The #1 Key To Staying Young

Enjoy Life Into Your Golden Years, And Beyond! Looking around today, I see a lot of Senior Citizens doing the shuffle. No, it’s not a new dance craze for the senior set. It’s the way they walk, shuffling one foot in front of the other, sometimes with a cane in hand to keep their balance….

Tai Chi

What Are You Looking At?

Top Ways To Use A Mirror To Improve Your Tai Chi And Self Esteem When I started, I conducted my Tai Chi classes at a fitness center inside a room primarily used for Yoga. This room did not have any mirrors to use so we could check our alignment. When the fitness center closed due…

Beware The Distractionoid!

“Papa, I’m going to go work on my document, if that’s OK with you.” And with that, my daughter bounds into the living room, with a hot cup of Milo that she just made, sits down at “her” laptop, and begins working on her “document,” which is a story that she’s writing. Did you like…

Make Fitness A Family Affair

  Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day was Saturday July 7. Did you take your daughter for a walk? No, me neither. At least not intentionally. We did do some shopping together and walked through the mall, but we didn’t make a concerted effort to take a walk together. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Practice Yoga, and other mind, body, spirit Arts with respect and common sense.
Corporate Wellness

Get Off The Phone And Plank!

SFGate.com recently reported that a Yoga Instructor was fired from her teaching gig at Facebook because she gave a student a “disapproving look” for using her cell phone during a class. Not only was she fired from her gig at Facebook, but her gig at Cisco as well for telling a student to not take…

Top Tips To Stay Cool

Here are some obvious, and not so obvious, ways to keep your cool when the temperature rises. Drink plenty of cool water. Skip the ice, or just use a cube or two. The idea is to hydrate your body, not send it into shock. Your body wants to stay at 98.6F. If your core temperature…

Miley Cyrus, Advocate for Meditation
Meditation

I Want My Daughter To Grow Up Like Miley Cyrus

That’s probably something you won’t hear many father’s say about their daughters! Miley Cyrus, the pop star and actress who starred in Disney’s Hannah Montana, has had her fair share of critics and problems with the press. Between her inappropriate pictures and not always wholesome image, you’d think that Miley may not be the best…

The Diet Trap

You’ve been losing the same 50 pounds for the past 10 years. You’ve tried all the diets, Mediterranean, South Beach, Paleo, low-cal, low-carb, high-protein, low-salt, Atkins, gluten-free, 3-day, 7-day, 12-hour, detox, etc, … But, nothing seems to work. Could it be that you’re trying too hard? Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Tai Chi

It’s Good To Be The Turtle

You’ve probably seen the YouTube video that depicts a Tai Chi fight. Two guys in silk pajamas moving very, very slow to great comedic effect. You can view it here. While we’d never fight at that pace, in Tai Chi we do train at a slow, even, comfortable pace. The reasons for this are simple….