Integrated Flexibility for the Runner

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Integrated Flexibility for the Runner.

Meditation Videos – Ananda Sangha

Meditation Videos – Ananda Sangha.

Learn to Meditate: A Simple Meditation Technique – Ananda Sangha

Learn to Meditate: A Simple Meditation Technique – Ananda Sangha.

Video: Kapalabhati | The Skull Shinning Breath

Kapalabhati is a pranayama practice as well as a shat kriya—one of the six cleansing actions of hatha yoga. With its emphasis on the exhalation, kapalabhati enhances elimination of volatile metabolic wastes and dispels sluggishness and congestion, while engaging the seat of apana in the lower belly.

Read Sandra Anderson’s companion article, Apana Vayu: The Anchoring Breath, for a grounding yoga routine that includes the practice of kapalabhati.

Video: Kapalabhati | The Skull Shinning Breath.

Audio | Guided Meditation

Audio | Guided Meditation.

Taking Antidepressants During Pregnancy Doubles Heart Defect Risk of Newborn

 
(NaturalNews) Women who take certain antidepressant drugs while pregnant may double their child’s risk of being born with a certain variety of heart defect, according to a study conducted by researchers from Aarhaus University in Denmark and published in the medical journal BMJ.

“Anyone who is pregnant or considering becoming pregnant and has any concerns about the treatment for depression should speak to their doctor,” said Cathy Ross of the British Heart Foundation.

Researchers compared the risk of birth defects in 1,370 children born to women who took at least one selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) while pregnant with the risk in 400,000 other children whose mothers had not taken any SSRIs while pregnant. They found that the drugs fluoxetine (marketed as Prozac), sertraline (marketed as Zoloft) and citalopram (marketed as Celexa) all significantly increased the risk that a child would be born with a defect in the septum, which separates the right and left halves of the heart.

Septum defects include a variety of conditions from minor blood vessel problems to outright holes in the heart. The researchers found that one extra septum defect would develop for every 246 pregnant women taking an SSRI during the time period from 28 days before through 112 days after conception.

Taking more than one SSRI drastically increased the risk of septum defects. While the risk of the defects was 0.5 percent in mothers not taking the drugs and 0.9 percent in those taking one drug (an 80 percent increase), it was 2.1 percent in mothers taking two or more (a more than 300 percent increase).

For the full story…

Taking Antidepressants During Pregnancy Doubles Heart Defect Risk of Newborn.

Stretch your booty

By Pam Mazzuca, BSC, CAT(C)

Keeping your muscles pliable isn’t the only reason you should stretch. In fact, loosening up your hips not only improves posture and decreases lower back pain, but it also helps build up your backside.

Between driving to and from work and relaxing on your couch, your hips are in a constant state of flexion. As your body adapts to these positions, your hip flexors shorten, your pelvis is pulled forward and your glutes and abs stretch and weaken. So what’s the solution here? Simple: Lengthen your hip flexors with an easy stretch. And while you’re stretching your hip flexors, it’s a good idea to stretch the other muscles that cross the hip joint. Loose hips will keep you feeling limber and young for years to come. So let the stretching begin!

via Robert Kennedy’s Oxygen Women’s Fitness.

Shopping – Made Easy

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This is how it works: enter an item you are looking purchase choose value or premiun stores and press enter key. What you get is a list of stores that carry that particular item.

Check it out… FLIT.COM

Also to try out is a new sample sale site visit: SWIRL.COM

Last but not least… Join the briday community at CHATTERBERRIES.COM
and find resources for dresses, beauty, flowers and planning advise.

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