Tag: over 60 fitness
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Something beautiful, Wild Asana
By Jay Hiller, September 16, 2023 The writing in the book Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World is absolutely beautiful. In each chapter the author, Alison Zak, focuses on one yoga pose and connects it to the animal it’s named after. Ms. Zak is an author, yoga teacher, anthropologist…
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Book Review: Fiber Fueled
by Jay Hiller, September 8, 2023 As I read, Fiber Fueled, I kept thinking of people I know who I think should read it. The author, Will Bulsiewicz, a gastroenterologist and clinical researcher, does a good job of presenting health information in a way that makes you want to follow through on it. He explains…
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Physical confidence
By Jay Hiller, September 2, 2023 Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash When I’d only be doing yoga a few years, I went to a class where I was given this instruction for Warrior I: “You know, mmmmmmmm.” I didn’t know what that was supposed to mean, and when I thought about that instruction, I…
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Exercise and optimism
by Jay Hiller, August 31, 2023 Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash My week included a bunch of dumb worky-work stuff, a Tuesday night with only two hours of sleep and two days of sub-optimal amounts of exercise. When I got home this afternoon, I felt down and lethargic. I didn’t make my way toward…
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Want a better life? Walk if you’re able.
by Jay Hiller, August 4, 2023 Photo by Arturo Castaneyra on Unsplash At noon yesterday in Austin it was over a hundred degrees and I had a lunch appointment at a restaurant half a mile from my office, a distance I would walk without thinking twice if the weather were better. I decided to walk,…
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Two good podcasts targeted at those of us in our third act
By Jay Hiller, July 21, 2023 I have a long commute during the school year. Podcasts keep that time from being lost. Photo by Melanie Pongratz on Unsplash In the last three weeks I’ve listened to an episode each from two podcasts directed at women who are older. They’re different in that one of them…
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A display of advanced yoga from a novice practicioner
By Jay Hiller, July 18, 2023 Photo by Daniele Franchi on Unsplash I wasn’t expecting much this morning. I had three classes scheduled and less time scheduled in between them than I really liked. Before my first class, a stand up paddleboard yoga class, I waited idly on the dock and half listened to the…
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What if locust pose actually is the answer to everything?
By Jay Hiller, July 12, 2023 It’s a long story why I don’t have a picture to illustrate locust pose. This guy’s cute? Photo by Heiko Haller on Unsplash I’ve been paying a lot of attention to locust pose for about two years now, mainly because a well-known yoga teacher I follow, Jason Crandell likes…