Optimal Breathing: Pilates Breathwork
[Exploring Life] Correct breathing is a primary goal and basic fundamental in the Pilates method. Practicing Pilates exercises while using abnormal breathing patterns can be very detrimental to both the body and mind. Unless a student is capable of breathing correctly under normal conditions, the probability of breathing correctly during exercises is poor. Breathwork is [...]
Nutrition: Sunlight-Sun Beds-Vitamin D
[Exploring Life] Sunlight is the essence from which all life on our planet originates, evolves and is energized. Without sunlight we would not exist. Light and health are completely integrated; a lack of sunlight impairs our health. For thousands of years, humankind was naturally exposed to sunlight, without the psychological burden of fear we have [...]
Optimal Breathing: Designing a Breathwork Practice
[Exploring Life] Breathwork is a general category that describes any technique, method, or exercise used to consciously alter breathing. It is a means to explore and interact with breathing through intention. Breathwork is a physical, mental and spiritual endeavour. The nature of physical and cultural environment that surrounds us has a direct impact on the [...]
Nutrition: Organic Food vs. Non-Organic Food
[Exploring Life] The ignorance of scientists and science can at times be so blinding that it leaves us wondering how such an obvious lack of intelligence and common sense gains even a remote sense of credibility – let alone attention. An independent review commissioned by the Food Standards Agency in the UK concludes that there [...]
Nutrition: The Use of Nutritional Supplements
[Exploring Life] Many people take a nutritional supplement (also known as dietary or food supplements) assuming that the supplement will in some manner assist in maintaining or improving their health. Nutritional supplements are widely available to consumers since they are often classified as a form of food rather than a drug. A supplement may include [...]
Food: Superfood – Critical Attributes
[Exploring Life] A superfood is currently a category of food that lacks clear definition. One particular food may be described as having special nutritional qualities that nurture a specific dimension of our health. A list of superfoods may be created with each item on the list described in terms of its specific nutritional benefits. The [...]
Food: Superfood – Health Claims
[Exploring Life] The emergence of the term superfood originates in the idea that some foods are superior to others in terms of their potential health benefits. While no accepted definition currently exists, the word superfood usually refers to a specific kind of plant-based food source that provides superior levels of essential nutrients and is often [...]