Health PinUp™, Issue 5, Vol. 1: Spring Awakenings, March 2010
Embrace Your Inner Brilliance
Spring is the perfect time to embrace your inner brilliance and allow yourself to shine. The easiest way to do this is to do what you love when it comes to your career, hobbies, social events, and the like. Once you start to follow your passions you will realize the amazing possibilities of each and every day. Start by visualizing what this would look like, gain clarity, and then begin to feel the wonderful freedom from being stuck in a rut. You can start this exercise on your own, with friends, and even with the help of a health/life coach (so feel free to call Marianne Bellino, 917.250.0267). Oh and don't miss out on a Spring Into Shape 6-week Fusion Intensive course, details below..
Spring Cleaning
Most people think of their homes when they think of spring cleaning, but your body also needs a purge. There is a saying that goes, "You have to get rid of the old to make way for the new." So if you are feeling stuck or stagnant in your life, first start with spring cleaning your home, it's tactical and allows you to immediately see and feel positive change. Go through your stuff, throw out those things you haven't touched in year, and recognize how great you feel when welcomed by a serene, open, clean, and refreshing environment. Work with Marianne if you need help with office/closet/kitchen makeovers.
Just as we accumulate "stuff" in the form of outgrown clothes, magazines, rusty bicycles, tools and random keepsakes, our bodies also accumulate old food residues and toxins that need to be cleaned out. To spring clean your body, give it a break from rich and complicated foods by either cleansing or fasting for a short period of time. Cleansing means paring down your food to just simple fruits and vegetables, lots of water and perhaps whole grains. Fasting means limiting most foods and drinking lots of water, fresh vegetable and fruit juices, teas and soups. Without much energy going toward digestion, more energy is available to the rest of your body and mind. Cleansing and fasting can sharpen your concentration and help you gain insight. It can improve immune function and digestion. Work with Marianne to do this the right way.
Recipe of the Month: Prep Once, Eat Multiple Times
Interested in cleansing but don't know where to start? Then try this fruit/nut smoothie. Modify this recipe as you like by adding or eliminating items. Ingredients: 1 banana, 1 cup soy or rice milk, 1 cup berries, 1 cup diced melon, 1/2 cups almonds, 2-4 ice cubes. Mix in blender for 1-2 minutes and serve. Examples of additional ingredients: 1 spoonful of bee pollen/coconut oil/flax seed oil; a scoop of: spirulina powder, protein powder. Put your leftovers in the freezer and eat as a healthy alternative to ice cream.
Spring Into Shape: A 6-Week Fusion Intensive
Get ready this spring to: set and accomplish goals, improve your knowledge about nutrition, and get stronger and leaner. Invest in your health and learn easy nutrition tips to significantly improve your well-being while engaging in an intense fitness routine of gyrotonics and running. Taught by Kinespirit Owners Jen Daly & Chantal Deeble and BNBS Owner Marianne Bellino, this 6-week bootcamp style fusion intensive will inspire you to embrace simple lifestyle changes that result in big mind and body improvements. For more information and to register call 212.228.5787 or email madisonpark@kinespirit.com. Just $540 for 18 sessions if you register by March 15th.
