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Yoga for Detox
Most forms of vigorous exercise stimulate all three systems of elimination to some extent, thereby helping the body in its quest to detox. But yoga is particularly well-suited to keeping the waste-removal departments of the body functioning well.

3 Ways to Build Stress Resilience with Ayurvedic Ideas
In the West, stress has become a major contributor to disease and illness. Instead of stress reduction, Ayurveda prescribes a series of stress-prevention techniques. Try these three simple techniques to manage your stress more healthfully.

Who’s Your Mama? Gift Guide
Your mom's the best! The Who's Your Mama Gift Guide has just what she needs to keep going. Are you a mom? Working hard to balance it all? Treat yourself! You know you deserve it.

Detox Buyer’s Guide: Top Products to Help You Cleanse
Our intrepid tester tried them all — foot spas, detox baths, foot pads, workouts, foods and skin treatments — and asked experts how they work. A personal shopper’s lowdown on the detox scene.

Detox 101
Daily life produces toxins—there’s no way around that. The body has mechanisms for eliminating toxins, such as breathing, sweating, urinating and bowel movements, but sometimes it needs a little bit of help.

Spring Detox Foods & Shopping List
What to eat to feel better, boost fat burn and help prevent illness this spring! How to use spring’s harvest of low-fat, detoxifying sprouts, greens and berries to cleanse your body of toxins and impurities.

Detox Your Home: Best 5 First Steps
Green-cleaning queen Annie Bond says these five steps should be your first to detox your home and help avoid the suspected dangers of years of ‘normal’ exposure to household chemicals.

Kick Off Your Detox with a Restorative Twist
Twist your torso to help your body detox. Here’s how to do a restorative seated yoga twist to give your cleanse a gentle and painless jump-start.

Detox Without Fasting: 2 Easy Plans
Tips to help you make the most of nature's detox plan. How to do a daily cleanse and a seasonal or quarterly detox just by shifting your sleep schedule and eating some everyday detoxifying foods.

1-2-3 Detox for Radiance
Gone overboard with indulgences lately? Look radiant in 24 hours, luminous in 48, and positively sparkly in 72. Step-by-step plan gives 3 ways to detox plus 7 recipes.

Crazy Sexy Cancer: Tips from Survivors
It's not your typical cancer book. Kris Carr and her “Cancer Babe Posse” share hard-earned insights, hints, “hell-yeahs” and real, fun, crazy, sexy ways to live with cancer.

How to Break Through Toxic Emotions
Life coaching expert and author Debbie Ford helps you identify which of the 11 emotions are most impacting your life — and shows you important steps to breaking free of them.

8 Household Cleaning Agents to Avoid
A surprising number of the most harmful toxins ever created are found right in our own backyard — indeed, right inside your mop closet.

10 Ways to Detoxify Your Body
Time to cleanse? Start with this list of simple ways to eliminate toxins from your body, recommended by two naturopathic doctors. Also includes info on how detoxification works, which detox program is right for you, and more to help you detox safely.



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Easy Detox Exercise
Learn one of 13 gentle yet powerful exercises for flushing out toxins. Led by qigong experts Francesco Garripoli and Daisy Lee Garripoli.

Crazy Sexy Cancer
Possibly the most honest first-person account of (and advice on) dealing with cancer. With lessons and advice from actress/photographer Kris Carr's own journey giving cancer a "makeover".

How to Detox With an Ayurvedic Diet
Dr. John Douillard shares foods and meals that are key to a successful ayurvedic detox diet, and describes the "comfort" foods that can be harmful to the body if eaten in excess.

Lose Weight With Ayurveda
Find out which foods help you get on track to losing weight with an ayurvedic diet. Also, Dr. John Douillard explains how you can prepare well-balanced meals you can use to eat healthy every day.

Seated Twist: How & Why It's Good for You
Yoga experts Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman show a live audience how a seated twist yoga pose can help you detox, relieve stress and ease or prevent neck pain.


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Take a Vacation (Just Not From Recycling)

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Smudge Out the Old for the New

Lighting dried white sage, blowing out the flames and then fanning the embers to smoke as much as possible to pervade a room is an age-old way to change the energy and vibration of a place. Called smudging, smudging is traditionally used to purify an area of negativity and to induce a feeling of serenity. [...]

Core Salutations Torch Holiday Calories in Less Time!

They are FINALLY over! Don’t worry if you consumed too many calories this season. Holiday weight gain doesn’t stand a chance against my turbo-boosted Sun Salutations. Adding core-toning work in the transitions between poses in the classic Sun Salutation series amps up the benefits of all the poses. I call these Core Salutations. When you follow [...]

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Beauty, Friendship, Green, and Healing: My Most Memorable Good Memory of 2008

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