New Zealand win the tug-of-war with Queensland for the services of Sam Kasiano after the Canterbury prop is named in the Kiwis squad to face Australia on October 13.

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Kangaroos coach Tim Sheens is happy with the Australia line-up, despite several big names being unavailable due to injury.

THEY are known as league's hardest men yet the Kiwis hope Bikram Yoga will be their secret weapon when they face Australia in tropical Townsville next week.

In a locked room sweltering with 40C heat, Kiwi stars such as halfback Shaun Johnson and captain Simon Mannering last week contorted their bodies into the "Eagle", "Half Tortoise" and "Wind Removing Pose".

Bikram Yoga is a 90-minute stretching routine consisting of 26 poses and two breathing exercises in a hot room. The Auckland session left the Kiwi training group light-headed and in awe of their instructor.

The unique drill was the brainchild of Kiwi league legend-turned team trainer Ruben Wiki, who said it was one of the toughest exercises he had done.

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Not content with stretching the players to their limits, Wiki sent the group back to the Auckland yoga studio two days later to do traditional footy drills - still in 40C heat.

"Yoga is tough bro," Wiki said.

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We've all heard the term "the yoga butt!" It's the perfect perk backside of yoga-practicing gals that is a status symbol in the yoga world (and beyond).

Now, the coveted yoga butt is taking a back seat to the yoga core - firm, toned abs that are the envy of all on and off the mat. I am starting to seethe just thinking about those flat-bellied ladies in my class.

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Well, help is on the way. Yoga guru Rodney Yee has created Gaiam's Core Centered Yoga DVD. He and his wife, Colleen Saidman, both of whom are rock stars in the yoga world, invited Healthy Hollywood to sample a few of their core-centric moves. Let's just say I was off and running to my mat before the word "ready."

"When we are looking at core-centered yoga, it's not only a different take on yoga, but it really is a different take on how we look at the core," reveals Rodney to Healthy Hollywood. "A lot of people in this society just want that six-pack, but in fact the core houses the vital organs. It is also the aspect of the lower back where a lot of us have problems. So not only does the core have to be strong, but it has to be fluid and coordinated with the legs and arms and these are things that haven't been considered," Yee adds.

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First of all, Yee's approach to a better core isn't a series of fast-paced yoga poses. Most of the abs movement he showed the class were slow and deliberate and really got you tuned into feeling your abdominals. "To build strength you need movement. So, it's not just holding a pose. It's more about micro-movements during a pose. We want to be in sync with the core to build strength through fluid alignment and mindfulness."

A few of Yee's favorite core-building yoga moves are the boat pose, side bends and backbends. But, his wife, Colleen believes a simple mountain pose (stand with big toes touching, weight evenly balance on both feet and hang arms by your side) is a great core conditioner. "If you stand in mountain pose and take thumbs to armpit and lift front of the arm pits and chest. Be sure to engage tailbone, the abs and you get the back bone and the length of the waist and just stand there with that kind of integrity could be your one shot deal."

For more on the Core Centered Yoga DVD, check out http://www.gaiam.com.

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Established, Los Angeles-Based Career and Life Coach, Daisy Swan, Provides Readers with Inspirational Stories and Practical Tools for Career Transition

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 02, 2012

In the book, Daisy Swan reveals the path to success as she provides practical advice and shares stories of career coaching clients of all ages, in varied industries and lines of work. These clients representing the four LifeStages (http://www.daisyswan.com/career-coaching/life-stage-overview/) Daisy has identified as Beginning, Roadblock, Authenticity, and Wisdom have all successfully transitioned into satisfying new work situations that the reader can also find.

I know all about the hurdles to finding or creating a life of fulfilling work, says Daisy Swan, MA, CPCC, founder of Los Angeles-based career and life coaching firm, Daisy Swan & Associates. We work with clients who are in tricky situations those looking to make a career transition, or those who are facing unemployment or are underemployed. In all cases, everyone wants to figure out how best to manage this time of change. My work with clients demystifies the process of knowing and finding their purposewhat they want. Clients want work that really fits with who they are work that gives them a life, not just a living. We all work best when our work authentically resonates with us.

Making Work Work: Secrets from a Career Coach's Office has already garnered praise from a number of Daisy Swans esteemed colleagues. Randall Williams, former Director of the Career Center at the University of California Riverside, and former Director of the Graduate School of Management Career Center, University of California Irvine, says, this book is filled with interesting real life examples, excellent career planning resources, and targeted exercises designed to help guide you toward that ideal job! The advice is simple yet at the same time very profound.

Keith Vaughn, Interim Executive Director of the Career Resource Center, and Assistant Dean of MBA Admissions at The Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, adds, Swan offers straight-forward advice with just the right amount of compassion from an experienced career coachthis is a useful guide to help you make a successful transition from where you are to the place you want to be.

Making Work Work: Secrets from a Career Coach's Office provides the reader with support and motivation through thought-provoking exercises, suggestions of simple actions to take, and valuable resources. As Daisy notes, Ive talked with so many people who tell me they just dont have a clue how to even begin to make a career change. I wrote this book for them. This process can lead to a sometimes surprising, but decidedly enriching life that includes work that works for the individual. This book is an inside peek at the process that I undertake with my private coaching clients, in a unique format that empowers the reader to grab the reins of their own career, to make a transition if they want, and to find what it is that will satisfy them most.

Daisy continues, Weve all heard the statistics that vary depending on the source about how the average American changes jobs anywhere from seven to ten times in their prime working years. Never have these numbers rung truer than in todays economy and job market. This book is meant as an added tool for those millions of job-changers out there, who are seeking professional guidance and support in their life and career transition.

Daisy Swan, career strategist, coach and counselor, has worked with hundreds of clients over the past 20 years. Known for her forbearing yet straightforward approach, Daisy guides her clients to clarify their career direction, and supports them as they find and take the necessary steps to realize their professional and personal goals.

Daisy has been a career professional in private practice for 15 years, serving a broad population of senior executives, attorneys, sales and IT professionals, writers, producers, actors and new grads. Daisy has extensive interviewing and recruiting experience and is knowledgeable about a wide variety of business sectors, nationwide.

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The other day I looked at the dates of my early postings. I was late some weeks, posting after eight or nine days, then Id catch up by posting every five days. By my one-year anniversary, I had my act together and began posting every Monday without fail. Sometimes Id post at 11:35 pm, but I always made it. Last year I established a concrete deadline where I post by 3:00 every Monday afternoon. Currently, Im ahead of schedule, writing and then posting articles to appear at a later date.

Ive come a long way.

Accomplishing worthwhile goals isnt easy. Along the way to achieving what you seek, there may be complications. One can get easily discouraged and wonder why they decided to pursue the track they chose to follow in the first place. However, if you take the time to both celebrate accomplishments along the way to your ultimate goal, and honor yourself by giving yourself a chance to enjoy other aspects of your life, it helps to make the process not appear insurmountable. - from an article by Career Coach Tony Calabrese on Selfgrowth.com

One-year anniversaries dont mean much to me. One year could be a fluke, but not seven. A seven-year commitment doesnt happen by accident. Finding a home for myself within a niche gives me a sense of security as a writer. To know Ive committed for seven years, poured time, energy and attention into it. Without a doubt, I know I can and will continue on.

While Im celebrating seven years of officially writing the life coaching column, I know this work didnt just come out of nowhere. Ive been writing about self-acceptance and success since I was a 16 year old lying on my bed scribbling in a diary almost two and a half decades ago. But I was not conscious of what I was doing. In the words of Ansen Dibell, I spent the last seven years bringing my unconscious craft under greater conscious control.

Recognizing that 20 years have passed since a graduation or that you have been married for 10 years or that you have been working for a company for 20 years allows you to think through all that you have accomplished in that time. It is also an opportunity to take stock and think about what you would like to do differently in the future. - from an article by Art Markman on psychologytoday.com.

Im proud of this achievement and Im basking as Martin Seligman urges us to do in Authentic Happiness. This seven-year anniversary was not given to me, I earned it. Spending hours on end searching for books. Interviewing experts and examining my own life for hidden lessons. Writing and writing and writing. Fighting with articles that just wouldnt work. Abandoning some, only to revive them later.

Its been a journey.

Another thing I discovered through this practice was that my fears of stopping to celebrate would result in settling or lack of motivation to move forward were unfounded. Quite the opposite resulted. I got to enjoy the NOW, feel a heck of a lot better about myself, and build a track record for future successI could trust in and rely on myself. from Paula Gregorowiczs blog on Blogher.com

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01-10-2012 05:32 Please click on my fan page link 🙂 Hello ! how are you? I am on here to try to help everyone eat better and exercise If you need any help with that email me or call 1 (607) 483-8445 please do notforget to eat raw organic fruit (focusing on the fruit) vegetables (especially dark leafy greens) nuts and seeds and exercise two hours or two miles (walking) a day everyday huge hugs remember you are loved huge hugs dedicating all my videos to my mom who passed on to Heaven April 24, 2012 She will be enormously missed. my heart is happy my soul is free my love for you still stands strong freedom is the answer from far beyond time will change people will see that the answer is nature and natural and that life is to be clean to be happier molding one person at a time will make a happier place for us all. no one has all the answers but the key is to try and be what you were meant to be in the first place stand for what you believe in and go after it full circle love binds us and entwines us as one.... Happiness can be achieved if you follow your chosen dream love JuneMarie P. Liddy

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29-09-2012 00:55 There is obviously a few missing on this small shelf but here is a list below of authors I rate. I will probably forget a few and add em in when I remember. If you cut and past the author and subject then you will learn more about them. I have NOT listed book titles, just authors and book subjects. Health. Doug Graham - raw food lifestyle Ruth Heidrich - recovering from breast cancer. John Mc Dougall - weight loss with carbs Rich Roll - from drunk to super fit John McCabe - postitive attitude + vegan living Neil Barnard - reverse diabetes Caldwell Esselstyn - prevent heart disease Geoff Russell - CSIRO perfidy Robert Cheeke - vegan bodybuilding Fred Patenaude - living in costa rica, raw food secrets and controversies CYCLING Training racing with a power meter by Hunter & Allen Anything by Joe Friel (not nutrition but cycling only) Anything by Chris Carmichael

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Partnership with California University of Pennsylvania provides full tuition scholarship

Chandler, AZ (PRWEB) October 02, 2012

This scholarship award, valued at more than $15,000, provides four recipients with full graduate tuition to pursue a Master of Science degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion through NASM and CalUs online education program. The curriculum includes four Internet-based specialization tracks for students: fitness and wellness, performance enhancement and injury prevention, rehabilitation science, and sports psychology.

NASM, the global leader in personal trainer certification, corrective exercise and sports performance training, and CalU have sponsored this scholarship award since 2005. Their goal is to provide active and aspiring health and fitness professionals with opportunities to advance their careers through accredited online bachelors and masters degree programs. Recipients have received more than $300,000 in tuition grants from NASM and CalU since the award was created.

NASM strongly emphasizes academic excellence for professionals who are working to be leaders in the health and fitness, athletic performance and sports medicine industries, said NASM President Andrew Wyant. The Pursuit of Excellence in Health and Fitness Award rewards students who desire to further their education with longtime partner CalU and our industry-leading, online exercise science degree programs.

Dan Cordell, a 2011 recipient, said he made a personal goal to receive the Pursuit of Excellence in Health and Fitness Award after earning the NASM Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certification in 2004. A personal trainer with seven NASM specializations, Cordell completed his bachelors degree in Sports Management-Fitness and Wellness from CalU in 2010. After receiving the Pursuit of Excellence scholarship, he earned his masters degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion in December.

NASM and CalU provided me with a holistic approach to health and fitness that I believe in and enables me to advance professionally, Cordell said. Im engaged in creating health prevention and personal fitness strategies for underserved populations that will increase their fitness and wellness levels. Im grateful for the scholarship and this opportunity to give back to people who want to be healthier and more active.

Applicants for the Pursuit of Excellence in Health and Fitness Award must possess a bachelors degree and have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) for all undergraduate and graduate courses to date; plan to enroll in a CalU online masters degree program for the January 2013 start date; and intend to pursue a primary professional career in the health and fitness industry. Completed application packets for the 2013 Pursuit of Excellence in Health and Fitness Award must be postmarked by Nov. 10, 2012. To learn more or to download an application, visit http://www.NASM.org/pursuitofexcellence.

About NASM

Since 1987, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has been a global leader in providing evidence-based certifications and advanced credentials to health and fitness professionals. In addition to its NCCA-accredited fitness Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certification, NASM offers a progressive career track with access to Advanced Specializations, Continuing Education courses, and accredited Bachelors and Masters Degree programs. The NASM educational continuum is designed to help todays health and fitness professional enhance their career while empowering their clients to live healthier lives. To learn more, visit: http://www.NASM.org or call 1.800.460.NASM.

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02-10-2012 02:14 Arun Jaitley, former Law Minister, has shared a scathing assessment of judges, saying, "Pre-retirement judgements are influenced by post-retirement jobs." BJP chief Nitin Gadkari too suggested a two-year wait should be mandatory for judges after they retire and before they are appointed to judicial commissions or tribunals. Watch full discussion:

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NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Today, the Stable Value Investment Association (SVIA) will kick off the industry associations Fall Forum and Annual Membership Meeting -- Searching for Success: Stable Values Place in Defined Contributions Plan -- in Washington, D.C. at The Fairmont Hotel.

This year, SVIA members will explore the major challenges facing plan sponsors and stable value providers as they work to ensure defined contribution plan participants have sound investment choices that can help them achieve their retirement savings and investing goals, said James King, client portfolio manager, Strategic Relationships, Prudential Retirement. King began his tenure Jan. 1, 2012 as Chairman of the SVIA Board. Prudential Retirement is a business unit of Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU).

King, Bill McCloskey, vice president, Product Management, Prudential Retirement and Robert Tipp, managing director and chief investment strategist for Prudential Fixed Income Management will address the membership during the three-day forum. McCloskey will offer an overview of the stable value market from an insiders view and Tipp will provide members with a global economic outlook for fixed income in investments.

As of June 30, 2012, Prudential Retirement has more than $98 billion in Stable Value retirement account values, including more than $58 billion in Institutional Stand-Alone Third Party Stable Value.

The SVIA is a non-profit industry organization dedicated to educating retirement plan sponsors and participants about the importance of saving for retirement and the contribution stable value funds can make toward achieving retirement security.

"Stable Value is a core competency for Prudential, King added. We're committed to the business and we are delighted to provide a product that helps our clients create retirement stability and security for their participants."

As of December 31, 2011, the SVIA members managed over $646 billion invested in stable value funds by more than 25 million participants. The SVIAs 75 member companies represent all segments of the stable value community, including public and private retirement plan sponsors, and numerous insurance companies, banks, and investment managers.

Stable Value products are issued by either The Prudential Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company (PRIAC), Hartford, Conn., or The Prudential Insurance Company of America (PICA), Newark, N.J. Both are Prudential Financial companies. Each company is solely responsible for its financial condition and contractual obligations. Guarantees are contingent on the claims paying ability of the issuer.

Prudential Retirement delivers retirement plan solutions for public, private, and non-profit organizations. Services include state-of-the-art record keeping, administrative services, investment management, comprehensive employee investment education and communications, and trustee services. With over 85 years of retirement experience, Prudential Retirement helps meet the needs of over 3.6 million participants and annuitants. Prudential Retirement has $244.8 billion in retirement account values as of June 30, 2012.

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