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  • Morning Wake-Up

    Morning Wake-Up

    Morning Wake-Up. It's often hard to find the inspiration to get out of your nice, comfortable bed when you're still so tired. But according to Kundalini yoga, a built-in supply of energy lies dormant at the root of the spine, like a bulb that ...

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  • Six Mood-Boosting Yoga Poses

    Six Mood-Boosting Yoga Poses

    This pose circulates blood to the head and stretches the back. Start on all fours, with hands under your shoulders. Curl your toes, take a breath, and, as you exhale, press into your hands, lifting your hips back. Holding the pose, keep your ...

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  • Detox Fitness Plan

    Detox Fitness Plan

    This physically challenging twist will also raise your body temperature, which in turn increases circulation and further stimulates the release of toxins. Start in a runner's lunge with your right leg bent at a 90-degree angle and your left leg ...

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  • Detox Fitness Plan

    Detox Fitness Plan. Spring cleaning benefits more than just the garage. Your body also stands to gain from this yearly ritual -- and working out is the best place to start. "Exercise increases blood flow and works your muscles," says Mark ...

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  • Disease Prevention Workout

    Disease Prevention Workout

    This exercise strengthens the abs with a core challenge without the neck strain of a traditional crunch. Sit on the ground balanced on your sitting bones with your abs drawn in, knees bent, shoulders moving down your back, arms reaching forward, and ...

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  • Heart-Smart Workout: Calming Yoga

    Heart-Smart Workout: Calming Yoga

    The standing forward bend increases circulation and strengthens the heart while stretching the lower back and hamstrings. It also activates the pineal and pituitary glands, and releases serotonin. To do it, stand tall with feet shoulder-width apart. ...

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  • Morning and Evening Yoga

    Morning and Evening Yoga

    This strengthens the shoulders, triceps, back, and core, building stamina and boosting confidence and endurance. Start on your hands and knees with your hands under your shoulders and your knees under your hips, then tuck your toes under and ...

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  • Exercises for Beginners

    Exercises for Beginners

    The releves and plies with balance exercise uses the classic dance form to challenge and improve balance, strengthens ankles, and sculpts calves and upper thighs.. Simple Ballet Moves. Resistance training may help slow the aging process. Try this ...

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  • Stability Ball Exercise: Accordion Crunch

    Stability Ball Exercise: Accordion Crunch

    Stability Ball Exercise: Accordion Crunch. Strength: Accordion CrunchTones Deep Abdominal Tissue, Chest, and Shoulders1. Start in plank position (shown on left) with shins resting on top of the ball, body straight, and hands positioned directly ...

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  • Standing Pilates Saw

    Standing Pilates Saw

    Standing Pilates Saw. What It DoesAligns the body and helps with posture; strengthens and stretches the back muscles, also pivotal to core strength.How to Do ItWith your feet 3 to 4 feet apart and slightly turned out, extend arms to the sides at ...

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