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Vol. I, Issue 4 June 12, 2006 ====================================================== BLESSED HEALTH – THE EZINE Be healthy! Editor: Belinda Y. Hughes Archives Index: http://archives.zinester.com/22259 Mailto: Author_Belinda@yahoo.com Blessed Health – The Ezine is an opt-in letter for those interested in news, information and ideas on healthy living options available to them, presented by an alternative healthcare professional with fifteen years’ experience in studying and applying these options to her own life and those of her clients. Unsubscribe instructions are at the end of this letter. To ensure that our emails pass through your spam filters, please be sure to add Author_Belinda@yahoo.com to your address book today. Thanks for your support of Blessed Health – The Ezine. FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER TO YOUR FRIENDS!!! When copying articles, please copy the full article and give complete credit. ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE ======================================================= 1. Editor’s Tea ("Yoga Dreams") 2. Yoga YaYa: Kids & Yoga 3. Nutrition Corner: Menopause Anxiety & Black Cohosh 4. Ads 5. Contact Blessed Health – The Ezine ARCHIVES LOCATED AT: http://archives.zinester.com/22259 ======================================================= 1. EDITOR’S TEA “Yoga Dreams” ======================================================= Happy summer every body! School’s out and I’m making changes all over the place. First, I opted to acknowledge there-awakening of my yoga dreams and pursue them to reality, rather than put them on the back burner for another 10 years. Translation: Ten years ago, I discovered a first edition of an introduction to yoga book on a friend’s bookshelf. I played around with it a little, tried a few poses with massage clients. My clients responded so enthusiastically that I went on to become a Certified Yoga Teacher (500-hour certificate in Hatha). Later on, my best friend and massage therapy colleague Jennifer and I both suffered several rearend collisions and took on each other as personal injury cases. In the course of things, we integrated passive yoga techniques with our the usual rehabilitative massage therapy moves and both experienced enhanced recovery. In the course of life, I began substitute teaching in the local elementary schools, and discovered for myself how much regular ed. kids enjoy yoga and how much yoga helps kids with disabilities. There’s even a system that’s over 20 years old now – I first read about it 10 years ago and it somehow ended up on the back burner - called Yoga for the Special Child, developed by the yoga-teaching mother of a special child and the international corps of licensed teachers include other moms of special kids, along with adaptive physical education teachers. A book I borrowed from the library, Yoga for Children, even has a special section in the back on poses and tips geared specifically for special kids. Now, since working the last seven months with autistic kids, my original passion for yoga and yoga for special people, specifically children, has reignited and is burning brighter than ever before. Through the years, I maintained a daily morning practice helping me get out of bed, rather than being stuck there in chronic pain. However, I had made the mistake of practicing the last seven years without a mentor, and have now begun studying at a local Kripalu studio with a respected, long-standing community of seven instructors, fitting as many classes as possible into my daily schedule, even making sacrifices at times. After a week and a half, the differences are noticeable. My hurricane stress, recent weight gain and stiffness have all been positively impacted with this gentle, peaceful workout. I had the intuition around my start date that yoga and poetry somehow went together, though I couldn’t put my finger on exactly how that was. Sure enough, I was pleasantly surprised to find the teachers sharing poetry in soft voices during quiet seated moments. Sometimes it was even the teacher’s work, but always beautiful and smooth. Being a poet myself, I have recently embraced this relationship of two arts by indulging in acrostic poetry about various words related to yoga to add to my first poetry collection, now nearing completion. Now to pursue the next step in my yoga dreams – I am currently networking with local nonprofit organizations that serve special kids, towards volunteering a few yoga demos for their students, staff and families, possibly even teaching individual or group sessions on a continuous basis, if everyone’s on board and we can locate the funding for such pursuits. In addition, the center I study at will be putting on a weeklong kids’ camp next month. Camp details are in the ads section below. I’m so excited I could burst! See Yoga Yaya for research on yoga and kids. Go YOGA!!! --- Belinda Y. Hughes http://belinda-y-hughes.tripod.com/ Author_Belinda@yahoo.com ======================================================= 2. Yoga YaYa: Kids & Yoga ======================================================= Fourteen children, who received 10 days of yoga training in a 1999 study showed a significant increase in cognition and a decrease in degree of illusion, compared to no change in an equal number who received no yoga. (Manjunath,-N-K; Telles,-Shirley (1999). Improvement in visual perceptual sensitivity in children following yoga training. Journal-of-Indian-Psychology 17, 41-45.) Forty-five mentally handicapped children in a 1989 study showed improved IQ and social adaptation compared to an equal number who received no yoga. (Uma, K., Nagendra, H. R., Nagarathna, R., Vaidehi, S., & Seethalakshmi, R. (1989). The integrated approach of yoga: a therapeutic tool for mentally retarded children: a one-year controlled study. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research 33, 415-421.). Abstracts on both abovementioned studies are available at http://www6.miami.edu/touch-research/Yoga.htm. Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Microcephaly, Autism, ADD and ADHD are just some of the disorders that have the potential to benefit from yoga. (http://www.specialyoga.com/) KIDS’ YOGA BOOKS WORTH A LOOK: My Daddy Is a Pretzel, http://www.cricketmag.com/ProductDetail.asp?pid=1048 Yoga and the Special Child, http://www.specialyoga.com/ Yoga for Children, http://www.yoga.com/store/product.asp?Product_ID=1435&Category_ID=315 --- Belinda Y. Hughes http://belinda-y-hughes.tripod.com/ Author_Belinda@yahoo.com ======================================================= 3. Nutrition Corner: Menopause Anxiety & Black Cohosh ======================================================= Can black cohosh help ease the anxiety that comes with menopause? That’s what researchers at the National Institutes of Health (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier# NCT00120458) want to find out. Although the study is already underway, the site says they’re still recruiting participants. If you’re a menopausal woman over 18, who is currently experiencing menopause and menopause-related anxiety symptoms, you could be eligible to help answer this question. Do not apply if you have: • Any form of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) unrelated to menopause • Onset of GAD at least 3 years prior to menopause or at least 5 years after menstruation has stopped • Alcohol or drug dependence within 3 months prior to study entry • Allergy to black cohosh • History of hormone replacement therapy • Current use of vaginal estrogen cream or phytoestrogens • Current use of tranquilizers, antidepressants, or antianxiety therapies • Abnormal uterine bleeding • History of estrogen-dependent cancer • History of endometrial hyperplasia (abnormal increase in cells) or endometrial cancer • Rapidly growing uterine fibroids • Abnormal finding upon gynecological examination that would interfere with the study • Abnormal breast examination or mammogram • Any unstable medical condition Contact: Depression Research Unit University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-3309 Recruiting Jay D. Amsterdam, MD 215-662-3462 jamsterd@mail.med.upenn.edu (Principal Investigator) Maryanne Giampapa, BA 215-662-2835 mgiampap@mail.med.upenn.edu Source: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/show/NCT00120458?order=14 --- Belinda Y. Hughes http://belinda-y-hughes.tripod.com/ Author_Belinda@yahoo.com ======================================================= 4. ADS ======================================================= HEALTH FOODS online. http://www.mynsp.com/belinda/ KIDS’ YOGA CAMP is tentatively scheduled for July 10-14, 2006, with classes at midday. Independent Kripalu affiliate studio. http://www.yogalakecharles.com/ A Course In Miracles Pathways of Light Program Catalog, Miracles Practitioner Courses, Home Study Courses, Email updates of Pathways news, and the Quarterly Miracles News magazine: http://pathwaysoflight.org Travel 4 Less Virtual Travel Agency. Please mention Belinda Hughes. Ellie Stalker RTA, Travel Consultant www.elliestravel4less.com elliestalker@hotmail.com Curious about angels, “coincidences,” dreams, miracles, and the power of prayer? Living Proof, is taking readers by surprise. Only $5.95. FREE Chapter! http://booklocker.com/books/1979.html ADS FOR $5.95! $5.95 - one week in Blessed Health – The Ezine http://belinda-y-hughes.tripod.com/ ======================================================= 5. CONTACT BLESSED HEALTH – THE EZINE ======================================================= Belinda Y. Hughes Author_Belinda@yahoo.com PO Box 6924 Lake Charles, LA 70606-6924 http://belinda-y-hughes.tripod.com/ Author_Belinda@yahoo.com Copyright 2006-2010, Belinda Y. 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