Haaz, S. (2009). Yoga for Arthritis. The Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center. Retrieved on January 9,…
I dance classical ballet since I was 3 years old and ever since then I have been doing it. My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem as Manon, especially her Final Pas de Deux with Jonathan Cope.…
Over the course of my long life (or lives depending on how you look at it) I have been known by many names. And not all of them translate exactly. My latest and last one is Gracen. I do not know how old I am, nor do I really care. All that matters is that I get two square meals a day and a warm bed at night. An occasional pet behind the ears is nice too. It’s times like this, late at night in my bed, when I reminisce back to where it all began.…
Hair? A paw? What was going on? I felt sick, I felt like I had a fever the night before. I woke up wondering if it was a dream but it wasn’t somehow I woke up and I was a dog. No one would ever believe this. How am I going to show my mom and dad it was me.…
“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vince Lombardi, Green Bay Packer coach.…
When I was in second grade I learned that I loved competing with people and being good at things. I joined a gymnastics gym near my house in second grade when i was 9, and started competing when i was 10. My mom told me that I have to do well in school if I was going to be focused on a sport along with school, or she would take me out of gymnastics. Soon enough, I wasn’t doing so well in social studies and comm skills. I was scared my mom would make me quit, But I worked as hard as I could so get back up there. Focusing more on school than outside activities, I got that grade back up and I continued with my favorite sport. I love gymnastics, but I don’t let it get in the way of school because school always comes first.…
Even generations ago, my family members realized how difficult it was to fit in time to see distant family members. That’s why since my great grandmother was around, we’ve spent one day during the holiday season participating in what we call The Progressive. As the tradition goes, each family is required to prepare one part of the traditional five course meal, the assignment of which rotates between the families each year. Each family prepares their part of the meal and hosts it at their home, allowing the entire family to visit everyone’s home and “progress” through one giant five course meal throughout the course of the day. It has, without a doubt, provided some of my family’s favorite stories throughout the years while allowing us to reflect on the year’s past with each other. Although it has been around since my grandparents were children, it has changed drastically since it’s inception those many years ago.…
Every human struggles everyone has hardship. When I was young I began to notice that maybe it is hard to understand what other people struggle with. The start of a mundane life began as usual a bus ride to school, but today something else happened a flash of yellow a soundless luxury sports car zoomed bass by a Lamborghini. As the car passed by everyone looked at it with amazement as the never seen a car pass from this part of the street. I began to wonder when will I get one with imaginary job I will live the high life. The bus hits a bump on the road I am begging to rationalize who much work will it take to achieve greatness to struggle to overcome adversity.…
“Juana are you almost ready” I heard my mom call from outside the bathroom door. I fell asleep in the shower again. I only had 35 minutes to get ready for my recital. To make things worse I had just got moved up to a more experienced class with 2 people instead of 5. Over the last year me and those girls had become really close even though I only saw them 3 times a week sometimes 2 but in that short time period we learned to trust each other and were happy for others success. In my new class there were 2 girls who had felt that same feeling for 5 years so they were actually best friends. They weren’t very happy with me joining in so they were really mean to me so I didn’t want to be there as much as I did before. I got ready…
I always keep this poem and picture in my wallet. I take it everywhere with me because it means quite a lot to me in two very different ways. One of those ways is because it holds sentimental value. When I was younger I learned to read very late in life and I was always so embarrassed of that. My father knew that I was struggling and bought me the book, Where the Sidewalk Ends. It is a book full of poems and little pictures written by Shel Silverstein. I remember opening the book to ta random page, and it was the page with this poem. I then remember my dad asking me to read it to him. I was so uncomfortable, even thought I was just going to be reading to my dad. He gave me some words of encouragement, and even thought I was not able to read…
As a dancer of eighteen years and long time athlete, I suffer from many aches and pains. I first thought of joining the class as a way to become introduced to the form of exercise. I first questioned the class as I suffer from back problems which I am currently treated for, however; on the first day of class when our Professor explained the concepts behind the class I realized that by strengthening my core, I could possibly experience less aches and pains in my lower back.…
It seems that I'm running away a lot these days. There always something or someone chasing me…
Been in the hospital 11 times this year so far. One of my drs partners admitted me this time around and since I was just released on Thursday he decided to call in gi on call. The gi decided it was about time for a feeding tube. So I go in tomorrow to have that placed. Ik knew it was coming from the day I was diagnosed with gp but it feels like failure on my part. I have lost almost 100 lbs which I can afford to lose. I did weigh 250 and down to 170 now. I always feel run down and no energy anymore. I want to be able to keep up with my 6 year old. I know the tube will help that but still feels like I failed my body when I know in reality my body failed me. I am type 1 diabetic on an insulin pump and cgms also considering a spinal…
I was in the second grade when all of this had happen. It was a bright sunny day in afternoon recess. Gunner decided he was going to be mean that day...he just chose the wrong girl, which happened to be my best friends, Rylie Knox. Gunner started to pick on her, which I did NOT like at all, it made me angry. When this was happening, Rylie and Gunner were on the ground and I was on the monkey bars. I was thinking if I should do the thing I’m about to do, then the next thing I knew. I was on Gunner, realizing that I just jumped on him and hearing him yell to get off of him. I didn’t necessarily feel bad about what I did, I was actually proud of myself that I had the courage to do such a thing. The one thing that it taught me…
Yoga therapy is an ancient holistic system of recovery of the body. For proper functioning of the body, one needs to balance the operation of such systems as digestion and blood circulation, to establish the normal operation of the endocrine glands and the vestibular apparatus. In this case, the energy state of the tissues of the body depends on the good functioning of the nervous system. The practice of yoga is based on the use of asanas and pranayama. Asanas are the physical exercises, but they are not only physical exercises. Asanas are used to affect all three aspects of a man (body, mind and consciousness), forming and combining them into one harmonious unity. Pranayama is a set of breathing practices aimed at the relaxation not only of the body, but also of the soul. It is the way of relaxation and meditation, which ensures the successful use of asanas. Because being effective in solving different problems, “more and more people afflicted with stress-related illnesses are flocking to yoga to help with managing the symptoms of these illnesses” (The Everything Yoga Blog, 2009).…