot" (gratefully introduced without any reference to Vancouver's recent embarrassment) are designed to produce. And that's exactly what happened.
The ultimate bouncefest was saved until last with "Oh My God" sending the crowd into the Granville Street night sweaty and smiling. Not all of them would have picked up all the band's lyrical references, but no one appeared to be complaining.
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