9:14 am, Jun 12, 2013
After a rough trail run or a day spent in an office cubicle, returning to a yoga mat just feels right. You know the benefits: Yoga increases flexibility, supplements physical fitness, and is a stress reliever—which are reasons why 20.4 million people in the U.S. are practicing yoga, according to the 2012 Yoga in America study released by Yoga...
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9:15 am, Apr 29, 2013
In this month's feature on kids' health, we showcased a number of programs that are focused on improving the physical well-being of children in our state's kids (see 5th Gear Kids, Cavity Free at 3, and the Immunize for Good campaign). We've also provided tips from local experts on addressing mental and behavioral issues. What we haven't...
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9:15 am, Apr 22, 2013
Colorado children's physical health (covered in our April feature "Get Well") is just one component of overall wellness parents worry about. Many are uncertain how to approach complex mental and behavioral issues—especially in today's quickly evolving culture. However, one Golden-based business—which began in 1977 when an...
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10:15 am, Mar 14, 2013
Going hand-in-hand with Colorado’s reputation for healthy living is the abundant roster of organic skincare lines coming out of the area. The latest one to cross my desk: Osmia Organics from Carbondale.A former emergency physician, Sarah Villafranco applied her knowledge of both chemistry and dermatology to launch a line of nontoxic, ethically...
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1:55 pm, Nov 27, 2012
What's the best way to keep kids fit? A local school thinks it has some answers. Greenwood Academy was recently chosen to be one of five national finalists who have a chance at winning $25,000 through the Henkel Helps Get Kids Fit program, beating out hundreds of schools to secure the spot. If it wins, the school will use the prize...
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2:54 pm, Nov 15, 2012
Author Dan Buettner believes you can add up to 30 years to your life—you just have to choose to do so. How we decide to spend our days, who we spend them with, and where we elect to call home all play a part in determining the length and wellness of our lives. Buettner, author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’...
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2:02 pm, Nov 7, 2012
Last night I clinked a glass of champagne in celebration and pretty much downed it. Then I picked up my neglected glass of wine and proceeded to polish that off as well. It was my third—over five or so hours…but still. This morning I woke up craving a glass of water and feeling decidedly less-than-stellar. It got me thinking about my alcohol...
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2:00 pm, Aug 23, 2012
Once you've felt the sun warming your skin during sun salutations or looked at an actual tree while in tree pose, it becomes pretty clear that yoga is meant for the outdoors. That's the thinking behind Yoga Rocks the Park, a nation-wide event bringing yoga and live music to urban parks in six major cities around the country.I recently practiced...
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10:20 am, Aug 21, 2012
Know anyone that has a certain aura about them? Chances are they do and David Stevens, an aura healer and meditation expert at Denver's Yoga of the Mind has more than 12 years of experience detecting those. He defines an aura as "the energy field that goes around and through us" that changes based on what we're doing and who we're...
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1:49 pm, Aug 8, 2012
Spa treatments are often about feeling grounded. Not so, during a float treatment at A New Spirit Wellness Center and Spa in the Highlands. The not-so-new treatment (it was developed in 1954) combines the relaxing benefits of a bath and meditation. During your 60-minute (or longer) treatment, you float in one foot of water that is...
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10:50 am, Jun 8, 2012
Rant: Why am I paying for a flat-screen TV at a dentist office? Like most people, heading to the dentist is never on the top of my priority list. They are going to tell me that despite my best efforts my notoriously porous chompers will require me to empty my pockets and endure a morning of drilling and an afternoon of a numb face. When a...
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11:01 am, May 23, 2012
In light of the "Tanning Mom" national paparazzi explosion earlier this month and some recent legislative discussion over proposed tanning restrictions in Colorado, it seems appropriate to note that May is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Here’s the thing: UV rays from a day out in the natural Colorado sunshine will certainly wreak havoc on...
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1:28 pm, May 16, 2012
Feel like you’re losing your competitive edge at work? Takes you twice as long to read and understand a document as it did 10 years ago? Are your kids performing beneath their grade level at school? This past January, we stumbled upon a place that offered help for these problems. We ran a story about LearningRx, which we referred to as Denver’s...
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10:49 am, Mar 26, 2012
At 5280, there must be something in the water. As of this writing, we have no fewer than four staffers who are or have recently been hobbled by back injuries, and that’s not including our production manager, who’s out this week after undergoing spinal surgery. Back woes are, of course, quite common. When I chronicled the herniated disc I suffered...
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11:39 am, Jul 28, 2010
Many Chaffee County residents probably wish Nestle was being held to the same standards as Christo and the late Jean Claude, the internationally renowned artists who plan to lay fabric panels along a 42.4 mile stretch of the Arkansas River. While the "Over the River" proposal remains bogged in the arduous federal environmental...
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