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What Is WalkFit and Who Is It For?
I'm nursing a bit of an injury to my achilles at the moment and have had to cut down on how far I walk each day
Friday I was even unsure I would be able to do my class
But WalkFit was actually the perfect thing - enough to mobilise my ankle without over-doing it!
One class member last week also found it the perfect way back into exercise after illness
That's one reason WalkFit is great
For others, it's about easing in to a new fitness habit
Some of the participants who started my Fit in Fi…
Hypopressives for anxiety - Annmarie's story
I started to suffer with anxiety and obviously that brings in struggling to breathe sometimes and then panic attacks and that kind of thing.
I was also struggling with putting weight on and was mindful that I needed to do some exercise - I wanted to lose weight but also had anxiety going on.
I felt like all the other kind of exercise that I did - swimming, joining the gym, walking - they just never hit the anxiety.
So I would do them and never feel relaxed or feel calm. And then I would go t…
Is is good to go barefoot?
I had a Balinese-inspired massage last week and the beginning of the ritual was to put a heated eye mask on
I then enjoyed being massaged with small and large bamboo sticks as well as with hands.
Then the time came to roll over...
Weirdly, having an eye mask on made it really difficult for me to turn!
That small dulling of one of my senses affected the rest of my body, especially my proprioception - where I was in space. In the end I had to lift it off my eyes so that I felt safe to move!…
Walk this way!
For those of you, like me, with older kids who rea…
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