The plank pose is a powerful core strengthener that you can do anywhere. The core muscles include the abdominals, the back, and pelvic muscles.
Synergy Strengthen: Plank Pose or Yoga Push-up
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Cold Weather Kale Salad
This tasty salad has a whole avocado massaged in. It softens the leaves and creates a deliciously creamy texture.
Massage Therapy and Temporo-mandibular Joint (TMJ) pain or dysfunction
Our jaws. We use them to eat with. We use them when we talk and to move our faces for expression. We often clench them when we’re stressed, or working hard, or often without even knowing it. Many of us even clench them in our sleep.
Exercises to Loosen up the Jaw
Although small, the muscles surrounding the jaw are made up of the same dense fibers as all other muscles. Kneading, or gently stripping them from the top of the joint down into the belly of the cheek will relax them, and help encourage painless range of motion.
Synergy Reads: Eating Animals
If the latest E. coli outbreak and massive beef recall isn’t enough to make you question the mass production of factory farmed animals then I highly recommend reading Jonathon Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals.