Tag: health

Yoga – Vinyasa style

  Sheila Axtman It’s February, a great month to celebrate the things that make you feel good: The people you love, chocolate and yoga. Practicing yoga releases endorphins in your brain. You feel relaxed and happy. Vinyasa yoga also improves proprioception, strengthens and stretches your muscles and you become more flexible. It helps you feel…

Healing with Essential Oils

Paullene Caraher The next oil sharing will be on February 7, the first Wednesday, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. We will be making a blend for digestion problems. As we age, we find we cannot easily digest certain foods. Sometimes the food is too rich, too coarse or maybe we cannot chew as well as we did…

Exercise to Latin and other rhythms

Lesly Holness Low impact and high energy. Burn calories and have fun at the same time! I exercise for confidence, strength and health. The feeling after a workout of accomplishment and stress relief is amazing. I guarantee you will have tons of fun and your stress level will go way down while your energy level…

Keep moving with Tai Chi

Kim Kubsch Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving! In our easy and gentle Tai Chi-Qigong class at Sun Lakes Country Club Mirror Room, we keep moving continuously for approximately one hour. Similar to a slow dance, but solo, all that matters is your safety…

Healing with Essential Oils

  Paullene Caraher The next oil sharing will be on January 10, the second Wednesday, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. We will be making two blends: one for appetite suppression and another for replenishing your energy. During the holidays, most of us enjoy the sumptuous foods that we don’t eat on a regular basis. Rich foods! Sweet…

Classes for better movement

  Noell Hyman I can’t tell you how excited I was when one of my Sun Lakes students this week showed me how much higher she can raise an arm that’s been giving her difficulty, just a few weeks after she started taking class. Our joints need two things to keep their proper mobility: Movement…

Medicare, Medicaid and related health benefit information

  Neil Tamber Personalized objective assistance is available to seniors, the disabled and caregivers provided by volunteer counselors especially trained by the Arizona Agency on Aging Benefits Assistance Program. Services include: * Basic information about Original Medicare, Supplemental (Medigap) policies, Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (Part “D”), Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO’s, etc.), AHCCCS (Medicaid), ALTCS (Arizona…

2018: Year of Illumination

  Rina Cupples WOW! 2018. 2 + 0 + 1 + 8 = 11. Symbolically, the number 11 represents Illumination. Wondering what might become illumined in the coming year? I am. Buried secrets coming to light, perhaps, or a medical discovery of a cure for an illness, found in a common plant, or a new,…

Join the Essential Oils Club

Vicki Vitality The Essential Oils Club gathered in December and made calming bath salts to help members unwind and relax during the busy holiday season. The group also enjoyed a timely presentation on the benefits of frankincense by Sun Lakes’ own Gail Edom. Frankincense has long been renowned as the “King of all Essential Oils.”…