Live fully in midlife and beyond
I loved being able to reach so many of you with Yoga online this past fall.
It was a great experience!
So, I’m bringing Belly Fit Yoga back this winter, beginning in January.
It’s a brand new session, with brand new classes.
So, this winter I’m adding something new….
A shorter 30-minute wake-up Yoga class on Tuesday mornings.
Continue reading “Belly Fit Yoga coming to you this winter”
You want to be healthy.
Maybe you want to lose weight, or feel better in your body, or not get sick.
And you know that exercise is important.
You know that you’ve got to do it.
You kind of want to do it.
Well, at least you know you want the results of doing it.
But you’re not doing it.
Not consistently.
Even though you’ve got the gym membership, the cute workout clothing, the new shoes, the treadmill, the time,…
You’re still not doing it.
Continue reading “Why you aren’t exercising”
Being an engineer, I’m a bit of a science geek.
Especially when it comes to the science of the body.
So, if you’re also a science geek, or even if you’re not, I bet you learned The Law of Conservation of Mass.
Basically that’s the law that says in any chemical reaction, mass is neither created or destroyed.
So, here’s a good question for you:
How does fat loss work?
I mean, if you lose fat, and that fat mass doesn’t just disappear, what does it become?
Continue reading “Can you lose fat by breathing?”
I was hoping that this fall I’d be able to go back and teach Yoga at my local space.
But that’s not possible, given these Covid times.
So, that’s the bad news.
The good news, though, is that I’ll be teaching Yoga on Zoom, which allows me to reach many more of you!
Continue reading “Belly Fit Yoga this fall – on Zoom”
“This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted, and shaky – that’s called liberation.”
― Pema Chödrön
I love Pema.
I read her words and listen to her voice when things are tough.
And right now, I need her words.
Because lately, I’ve been confronted with difficult emotions, as I know most of us have.
Continue reading “Getting uncomfortable to make change happen”
I’m not generally a morning snoozer these days.
But in the past I’ve stayed in bed after my alarm, awake, internally protesting against getting up to go to work.
“Just a few more minutes,” I’d silently negotiate with myself.
And then it would frustrate me to be rushing around to leave the house.
I remember this being especially true when the kids were younger and I would have to push them through their morning routine.
I dreaded those mornings.
They usually ended in raised voices, defiance, and on occasion, melt downs (mine more than theirs.)
Continue reading “Do you choose to snooze?”
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post exploring our belief that aging is inevitable.
The post was inspired by a podcast I was listening to.
And that led me to read the book that inspired the podcast.
Dr. David Sinclair was the interviewee of that podcast, and the author of the book, “Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To.”
This book is powerful, and full of the latest cutting-edge science in the field of aging.
Shortly after finishing the book, and by beautiful coincidence, I found out the guy – Dr. David Sinclair – was coming to McGill as a guest speaker at their annual science symposium!
Continue reading “This may be a little uncomfortable…”
Ahhh, exercise.
We all enjoy the effects of it, but a lot of the time we don’t really want to do it.
That includes me.
However, I’m in the habit now of exercising daily, and I can truly say it’s just part of my routine (I actually get up 25 minutes earlier to do it because mornings are my best time.)
And it feels so good, that I just want to keep doing it… Really!
So what can you do to make exercise just a regular part of your day?
Here are a few ideas:
Continue reading “4 Ways to Get Your Daily Dose of Exercise”
If you had have asked me this question last week, I’d have said “Of course!”
Aging is just a natural part of life, it’s like a law or something unchangeable, everyone has to age.
And in fact, I’m ok with that.
I don’t really want to live forever.
But I do want to live healthy as long as possible.
I want a long health span, not just a long life span.
And the newest research in aging is showing how we can have both.
Continue reading “Do you have to age?”
Who you hang around with has a big impact on who you are, and who you become.
In fact Jim Rohn, the motivational speaker, once said that you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
But what does that mean?
Continue reading “Fit friends = Fitter you”