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Pilates Changed The Way I Think About Movement

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Originally from the East Coast, Emily Lieginger grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. She worked as a public accountant before her husband and she moved to Tokyo in 2009 and then on to Hong Kong in 2011. “Since moving abroad I have been working at home to raise our three kids. Just this year my littlest is off to pre-school in the mornings. I’m experiencing a bit of empty nest syndrome, but not to worry, by 11:30 each morning the chaos has returned and my home is full again.”

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Flex Sponsors the BlueSeventy Ocean Swim Series 2015

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Taking the family to the beach is always fun, so why not up the excitement and join over 1,000 other swimmers at the Blueseventy Ocean Swim Series? This super-successful event has been running since 2004. “The Ocean Swim Series was created with the objective to offer competitive but fun open-water swimming race to swimmers of all ages and abilities,” says Tiffany Yam, business development manager of organizing company Revolution-Asia. There will be three races, held over the 30th August, 6th September and 27th September, all starting and finishing and around on Hong Kong Island.

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Pilates & Our Children: Fitness for the Future

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The health of today’s children is compromised by a culture of convenience and increasingly sedentary activity. Eating fast food, watching TV and playing video games has become habitual while a nutritious diet and physical activity is on the downslide.
A recent report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that approximately 30.3% of children between the ages of 6 to 11 are overweight and that 15.3% are obese. For adolescents between the ages of 12 to 19, 30.4% are overweight and 15.5% are obese.

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Slowing down for restorative yoga

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Half French, half Chinese and fully Canadian, Flex’s yoga instructor Heloise has been leading a number of restorative yoga classes since she joined back in June. Her combination flow-restorative Recharge & Restore classes have a dual offering of yoga workout and yoga rest, while Yoga Bliss is gentle yoga stretches, restoring the mind and body and including light massage and aromatherapy. For more peace and balance in your daily life, mentally and spiritually as well as physically, explore restorative yoga in one of Heloise’s classes.

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Support the Oceans

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This year the Jax Sheko Challenge celebrates its ninth year on July 11th and Flex is sponsoring! With the largest amount of pre-registered participants in the competition’s history, the 2015 open water swimming, ridge running and ocean paddling ‘trisolothon’ will be simultaneously highlighting the importance of preserving the world’s oceans more strongly than ever before. “Hong Kong’s biggest natural asset is the ocean, yet for years we have not treated it in that manner,” says Doug Woodring, race director and Director and Co-founder of Ocean Recovery Alliance.

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How Pilates Helped Me Be A Better Opera Singer

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Joyce Wah-Sheung Wong has been living in Hong Kong for seven years since relocating back here from the US. A professional opera singer for over eight years, she is a regular freelance singer and often works with Opera Hong Kong. She is currently playing the part of Extra Nun in the cast of The Sound of Music, which is playing until 21st June, and will be singing the role of Despina in the upcoming performance of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte on August 30th at City Hall.

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5 Experts Answer: Can Yoga Help You Lose Weight?

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This article from Live Science talks to five experts who give their opinion on whether a yoga practice can help with weight loss, even though yoga isn’t a high impact, cardio sport. Read their advice on choosing the more physically challenging classes running 75-90 minutes, such as Ashtanga, Vinyasa or Power yoga, and how the more mental, even spiritual, effect yoga has on turning the focus on oneself, can increase your self-awareness and mindfulness when it comes to the actual act of what you eat in the first place.

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