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Featured Pose
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Tadasana
Tree
Improves posture and balance. Improves circulatory disorders. Relieves tension in neck and shoulders. Increases flexibility of ankles, knees, and hip joints. Strengthens internal oblique muscles to prevent hernia.
 
Food 4 Thought
Protein's Role in a Healthy Diet, Part 2:
Moving Closer to Center Stage

Until recently, protein got little attention. It was often overshadowed by fat, carbohydrates, and vitamins. That's changing. Lately, there's been an explosion of interest in protein, largely triggered by high-protein diets for weight loss.

Surprisingly little is known about protein and health. We know that adults need a minimum of 0.8 grams of protein for every kilogram of body weight per day to keep from slowly breaking down their own tissues. That's just over 7 grams of protein for every 20 pounds of body weight. Beyond that, there's relatively little solid information on the ideal amount of protein in the diet, a healthy target for calories contributed by protein, or the best kinds of protein.
 
Around the world, millions of people don't get enough protein. Protein malnutrition leads to the condition known as kwashiorkor. Lack of protein can cause growth failure, loss of muscle mass, decreased immunity, weakening of the heart and respiratory system, and death.
 
In the United States and other developed countries, getting the minimum daily requirement of protein is easy. Cereal with milk for breakfast, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, and a piece of fish with a side of beans for dinner adds up to about 70 grams of protein, plenty for the average adult.
 
Can you get too much protein? Digesting it releases acids that the body usually neutralizes with calcium and other buffering agents in the blood. Eating lots of protein, such as the amounts recommended in the so-called low-carb or no-carb diets, takes lots of calcium. Some of this may be pulled from bone. Following a high-protein diet for a few weeks probably won't have much effect on bone strength. Doing it for a long time though, could weaken bone. Although more research is clearly needed to define the optimal amount of daily protein, long-term high-protein diets should certainly be used with caution, if at all.
 
SOURCE: Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
 
JULY 2008
 
If you haven't yet noticed, as you progress in your hot yoga practice, there will be good classes that leave you feeling fabulous, and others that don't feel so great... A posture that you previously found easy, will start to challenge you, or you can't advance as far as you once did. Maybe you didn't eat healthfully, drink enough water, or get enough rest the day before -- and it leaves you feeling unusually drained during class. There's so many elements of our lives that influence how we feel and think, and even our physical ability in hot yoga class.
 
Remember to be positive and persistent in your hot yoga practice. Accept what your body will give you on any given day, without judgement, and do the best you can. The benefits of class will be bountiful even if you're not feeling great, or having your best class ever. Hot yoga is an ongoing practice. Good days and bad days are all part of the process in constantly improving, growing and evolving -- in and outside of the studio.
 
Namaste,
Jason, Monica, Stephanie, Lourdes, Lindsey, Nadia, Laura, Tracey, Jordan M., Jordan S., Bylle, and Erica

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Student of the Month
           Rayleen Downes
Our July Student of the Month is Rayleen Downes!
  • When did you start practicing hot yoga? 
    "I started practicing hot yoga in January 2004. A friend of mine was doing it, raved about it, and then brought me... I had been working out at the gym, but wanted to try yoga." Since then, Rayleen has done over 430 hot yoga classes!
  • How often do you practice? 
    Rayleen practices hot yoga 3 days per week.  
  • Why do you practice? What are the primary benefits you experience? 
    In the last year, Rayleen has lost 50 pounds doing hot yoga and Weight Watchers. She thinks that hot yoga has definitely complimented the changes to her diet, to facilitate the weight loss. She adds, "hot yoga helps me maintain body tone, gives me confidence in my body, and lowers my stress levels in working with high school students each day." (She's a high school, AP English teacher.)
  • How has your hot yoga practice impacted or changed your life?
    "My hot yoga practice has really boosted my self-confidence. And I've also made some great friends. I've found a great community of people at the studio."
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In the Know
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Surprising facts about the Fourth of July*
  1. Independence Day commemorates the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. However it was not declared a legal holiday until 1941. 
  2. Fireworks were made in China as early as the 11th century. The Chinese used their pyrotechnic mixtures for war rockets and explosives.
  3. Not all members of the Continental Congress supported a formal Declaration of Independence, but those who did were passionate about it. One representative rode 80 miles by horseback to reach Philadelphia and break a tie in support of independence.
  4. The first two versions of the Liberty Bell were defective and had to be melted down and recast. The third version rang every Fourth of July from 1778 to 1835, when, according to tradition, it cracked as it was being tolled for the death of Chief Justice John Marshall. 
* Taken from MSN.com