Cold Water Bathing?
Cold water immersion is hitting social media. It seems like everybody is doing it. What’s the real reason we go to extremes?
Balance is a skill…do you know how?
Yesterday I climbed over silver coloured rolling beach rocks, balanced on split log paths and crept over large shards of shale laying barrier between the moist, spruce- perfumed air of Gaff Point and the glistening, golden late afternoon waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. There wasn’t a moment on the hike when my balance wasn’t being challenged by the footing.
Undizzy Yourself
It’s that time of year where wheelbarrows squeak out of sheds, hiking boots come out of hiding in the back of the closet and the warm weather beckons us to wander further afield.
Your hips are not a can that needs to be opened!
You don’t have to go far to find a yoga class or workshop that is either telling you the need to open your hips or citing a laundry list of benefits if you can do so.
The fact is, the hips are a very stable joint. They are not meant to open. They are meant to transfer the force of your legs through the pelvis and into your spine. The real question the prophets of hip opening need to be asking is what effect is the position of your hip joint having on how your spine is moving or not.
Core Stability Or Core Strength? Do You Know The Difference?
Have you ever been told you need to “strengthen your core”?
Did you go to a gym or a pilates class and still at the end of it not really understand how to do it?
The truth is I’ve been in the same situation. Even after years of pilates training, I didn’t have a true sense of what my core was or should be doing.