Lifestyle

Stuck for great Christmas gifts this year? Make 2016 yours, your family’s and your friends’ healthiest year yet by giving fitness and wellness related gifts. Here is Flex Studio’s exciting and festive list of 12 inspiring options, from mini stocking fillers to maxi gifts and wellness experiences. Our Christmas elves have been super busy selecting the very best treats, so all you have to do is wrap them up and put them under the tree ready to be discovered on Christmas day.

Take a gorgeously sunny Hong Kong day and add a beautiful alfresco location, superstar Flex yoga instructors, the USA’s YogaSlackers, Hong Kong’s most exciting wellness providers showcasing and selling healthy products, services, foods and drinks, and a wonderful crowd of Hong Kongers of all ages… and you have Flex’s first ever Family Yoga Festival! The

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Along with our wonderful classes in Slacklining, adult, teen and kids’ yoga, hoop and more, we now have over 35 health and wellness partners signed up to join us this Saturday 14th November at Cyberport Podium. Pre-register and pay for yoga classes in advance – spaces are filling up fast – or just turn up and enjoy a wonderful day of demonstrations, performances, wellness retail and deliciously healthy food, from 9am to 6pm. Plus all benefits go towards the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, so come and support a wonderful cause!

Prior to Michelle Ricaille’s upcoming workshop Understanding Food Intolerances: Symptoms and Remedies, here is some basic information on how to tell allergies, intolerances and sensitivities apart. While most food allergies cause relatively mild and minor symptoms, such as rashes or gastrointestinal discomfort, some allergies are more severe and can be life-threatening. Eight foods account for 90 percent of all food-allergic reactions: milk, egg, peanut, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, soy, and wheat.

A personal trainer, Elle Kealy has been in Hong Kong for eight years and started working at Flex at the beginning of the year. She leads HIIT Cardio Body Blast and Xtend Barre, putting her mixed dance and fitness background to good use. “I love movement,” she says. “I love finding ways for women to stay fit that are fun and engaging. The classes at Flex have a welcoming and inclusive vibe about them, and they’re achievable for all sorts of people with all sorts of fitness levels.”

VIE Active is one of our favorite apparel brands here at Flex. The mix of high performance fitness fabrics and the gorgeous, fashionable Bondi-cool look is a sure-fire winner. The apparel brand’s co-founder Noa Ries walks, or rather runs, jumps and leaps the talk, and here her beach workout session is taken from her blog.
There’s nothing like a beach session with your besties to motivate you to workout! VIE Active co-founder Noa, takes us through her favorite beach workout on the sand.