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…
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,…
Losing weight in a healthy way
With the bikini season approaching quicker then we might realize we are looking to get rid of the few extra kilos that we have stored over the holiday and winter season. There are all kinds of information, tips, diets and alleged remedies on how to lose weight. But all too often we find here short-term…
Yoga as de-stressing method?
Last month the focus at Slow•o•lution was to raise awareness of the negative impact a stressful lifestyle has on our health and wellbeing. Along the way hopefully the different blogs made you think what are the causes that lead you to have such a life style. A lot of times we might know what the…
The right approach to workout
With the arrival of each new year we define our resolutions and many of us resolve to be more active and work out more. Working out is a term that combines different categories: strength, balance, endurance and flexibility. Each category has advantages and disadvantages which I will touch on in the coming months, but for…
Primary Paradigm behind Stress
Since we know that a vast majority of our stress and emotions come from the mind. Are there basic paradigms contributing to the hyper active stress response in most individuals? The answer is Yes! We are going to focus on one called The Achievement Gap or simply A to B. Have new possessions or achievements…