#LiveWholeHealth

Music is a gift that speaks to the heart and body. Even if you are not a dancer, you can still enjoy moving your body in gentle ways that will get your blood flowing and your muscles moving.

Body scan, or being grateful for the ways that your body supports you, is a daily practice that can improve your life in many ways.

Breathing slowly and deeply in through the nose and out through the mouth with a soft and relaxed belly can increase the body’s exchange of oxygen. This technique also stimulates the body’s rest and relaxation response. It quiets the areas of the brain that register fear and anger.

How can your body help your mind? How can we work on connecting them? What role does your breath play? The fourth session in this series, Connecting Mind and Body, will help to answer these questions.

What does it mean to feel grounded? For me, grounding is a sensation of being fully connected to myself, and in the present moment. When I feel grounded, I feel more stable in my mind and body.

Qigong uses exercises to optimize energy within the body, mind and spirit, with the goal of improving and maintaining health and well-being.

This brief 3-minute grounding exercise will guide you through a simple process of slowing down, breathing, and connecting with your senses.

Moving the body is important for all of us, and it can help increase stamina, improve strength, mobility, balance, or flexibility.

We all experience stress, which can lead to headaches and other negative outcomes. In this week's #LiveWholeHealth, we use acupressure to manage it.

This week's #LiveWholeHealth follows the previous post, Connecting Mind & Body Session 1, to help release and relax.

This week's #LiveWholeHealth follows the previous post, Connecting Mind & Body Session 1, to help release and relax.

There are so many ways that you can incorporate yoga practices and mindful movement into your daily routine, and using an exercise or yoga ball is one fun way to change up your practice.