How to Travel Pregnant and Stay Healthy: 5 Essential Tips
Looking after your health is a top priority when you’re pregnant, and there are extra considerations to be made when you travel. Take these essential tips into account and you’ll be enjoying a worry-free holiday in no time. Learn everything you need to know about vaccinations While inactivated vaccinations are safe for pregnant women, live […]
White Angelica in troubled times
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens” Rumi February has been an extremely challenging and draining month. It ended with the passing away of a fit, strong athlete and friend, and not of her own doing. She fought to wake from her coma for 2.5 months after being hit by a car […]
Palo Santo.. Sacred wood
I found a new love this February, and it’s called, Palo Santo! I’ve also been a bit of a cardio junkie, whose been trying to calm down and incorporate more yoga in her life with much success, but more about that in another post. Back to Palo Santo. It has got a sweet yet woody […]
Favourite Abs Workout with Dumbells
And it goes.. something like this! Russian twists – 3×20 Take a pair of dumbbells (as heavy as you can go) in a double grip and sit down on the floor while keeping the knees bent at a 90 degree angle and feet off the floor for added difficulty. Set yourself back so that the […]
Cleanse & Detox post Holiday fun!
What are the ways, in which you detox your body? Do you detox at all? We just had an incredible holiday period of feasting and drinking over Christmas, so of course I for one, am feeling the aftermath of it. Dull skin, sore back and fingers, parched tongue… not great signs at all. A Spring […]
Some Tricks to Help with Overeating over the Holiday Season
I just read in a journal that you should try feeding yourself with your less dominant hand. This will in the long run discourage overeating. Because using your left hand does not come naturally, chances are you’d give up before you can eat too much? What do you think? Have you tried it? Anyway, here […]
Enter the Dragon… with Dragon Time!
That time of the month is a pain in the butt for many women, including me. I remember marathon training usually experiencing minor setbacks, during the time of my period. Let’s just call it a less than optimum run day. Such a pain even to go to race day with an achy back or worrying […]
5 Top Tips on Traveling with a baby
Traveling with a 1 year old can be challenging. We used to think that traveling with a 6 month old was tough, but wait till they start running around and know what it is to feel bored or trapped when belted down at take off. Wow, then things really get interesting! With a bit of planning […]
Have baby will Travel
Away in Mauritius for 3 weeks eating with the locals and traveling with the locals. Also our baby was running on less sleep than she’s used to, and eating a different diet and exposed to all the elements. Happy to report that we and our 1 year old Luca, are healthy and didn’t fall ill […]
Fire up that Core! Best floor exercises…
People think that when you say CORE, you mean the abs. But really, it’s not just the abs, that make up the core. The core makes up nearly half the body and includes all muscles that attach to the pelvis and spine. Run, jump, twist, bend, or brace, and those muscles must fire in concert. […]