People retreat for as many reasons as there are retreats. The trick is to have an idea what you’re looking for and use the time you put your life on hold to kick start or speed up your physical fitness and flexibility, your mental peace, your emotional stability and spiritual healing. Sound like too much to ask for? Just escape your usual busy-ness, open yourself to healing and expect the unexpected.
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Micha Chan embodies the calm, spiritual energy we are all lacking in Hong Kong. He discovered yoga for himself in 2001, by 2004 was teaching, and his career has included studying with numerous famous instructors around the world, notably in India. Micha has distilled his understanding and experience into a unique yoga style which focuses on combining body alignment and the harnessing and control of prana energy in his heartfelt classes of PRANA Flow Yoga at Flex.
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Usually when people see the word “detox” they automatically think juice cleanse. However, a proper liver cleanse is very different from a juice cleanse; it is a food and herb cleanse, using carefully prescribed clean foods, herbs and nutrients. There is no need to starve to cleanse your liver! That’s the beauty of a proper liver and gallbladder cleanse, using the finest supplements only sold to registered homeopaths. To intensify the effects of the actual cleanse prescription, it is recommended that those on a liver cleanse take daily, physical activity to produce detoxifying sweat, however this is not crucial for the cleanse to be effective.
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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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Without moving a muscle, right now do a quick body scan and take stock of your posture. If you’re sitting at your laptop or iPad, or on the move reading on your smartphone, the chances are your back is rounded, your shoulders hunched and your head forward. One of the ways Canadian physio and Flex instructor Donna Gee helps correct and retrain posture is by using tape. She explains a little about how taping can help improve posture here, prior to leading a workshop on Saturday 19th September.
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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.
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A delicious recipe fresh from Michelle’s kitchen, this fragrant curry is wheat free, dairy free, egg free and meat free. “Wheat, dairy and eggs are the most common food intolerances,” she says. Cook this up and you’ll have a tasty, rich dish ideal for supper on a cool autumn day. Michelle is a yoga instructor at Flex, as well as a Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine and a detox specialist, working from her holistic practice The Round Clinic in Wong Chuk Hang. She reminds us that everything tastes better and is definitely more nutritious when using organic products, so check out her company www.greenlittlefrog.com, which imports organic fruit and veggies from North Thailand and delivers to your home. www.theroundclinic.com, www.michellericaille.com
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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.”
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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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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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