Studies have shown that exercise is good for your heart, for building lean muscle, for improving metabolism, and for balancing your mood and lowering stress hormones. New research has shown that for many, exercise simply means going to the gym for 45 minutes three times a...
It's NATIONAL ARTHRITIS WEEK 2018 October 9 - October 16, and is an annual event to raise awareness of the condition and the impact on sufferers and their families. Arthritis generally affects older people, and is known as osteoarthritis. It can affect people of any age,...
Today we are celebrating WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2018 Over the past 70 years there has been a drastic perceptual shift as to how individuals think about the practice of meditation in the western world. What was once thought of as a quasi psychedelic practice used by hippies to alter states of consciousness, is...
Welcome to the season of Keats’ mists and mellow fruitfulness… At this time of year, when the light and the dark make up equal parts of the day, and as the weather gets cooler, we begin to draw energy inwardly. In Ayurvedic terms, autumn is the season where Vata is predominant,...
“Life is a constant readjustment. It’s whether you readjust consciously that makes all the difference.” This week its National Work Life Week and it is an opportunity for both employers and employees to focus on well-being at work and work-life balance. Employers can use the week...
Over the years I have experimented with dozens of DIY kitchen and bathroom recipes to find the ones that I like and that work. Below are my favourite organic beauty products that I made from scratch. The best thing about these is that none contains...
Today marks the Autumn Equinox, and the start of the Seed Gathering Season. Since 1998, The Tree Council has been organising Seed Gathering Season, the autumn campaign to inspire everyone to gather seeds, fruits and nuts and grow the trees of the future. The festival starts...
Slimy, slippery seaweed has been heralded as the new, must-have superfood. Seaweed refers to several species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of red, brown, and green algae. Despite its recently trendy, superfood status, seaweed has been used all over the world for thousands of years, but has most notably...
While organic food is sometimes more expensive than non-organic, there are ways to keep costs down. In an ideal world, organic wouldn’t need to be more expensive. A big part of the problem is that the true cost of our food isn’t reflected in the...
Mindfulness meditation is a powerful and ancient meditation technique that is proven to help reduce stress, alleviate anxiety and depression, and even help with pain and illness. Forbes recently reported that Brown University had found a convincing link between mindfulness meditation and improved cardiovascular health. Meditation’s...