Yoga Props Workout Ideas
Posted: June 8, 2012 at 3:17 am
Yoga Mat Lateral Plank Hops - Get down into a pushup plank position then walk the feet in a bit and bend the knees making sure to keep the back flat like a tabletop. Jump the feet off the mat to the right then over the mat to the left then over the mat to the right and keep going. This is an excellent fat burning cardio workout and improves shoulder and core stability.
Yoga Mat Lateral Leap w/Balance - Stand on one end of your mat with feet pointing towards the long end of the mat. Bend the knees slightly and leap to the other side landing on outer foot with knee bent and hovering the opposite heel off the floor to balance for 1-2 seconds then leap to the other side and balance for 1-2 seconds. This is great for cardio and balance plus works your core and entire lower body.
Yoga Block Single Leg Reach - Place a yoga block a few feet in front of one foot then bend the opposite leg to raise the opposite foot behind you and balance on the supporting leg (keeping the knee soft helps). Slowly bend from the hip of the supporting leg and reach forward to touch the block. This works your core, glutes, hamstrings, inner and outer thighs and lower back.
Yoga Strap Bodyweight Row - Place a resistance band door attachment on your door and loop your yoga strap around it and stand facing the door holding the yoga strap with arms extended and palms down. Bend the elbows and squeeze shoulder blades to row your body towards the door then release back. This is the poor man's suspension trainer and works the arms and upper back. It can also work the legs if you add a squat before the row.
You can perform 10-12 reps of each exercise and do them in a circuit 3 times for a quick fat burning full body cardio and strength workout. You can also pair the exercises and go back and forth 3-4 times the move on to the next pair. Check out the slideshow to see the exercises.
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Yoga fests continue to grow, as Boulder's Hanuman Festival kicks off second year
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Colorado yoga festivals
Colorado is a hotspot for some of the nation's most popular yoga festivals. Here are a few of the offerings.
Hanuman Festival -- hanumanfestival.com, today through Sunday, in Boulder on the lawn next to Boulder High School and parallel to Boulder Creak.
Yoga Rocks the Park -- yogarocksthepark.com, kicked off June 1 and runs 9:30 a.m. every Saturday morning in June and July on the Boulder Public Library lawn.
Wanderlust -- wanderlustfestival.com, July 5-8, at the Copper Mountain Resort.
Telluride Yoga Fest -- tellurideyogafestival.com, July 12-15, Telluride.
Mountain Pose Festival -- villageatcopper.com/mountain-pose-yoga-festival, Aug. 22-26, Copper Mountain.
She was drawn to the excitement, the celebration and the heightened energy that was almost palpable when a group of like-minded people got together to party with live music.
Now in her late 30s, Rodwin still digs that energy. But her life is different. She is married. She doesn't drink. She's a vegetarian, and she is all about her health.
She's still a festival girl at heart -- only now, she rocks a different kind of party: about health, community, service and self-connection, centered around yoga and that live music that she enjoys so much.
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Hi-tech shirt 'nudges' you into the right yoga positions
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electricfoxy.com
By Melissa Dahl
When your triangle pose is not quite triangular enough, you might be used to the guiding hand of a yoga instructor to help gently move you into place. Buthow would you feel about getting an electronic "nudge," or buzz, when you're out of alignment?
A new concept for a high-tech shirt intended for use during yoga (and other activities based on precise movements, like Pilates, baseball or golf) is equipped with sensors that can tell when your movements are out of whack; it'll send you buzzing, electo-hints until you correct yourself. It's currently in development from a company called Electricfoxy. Here's how the company's site describes the product:
Haptic feedback embedded in the hips of the garment give you subtle "taps" on the side that needs adjusting. Continue to modify your move until you perform it correctly. Correct movement ensures better performance, faster improvement, and helps keep you from injury.
The "wearable technology garment," as Electrofoxy insists on calling it, syncs with a mobile app that will save and track your progress on getting your movements right. For precision-based activities like baseball or golf, the smart shirt might be a handy tool to create a better swing of the club or bat. But for yoga, while it's true that the ability to practice your yoga poses at home while still nailing the precision part of it would be helpful, there's also something that also feels a little ... offabout the whole thing, said some yoga instructors we spoke to.
At first glance, Seattle yoga instructor Ellen Boyle's reaction was a big "NO!" Boyle, who teaches at Seattle Yoga Arts in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood, worries that the device would disrupt the fluid connection yoga helps to forge between your physical body and your internal, spiritual self. If you're always waiting for that little buzz, that's a different type of "awareness" than what yoga is meant to teach.
"And it kinda freaks me out a bit," Boyle admits. "It would make me anxious to be constantly anticipating the 'nudge' in my practice rather than relying on my own sense feeling."
Laurice Nemetz, co-president of the Yoga Teachers Association, a non-profit educational organization, worries that students might risk injury by trying to push themselves into the correct position, whether or not their body is actually capable of doing so.And for others, "in a society with body-image issues, this app might feed into those obsessive issues, instead of helping them," Nemetz says. Still, she says she'd be curious to give the app a try.
"This app may prove useful for physical therapy rehab and be an interesting tool, but I hesitate with something that would replace human-to-human feedback," Nemetz says. "Health is far more important to me and my clients' movement than the attitude that implies. The work of yoga, Pilates, etc., is both science and art."
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Back to Life, Back to Reality: Seattle Sounders Hammer Cal FC 5-0 in Open Cup
Posted: June 7, 2012 at 12:18 pm
The Gift of Stoppage Time author thinks it may be time to give Cal FC coach and FOX Soccer Analyst Eric Wynalda his shot at the big-time.
The most entertaining moment of Seattles 5-0 thrashing of amateur club Cal FC in Open Cup action Tuesday night in Seattle was Sigi Schmids post-game comment that his team wasnt used to facing teams who use a sweeper. Eric Wynalda of all people, bringing back the sweeper! And why not? Unfortunately it would have been an even LONGER night had his team played flat in the back.
But tactics aside, Seattle looked fitter, stronger, more organized and plain better. The Sounders are a good club and it was refreshing to hear Sigi also say in his post-game comments that his club takes any tournament they enter very seriously. There is a reason they are the defending three-time champion of the Open Cup. Maybe you and some others dont think its a big deal? Its still a trophy. And soccer at the highest levels is about collecting trophies. There are other clubs in MLS who DO NOT take the Open Cup seriously. In fact, there are clubs in MLS that I dont think take ANYTHING seriously they are so bad. Youve got to win something at some point. And the good thing about Seattle is that even though MLS CUP has eluded them, they are heavily favored every year now to win the Open Cup and that is nothing to scoff at.
Credit to Cal FC for keeping things close through the halftime whistle, but I could tell even from very early in the game that Cal FC would be chasing the game for 90 minutes. Seattle looked organized, strong, serious and confident. And once the first goal went in, the floodgates opened and they did, really, what all MLS teams should do to amateur teamsthey beat them handily.
And again, this is no disrespect to Cal FCa week earlier Cal FC sent the Portland Timbers home from the tournament in from of the Timbers HOME CROWD! What a great run by Cal FC and hopefully some of their players are given the proper opportunity at the pro level to show themselves. And credit to their coach, US Soccer Hall of Famer Eric Wynalda who engineered their great run with limited practices and resources.
Should Wynalda finally get the MLS coaching gig that he maybe deserves? Absolutely! Do you think anybody in MLS will actually take a risk on him? NO.
Why? Because hes not in the club (coaching club)and we all know it. But I dare anybody to hire him (Toronto, would it really hurt to hire him at this point?) because he will win games and he does KNOW the game and he will be the first to admit that if he is NOT getting results FIRE ME!
How is Bruce Arena not under the gun in LA? Can anybody be given more resources yet not achieve anything close to the proper results this season? Why not Wynalda? Nobody will try it. But I guarantee that whoever does will see results. Hes not half the joker that some of the coaches out there are.
Mark Vincent Lincir is the author of THE GIFT OF STOPPAGE TIME
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Sex offender arrested for coaching youth baseball team
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by ANN SHERIDAN / NewsChannel 36 Staff
WCNC.com
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Updated today at 5:33 AM
GRANITE FALLS, N.C. The baseball fields at the Granite Falls Recreation Department are busy with teams and tournaments, but parents on Wednesday said they'll watch their children there a little closer.
Dirk Walker Monseur, an assistant coach of a baseball team of kids between the ages of six and eight, is charged with violating the North Carolina Sex Offender's Registry.
"Stunned, I'm very stunned," said Jermaine James, whose son has played in the league for four years.
Caldwell County detectives arrested Monseur after receiving an anonymous tip.
"It does worry me to learn someone could be working so closely to my son knowing they're a child sex offender," said little league mother Amber Zaremba. She has lived in Granite Falls for most of her life. She said the league is considered a good one, with caring and loving coaches. "It's really shocking to hear."
Monseur, 34, is not accused of harming any children in Granite Falls. He was arrested and convicted in Florida in 2002 for committing a lewd and lascivious act against a child under the age of sixteen. He spent more than three years in prison for that conviction.
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Health & Fitness Calendar for June 6, 2012
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CLINIC
Free Medical Clinic. 4 to 6 p.m. Templo Del Espiritu Santo United Methodist Church, 3715 Elaine Drive, Bryan. 450-7258.
Free Medical Clinic. 4 to 6 p.m. Templo Del Espiritu Santo United Methodist Church, 3715 Elaine Drive, Bryan. 450-7258.
Free Medical Clinic. 6 to 8 p.m. The Bridge Ministries, 1002 E. 29th St., Bryan.
Brazos County Health Department immunization clinics. 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays; 9 to 10:30 a.m. (19 and older) and 2 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays; 10 a.m. to noon Fridays. 201 N. Texas Ave., Bryan. $5 per child, $30 per adult. http://www.brazoshealth.org, 361-4440.
MOVE
Seniors Golf Tournament. 7:30 a.m. Travis B. Bryan Golf Course, 206 W. Villa Maria Road, Bryan. $5 entry.
Brazos Valley Laughter Yoga Circle, 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Unity Church, 4016 Stillmeadow Drive. Combination of laughter exercises, deep breathing and relaxation. Good for seniors, but open to everyone. No mats required. $5 suggested donation. laughwithangelika@yahoo.com or 693-0402.
Freedom Yoga StyleGentle Series. 7 p.m. Brazos Healing Center. Pre-registration required. BrazosHealingCenter.com or 402-3595.
Senior Ladies Tennis. 8 a.m. Gordons Tennis at Aerofit, 4455 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan. 846-8925.
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Health & Fitness Calendar for May 30
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CLINIC Thursday Free Medical Clinic. 4 to 6 p.m. Templo Del Espiritu Santo United Methodist Church, 3715 Elaine Drive, Bryan. 450-7258.
Saturday Free Vein Screening. Brazos Vein Institute, 2605 Osler Boulevard, Bryan. Identify the cause of leg problems originating from vein disease. Appointments are required: 776-WALK.
Tuesday Free Medical Clinic. 4 to 6 p.m. Templo Del Espiritu Santo United Methodist Church, 3715 Elaine Drive, Bryan. 450-7258.
Free Medical Clinic. 6 to 8 p.m. The Bridge Ministries, 1002 E. 29th St., Bryan.
Ongoing Brazos County Health Department immunization clinics. 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays; 9 to 10:30 a.m. (19 and older) and 2 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays; 10 a.m. to noon Fridays. 201 N. Texas Ave., Bryan. $5 per child, $30 per adult. http://www.brazoshealth.org, 361-4440.
MOVE Wednesday Seniors Golf Tournament. 7:30 a.m. Travis B. Bryan Golf Course, 206 W. Villa Maria Road, Bryan. $5 entry.
Thursday Freedom Yoga StyleGentle Series. 7 p.m. Brazos Healing Center. Pre-registration required. BrazosHealingCenter.com or 402-3595.
Friday Senior Ladies Tennis. 8 a.m. Gordons Tennis at Aerofit, 4455 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan. 846-8925.
Line Dancing for Senior Adults. 10 to 11 a.m. Southwood Community Center. For senior adults. mrodgers@cstx.gov or 764-6371.
Saturday Traditional American Folk Dance. 7 to 10 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church, 305 Wellborn Rd. Live music: Jalapeno Honey. Caller: Joe Barziza. http://bcscontra.org.
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