•Daily 5-minute breathwork and mindfulness meditation improve mood and reduce anxiety
•Breathwork improves mood and physiological arousal more than mindfulness meditation
•Cyclic sighing is most effective at improving mood and reducing respiratory rate
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Imagine a pill that reduced the risk and improved prognosis for all known chronic diseases; it would work regardless of current risk, race, gender, or age. We don't need to test this pill as a large body of data shows its effectiveness. Other beneficial side effects of this pill include reduced anxiety, depression, and improved sleep. Such a pill would be the world's most widely prescribed medication. Sadly, there is no such pill. However, all these benefits come with greater participation in physical activity and exercise.
In this webinar recording, renowned kinesiology researcher Dr. Stuart Phillips, shares how much (or how little) people have to do to improve their odds of living longer, healthier and better lives.
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Proprioception is the sensory information sent from the muscles, tendons, and joints to the somatosensory cortex about where your body is in space as you move. Proprioception is also known as our "sixth sense."
Proprioception plays an important role in the planning of precise and coordinated movements, in maintaining balance and controlling body posture and influences motor learning and re-education.
Why it matters as we age..click here for some insights
Sensing your skeletal structure and making small movements, combined with heightened awareness, will improve the proprioception.
"In order to perceive clearly, our attention concentration, motivation or desire must actively focus us on what it is we are to perceive."Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Try Somatic moves à la Feldenkrais.
Somatic movements, are performed consciously with the intention of focusing on the internal experience of the movement rather than the external appearance or result of the movement.
My somatic moves sessions will guide you to heighten not only, your proprioception, but other senses too.
Become aware, explore, be curious and discover for yourself free and easy movement options.
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