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Detox and Strengthen Your Immune System with REBOUNDING 

Detoxification is an essential part of overall health and it is a crucial part of the auto-immune disease and cancer fighting regimen. Did you know that we have a natural system to assist us with internal detox? This natural system is our lymph system. 

Achieving HEALTH and BALANCE are the key ingredients in living a physically, emotionally, relationally and spiritually healthy, empowered and fulfilling life. You cannot have one without the other. Each of us faces challenges related to time management. Many of us are dealing with working one or more jobs, nurturing our family, attempting to create a healthy lifestyle, managing a household, assisting our aging parents, attending school or other training, responding to increasing work and time pressures of the shrinking workplace as our workday seems to consume more of our day offering less and less opportunity for personal fulfillment, health and balance. 

Energy, as we defined it in Western terms, is the ability to do work. In Eastern terms, energy is that which provides breath and life. That which provides life is pretty important. How to nurture and enhance this life giving energy is worthy of study and practice. 

In India, yogis called this energy prana and its pathways nadis; in China, the Taoists called it qi (pronounced chee) and founded the science of acupuncture, which describes the flow of qi through pathways called meridians. The exercises of tai chi chuan and qi gong were developed to harmonize this qi flow; the Indian yogis developed their system of bodily postures to do the same.

Achieving BALANCE is a key ingredient in living a physically, emotionally, relationally and spiritually healthy, empowered and fulfilling life. Balance creates empowerment, a position each of us has been given the opportunity to experience and is capable of. 

Each of us faces challenges and many of us face challenges related to time management. Many of us dealing with working one or more jobs, nurturing our family, attempting to create a healthy lifestyle, managing a household, assisting our aging parents, attending school or other training, responding to increasing work and time pressures of the shrinking workplace as our workday seems to consume more of our day offering less and less opportunity for personal fulfillment and balance. It is important to analyze various aspects of your lives and whether you are working toward achieving balance which ultimately assists you be empowered and to ATTAIN YOUR VISION. 

There are three ways that YIN YOGA helps our  flow of energy to create healthy chi flow. First, as we relax our habitually tightened muscles, Yin Yoga places the body in a yoga pose for a longer amount of time to pull on and pressurize the tissues. This coaxes chi and blood into these sites making them stronger and better lubricated. Second, lengthening and deepening the breath (pranayama) oxygenates the blood while increasing the flow of prana throughout the body. Third, mindfulness practices in yin practice, allows chi to flow smoothly. Where the attention goes, the chi follows. Quieting the mind allows the chi flow to be uninhibited as it travels through the body, heart and mind. 

Yoga, both Yin and Yang forms, are calming yet strangely energizing. It's positive. It allows you connect, listen to, and understand your body. It reinforces the importance of having a strong, sound body as well as a strong, sound mind that work in connection to one another. These are all staples in each of our recoveries.