Author: Erin H. Corpuz
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The Slow Food Movement: Lessons from Sloths
Sloths have the lowest metabolic rate of any mammal. One of the reasons they are so slow is because of their super slow digestion. A sloth takes 30 days to digest a meal. Other animals can digest the same meal in a matter of hours. Our eating habits have become quite different than our tree…
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Slow Healing
When you’re healing, you know how up and down and back and forth it can be. You learn that it is a journey. That it is really up to you. That no doctor or medication is actually going to make you heal. It will help manage symptoms, but not heal. So we adjust to find…
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Breathe Better: Simple Box Breathing for Anxiety Reduction
Our breath is the number one resource we have to help us feel better. Most of us don’t really know how to use it. I’m sure you’ve seen movies where someone is hyperventilating. They blow in and out of a brown bag. Yes, no? We want to avoid the hyperventilating part. We will teach you…
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Benefits of Mountain Pose: Enhance Your Balance and Posture
Mountain Pose, or Tadasana benefits us in various ways. The pose is centering, grounding and stabilizing. It helps to establish good posture, and cultivate balance between the right and left sides of the body. Stand tall, feet firmly on the ground. Weight spreading equally across your toes and the 3 corners of your feet. Press…
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Balance Your Root Chakra: Tips for Grounding and Stability
If you are feeling fear, anxiety and instability, you may have an unbalanced root chakra. Here are some simple ideas that I feel have really helped me. Connect with earth. Walk in the grass (or anywhere outside) barefoot. Garden, sit against a tree and meditate or just breathe. Visualize. Imagine roots extending down from the…
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Finding Balance: Lessons from Sloths
Sloths embody harmony and balance, suggesting a need to find equilibrium in life and avoid extremes. In society with so much noise and polarity, its essential for us to create our own balance and harmony. Take time today to sit in quiet, breathe, and tune in to yourself. Tune out the noise, and tune IN…
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Preparing for the Spring Equinox
This time of year, as we gently prepare for the spring equinox and the blossoming season ahead, it’s important for us to take a moment to ground ourselves into the earth. Just as the roots begin to stir beneath the surface and animals gradually emerge from their winter slumber, we also connect with the ground…
The Sacred Sloth 