According to one famous old song, “the holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year”. Yet Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza and New Year’s (plus the hectic weeks surrounding them) often leave many of us feeling depleted, depressed and downright stressed out–no matter how much we were looking forward to time spent with family and […]
The Core is a word that is loosely used all the time in the fitness community. If you go to the gym, you will rarely hear the word abdominal bracing being used. However, in order to successfully incorporate your core muscles into an exercise, you must first know how to brace your abdominal muscles which […]
This is an article that I’ve been putting off writing because whenever people talk about ways to be happy it makes me throw up in my mouth a little. But this reframe in my thought process has been very helpful to me, so I feel compelled to share. Like many American’s, I like the way […]
Right now is the busiest, craziest time of the year. Making lists and checking them twice, rushing to get ready for a party, agonizing over what to get for that special someone, sending greetings to friends and family — to say nothing of dealing with traffic, crowds, and the stress that comes from having far […]
The good news is that your life is probably different than how you think it is. Unfortunately, that’s the bad news too. As Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman says: “The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence, but of the coherence of the story that the […]
Colleen Saidman Yee is an internationally renowned yoga teacher, who teaches yoga workshops worldwide with her husband, Rodney Yee. Before coming to yoga, Colleen had a varied career: She was a cover girl, a student of shiatsu, and she lived in Calcutta, working with Mother Theresa at the Home for the Dying and Destitute. More […]