New York Yoga, Spa & Wellness Guide For Personal Growth, Stress Management, Nutrition and Well-being.

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"Just close your eyes and count your breaths," they say. How simple can it be? "Don't think about anything else though. Just concentrate on your breathing." Well, anyone who has tried this "simple" meditation knows that it just isn't that easy.

B Yoga is dedicated to providing a space for our students to B themselves. We understand and respect the many differences in bodies, minds and spirits.

A humidifier can help keep your home influenza-free, say Oregon Stat University researchers. They found that increasing the moisture level in the air causes 80 percent of the flue virus to die within an hour compared with a 30 percent drop in a dry environment.

Your body is a constantly at work heat pump. Aerobic exercises like running can produce body heat at a rate ten to twenty times faster than during resting. Your body regulates its core temperature by attempting to transfer excess heat to the surrounding air. The human body is not always efficient at accomplishing heat transfer so some awareness and management are necessary to prevent heat-related injury.

We often intellectually know the things we should do to be healthy, to reduce stress and lose weight, but if the body and subconscious mind are not in agreement with this information,  then something like battling stress or weight loss becomes a recurring nightmare. If you have been on this merry-go-round, then you can relate.

A recent study published in an American Medical Journal had shown the importance of keeping your mind active and improving your concentration and how it will help you as you get older. The researchers who conducted this study had used people who were 70 or older and tried various techniques to help them improve their mental processes and ensured that their minds stayed active by improving their concentration. The regular practice of these simple concentration and meditation exercises will help to keep your mind functioning well no matter what age you are.

With their various fillings and fixing, deli sandwiches can contain as much or more than a day's worth of calories, fat and sodium. Here are tips to make sure your lunch doesn't equal a full day of meals.

Bottled water is not necessarily any safer than the tap variety. In fact, it's estimated by the EWG that 25% of bottled water is tap water, according to government and industry estimates (some estimates go as high as 40 percent).

Located just south of Union Square in New York City's Greenwich Village, CRS offers programs such as guided meditations, spiritual counseling, a course in miracles, artist residencies, art/dance/drama classes and workshops, yoga/mind/body/spirit classes and healing therapies, as well as opportunities to present, perform, exhibit and publish.