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5 Experts Answer: Can Yoga Help You Lose Weight?

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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Meditation and mindfulness in busy lives

Blog, Lifestyle, Wellness

Rajesh is the Meditation and Life Enhancement Mentor at Koh Samui’s beautiful lifestyle retreat Kamalaya. Ahead of his workshop Creating & Sustaining Positive Habits, to be held at Flex Studio One Island South on 15th June, he talks us through introducing meditation and mindfulness into busy lives. 1. What’s the first thing you would say to someone who told you they have never meditated in their life? It is not true to say that we have never meditated. We could rather say that we haven’t done a conscious meditation practice.

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Flying trick or… Flying treat?

Blog, Fitness

Are you into performing? Or do you prefer a focused workout ‘in the zone’? Do you love the idea of flipping, inverting and twisting to a routine? Or do you simply want to fast-track your body to strength and flexibility? At Flex you’ll see both Aerial Arts and Flying Pilates on the class schedule. Which

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Back To School Healthy Lunchbox Recipe: Prawn Rice with Veggies

Blog, Nutrition

As the school year starts, we share a quick and easy recipe from nutritionist and chef Priscilla Soligo, who packs lunch boxes both for the kids and herself! Are you a “buy it out” or “bring it in” kinda person? Or both!? One of the recurring questions I get asked from my clients is how

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Recipe: Fruity French Chicken Salad

Blog, Nutrition

Bored of the classic Caesar salad? This fresh and fruity alternative was one of the most popular dishes on the menu at Fish & Meat. The beloved restaurant may no longer be around, but we can replicate our favorites like this French chicken salad at home. Head Chef Russell Doctrove would deliciously whizz up the

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HK$36,000 raised! Thank you Flex community!

Blog, Wellness

Huge thanks to everyone at Flex who participated in our Namaste Saturday in aid of Nepal. The day raised a breathtaking HK$36,000, which was sent through to humanitarian organization Karuna-Shechen on 13th May. “The generosity of everyone who took part was overwhelming,” said Heather, after the event. “We were so touched by the strong Flex

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Arms Race: Barre Exercises for Strong, Sexy Arms

Blog, Fitness

You’ll have the right to roll up your sleeves and bare chiseled ballerina arms with this 20-minute routine. Hot tip for spring training: You’ll soon be coveting “barre” arms. “Ballerinas have chiseled arms without unwanted bulk,” says Andrea Rogers, the founder of the newly opened Xtend Barre studio in Brooklyn, USA. Rogers adds one-pound weights

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Namaste Saturday – A Day of Support for Nepal

Blog, Wellness

9th May 2015 Flex Studio Island South and Central “It is devastating to see a crisis happening in a country filled with such beautiful people and lush countryside, especially one which has already suffered such a turbulent past. Many of us in Hong Kong have travelled to Nepal to experience this amazing country, and as such

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Why barre workouts are great for poise, grace and confidence…AND a chiseled body!

Blog, Fitness, Lifestyle

Take the discipline of dance and the principles of Pilates, add weights, a barre, and high-energy, meticulous instructing and tadaa!, you have a serious ballet workout. Rockell Williamson-Rudder, International Director at Xtend Barre in Sydney, shares her thoughts on what makes Xtend Barre in particular, such a unique and beneficial workout.

I joined the Xtend Barre© company in 2010 and it’s hard to believe where the time has gone! I was first attracted to Xtend Barre as it was the only…

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Blog, Fitness

Hope Patterson, Flex’s teen ambassador, is super excited to see Teen Xtend Barre© on the Flex schedule, and explains what it is about the class that she loves so much.

I’ve wanted to do Xtend Barre© since I watched my mum and aunts take the class. It looked like so much fun, but at the same time hard work! What I love the most is that during the warm up I get to use 1lb arm weights, which is adds some new lightweight training to my fitness regime. Apart from …