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5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Vitality

5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Vitality

This past Wednesday, I had the delightful opportunity to be the guest speaker at the Women’s Club of Palo Alto’s monthly luncheon, attended by 120 members and guests. The invitation came in September 2022, providing ample time to meticulously plan my presentation. In the days

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patricia becker teaching how to improve your posture in this short youtube video

9 Principles for Good Posture

When prompted, almost anyone can “sit up straight” or “have good posture.” It is maintaining good posture throughout the day that is difficult for the far majority of the population. Just as you have to consistently increase your level of physical fitness, it takes commitment

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What is your self care tip? #sharingiscaring

If you believe self-care is your best health care.  Please share a heath tip that you practice.  You can write your favorite quote, author, movie, comedian, spiritual practice, healthy habit in the comment section below.  You might help someone else through a tough patch in

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Loosen up your body in a variety of ways with live online Yoga classes patricia becker

Movement, Aging, and Longevity

Do Yoga While You Brush Your Teeth and During Commercial Breaks It’s no secret that regular exercise can be critical to healthy longevity, but that doesn’t mean you have to run a marathon to get the benefits of exercise. New research is showing that even

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“The Buddhist on Death Row” moved me to tears. 

The stories in “The Buddhist on Death Row “moved me to tears and filled me with wonderful insights. You may want to take notes, as I did, as a reminder to soften and open our hearts. ————- Jarvis Masters’s gradual but profound transformation from a man

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We Are Not Divided

  It has become conventional widom that we are hopelessly divided.  But this narrative masks a larger truth: that we humans are incredibly skilled at overcoming division. We Are Not Divided is a collaborative multimedia journalism project dedicated to revealing that truth by telling the

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Community ideas to stay healthy!

Nanette Stringer – Running 4+ miles almost every single morning. Of all the things I am doing in the pandemic to make this time feel valuable and significant to myself and others, that is the one that feels like my salvation. I feel lucky that

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The Purpose Checkup

Many of us accept the wisdom of regular physical checkups. We’re also generally willing to review our financial situation with some regularity. Here is the opportunity to give yourself a wellness check up – about your sense of purpose. Maybe it is a good time

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Yoga Relief for Neck and Shoulders

Love and stretch the muscles that hold up your head! Subscribe to my YouTube channel for many more great yoga classes. If you find benefit, your donation to help cover the costs of producing “Yoga for Health and Joy” TV Show Classes is greatly appreciated. 

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Health Benefits of Nettles

It’s no wonder that throughout temperate regions of the world nettles are valued for building vitality.   I like to find this plant on the numerous mountain hikes within a hours drive of Palo Alto.  A local herbalist, Darren Huckle taught me not to be

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Yoga for Good Digestion

This 30 minute Yoga for Good Digestion TV Show / Class  is for you if you experience indigestion, acid reflux, bloating, or stomach pain. Learn a few or all of these poses as your reliable self-healing “GoTo remedies” FREE Anytime!   Smooth digestion is essential for

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YouTube Yoga TV Playlist

Hi there,   In my desire to share the many health benefits of yoga with you, I am making professional TV Shows at the Midpen Media Center in Santa Clara County, CA.  These shows are also uploaded to PegMedia.org where public access  stations across the county are able

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Yoga Therapy – Health Trend Doctors are Paying Attention To

Yoga therapy takes a more holistic approach to healing, focusing on patients as a whole instead of just on their conditions. The practice simultaneously works on the body, mind, and spirit, strengthening the body’s different systems. These include the heart and cardiovascular system, muscles, the

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Test Your Inner Peace – With a Sense of Humor

Self-Awareness Test – Symptoms of Inner Peace Be on the lookout out for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed. It is possible that it could reach epidemic proportions. This could be a threat to the conflicts locally

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Healthy Gut Bacteria

Good news – you can cultivate a new microbiota, formerly known as gut flora, in just 24 hours—by changing what you eat. “Did you know we are only 10% human? 90% of our cells are nonhuman, microbial cells. Since our diet influences our microbes, it’s

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Let My Will, Be God’s Will.

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life. After Dinner Presentation  by Al Lampell. Monday June 13th 8pm  at the Meatless Monday Dinners First Baptist Church, 305 N. California Ave, Palo Alto 94301 – Enter via the tall white double doors on California Ave facing South Ct. (No religious

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Physicians Learn Benefits of Plant-based Diets

Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed healthcare organization in the United States, has published a remarkable nutritional update for physicians, telling them that healthy eating may best be achieved with a plant-based diet, defined as a regimen that “encourages whole, plant-based foods and discourages meats, dairy

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Minimize Regrets

Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness. When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five: 1. I wish I’d

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Sugar Blues

The following is from a book that made… dramatic improvements in my physical and emotional health: While preparing his recurring volume, A History of Nutrition, published in 1957, Professor E. V. McCollum (Johns Hopkins University), sometimes called America’s foremost nutritionist, reviewed approximately 200,000 published scientific

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Take a Yoga class and call me in the morning

Doctor’s Prescription for Yoga! More doctors—including those with traditional Western training—are prescribing the ancient practice of yoga to their patients. With a growing body of research proving yoga’s healing benefits, it’s no wonder. Given rising health care costs and challenges, experts agree yoga is a

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What Happens To Your Body When You Start Doing Yoga

This ancient practice is on par with aerobic exercise as one of the best things you can do for mind, body, and spirit. For decades, aerobic exercise—the type that raises your heart and breathing rates, such as running or  cycling—has been touted by scientists as

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Chew Your Food – Secret to Good Health

I am and always have been very interested in older people that are living happy healthy lives! They deeply inspire. What do they have to say? What do they attribute their vitality to? Two days ago, a client asked me how to alkalize because she

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5 Ways to Improve Our Memory

Though it seems unnecessary, memorization is important for many reasons beyond being great at trivia night. For one, it disciplines the mind, making it more focused and productive; what you hold in your memory also informs how you think about things, and helps you understand

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4 Tips – Meditation for Pain Relief

How to Use Meditation for Pain Relief   Mare Chapman, a Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapist, says meditation can ease everything from life-interfering chronic pain to stress-induced muscle tension to the occasional migraine or menstrual cramp. While you may not be able to eliminate the cause, you don’t have

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