The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying lockdown measures have put enormous pressure on our physical and mental wellbeing. For me, yoga is a powerful tool to deal with the lockdown’s uncertainty and isolation. Evrim and I try to show up on our yoga mats every day, and we even devoted one of our rooms to our yoga and meditation practices. This room is all about yoga, crystals, candles, plants, divine incense sticks […]
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Wheatgrass is a food made from the Triticum aestivum plant. It’s regarded as a super potent health food with amazing benefits. It’s usually consumed as a fresh juice, but it also comes in powdered form. Fresh wheatgrass juice is considered to be a living food. Health enthusiasts have long raved about the countless benefits of this plant, […]
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Yoga is a science of life that helps us to know the known and unknown parts of life, that helps us to liberate ourselves from pains and miseries. I saw these sentences in a book, and I think it describes what yoga is “The highest of all books is the book of life. Unless you open […]
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It’s no secret that our parents had a HUGE impact on the person we are today. We are shaped by our environment more than we are often aware, especially when we’re young. The values that we form through our early interactions become our moral compass and guiding light. They’re so essential to our well-being that […]
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Most of the time, our minds are busy — we’re thinking about the future, dwelling on the past, worrying, fretting or daydreaming but mindfulness brings us back to the present moment. How can mindfulness change your brain? Participating in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction [MBSR] for 8 weeks is associated with increases in gray-matter density in areas […]
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The immune system has a vital role: It protects your body from harmful substances, germs and cell changes that could make you ill. It is made up of various organs, cells and proteins. As long as your immune system is running smoothly, you don’t notice that it’s there. But if it stops working properly – […]
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You might have heard about green smoothies, but have you ever tasted one? If not, you might want to reconsider. Here is a short list of why you will gladly add a green smoothie to your daily diet. Jill Fleming- registered dietitian at the Mayo Clinic Health Systems Center for Women’s Health in Onalaska, explains why we […]
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No one would deny that living in a materialistic and a consumer-oriented world has been the most crucial issue in the modern society. It creates more discontented minds and no matter how much we possess, it is never enough! We are afraid to die, we want to live longer, be healthier, look younger and accumulate […]
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To be honest, the travel part on my website was the most difficult one to start, so it took for a while to post. It was not because I found it hard to write about it, it was because I could not choose where to start! For sure, I was dying to write about our […]
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Stress inhibits reproductive hormones, we all know that, right? But the question is why? Under stress, the sympathetic nervous system sends messages to muscles, organs and glands that help the body to react. Whenever a stressful event occurs, our bodies undergo a series of involuntary hormonal and biochemical changes. This automatic stress response puts our […]
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