Changing your lifestyle can be daunting, but it is oh so worth it. I recently watched a nutrition talk and one of the messages really resonated with me: “You have no time to waste to start taking care of your health.” I think a lot of young people think that just because they are young…
Ways of helping children to manage stress
Stress is the mental and physical reaction to external factors. The feelings and emotions triggered inside of us depend upon our interpretation of those factors. One strategy consists of raising our stress threshold level so that stress reactions are harder to cause. Another strategy provides tools to efficiently reduce our stress reactions and to neutralize them…
Eating Disorders – Understanding the warning signs
Eating disorders are complex, highly complicated diseases and they come in all shapes and sizes. From anorexia and bulimia to newer phenomena’s like binge eating and orthorexia, there are many things to look out for if you suspect a loved one might be struggling with an eating disorder. In other cases, they may not show…
Children and sport
Children are curious, curious about new things, curious for movement. Shout and scream, race, jump, these are children’s needs. When children do sports, the following is promoted: the development of motor activity, and hence responsiveness, sense of balance and motor coordination. It will not only strengthen muscles and bones, but will also increase their balance,…
Nutrition for kids
A healthy nutrition is especially important during childhood. Those years shape healthy eating and drinking habits. Parents, grandparents and caregiver steer the development of food preferences, which usually stay with us for the rest of our life. This includes choices of foods as well as eating behavior. Rational arguments, like „you have to eat fruits,…
O – make it your own yoga
O is the zero, the blank, the multivalent yet undetermined. O is your personal slogan, make it your own yoga It is with an O, minimal, complete, round, undetermined, void, that I better describe my own yoga practice, the one that I know about and share with my students. I believe yoga is much more than the tribal…
Yoga as Destressing Method: Walking Out of Anxiety and Towards Self-Control
Yoga is a Sanskrit word that means “to join, to bring together”. This millenary tradition, born in India around 4000 years ago, more than a physical activity is a whole philosophy of life. In combination with the “asanas” or postures, yoga aims at harmonizing the work of the body, the breath and the mind, which…
Children’s Yoga Day
Kids are active and curious by nature. That’s why Slow·o·lution and Chantal Hauser Yoga are organizing a Children’s Yoga Day. On this fun filled afternoon, together with your children, we will explore breathing, yoga postures and relaxation through fun interactive play. Date: Saturday, April 2, 2016 Venue: Mala Yoga, Gotthardstrasse 32, 8800 Thalwil Time:…
What is Yoga All About?
Yoga is trendy. It is the “in thing” to do or at least to claim that one does it. It’s almost like one has to be able to say “oh, yes, I also do yoga”. But what is yoga all about and why has it gained so much popularity in recent years? Is it a…
Yoga and digestion – is there a relation?
Most of us practice yoga on a weekly basis. But what’s so really, truly great about it? Is it the added flexibility? The new-found strength? Or the ability to find more balance, even off the mat, in daily life? These might all be great (superficial) layers of your acquaintance with a yoga asana practice. Yet,…