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...have a lot more health problems down the road compared to boys particularly because they don’t get involved with physical activities when they’re young,” said Troychansky. The day’s main activities consisted of four workshops on nutrition, yoga, body images, and track and tennis, as well as a panel and lunch. Harvard students involved with the Girls’ FitNut program and Project HEALTH ran the workshop on nutrition, which emphasized the concept of balance in a healthy lifestyle. A makeshift scale was used to illustrate the need...
...said. “Group exercise wasn’t a big deal. Now, we have an indoor cycling room, and seven or eight classes a day, classes fill up. There is huge demand.” According to Murdock, Harvard now offers 20 different classes such as yoga, pilates, and interval training that meet 47 times a week. Murdock also said all the instructors are nationally certified. Certification requirements vary—yoga instructors spend 600 hours training, while other instructors might only train for a weekend. “Being certified basically just ensures that you know...
...space,” she says. “The dance program as it was wasn’t going to be able to function any more [without the new Center].”The Harvard Dance Program is home to courses ranging from ballet and tap to hatha yoga and West African dance, led by an illustrious selection of professional instructors. It also offers Harvard courses for credit; this semester Bergmann is teaching Dramatic Arts 14, “The Art of Movement and Design.”“We offer a whole array of classes...
...earnestness and mischief to the realm where it is most essential and most rare: the search for God. When he determined to dedicate himself to the Swami, he made it plausible by remembering that he "hated anything which sounded like 'religion'" and "had always regarded Vedanta philosophy, or yoga, as the ultimate in mystery-mongering nonsense." Here is the perfect skeptic's guide to faith, in which even the most vaporous of concepts is rendered with a brilliant everyday lucidity ("The Ego...is like a man who will stand right in front of you at a horse race...
...called relaxation response, a shift within the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic dominance (the fight-or-flight response) to parasympathetic dominance (the heart rate slows, blood pressure falls and metabolism and immunity are optimal). You can evoke the relaxation response in many ways: by working on your breathing, practicing yoga, taking biofeedback training, floating in water or stroking a cat or dog that you love...