Take Action to Increase Your Healthspan

NUTRITION • MINDFULNESS • YOGA • MASSAGE • PHYSICAL ACTIVITY • SOCIAL CONNECTION

Healthspan: the longest lifespan with optimal health status.

Personal Wellness: Physical Activity, Yoga & Social Connection

Yoga

Modern yoga is most commonly associated with the physical practice of asana, a series of postures often weaved together in styles such as Vinyasa Flow or Ashtanga. Asana practice is generally intended to build strength and stamina, to improve flexibility, coordination and balance, and to relax the body. It is fundamentally a practice of breath.

Movement of the body is essential to health - while we think of gym workouts, movement is a way of life that counters our environment that promotes sedentary living in front of screens, in offices, and in cars. We have become isolated from meaningful relationships and purposeful interaction with others but those interactions increase the quality of life and prolong healthspan.

Personal Wellness: Nutrition, Mindfulness, Stress, Sleep, & Massage

Massage

Massage is the manipulation of the body's soft tissues. Massage techniques are commonly applied with hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearms, feet, or a device. The purpose of massage is generally for the treatment of body stress or pain, and for recovery following physical and sports activity.

It is difficult to achieve success without personal health and wellness. The body and mind that functions optimally is the base for performance. Stress is normal in life, but constant, unrelenting stress causes hormonal imbalances that degrade health and impede success. Simple, impactful practices and techniques including foundations in nutrition, mindfulness, yoga, sleep hygiene and other self-care modalities result in optimal physical health that supports a thriving life.  

Spirit: Love, Grace, Humanity

Not all will connect to a spiritual dimension in their lives. At a mechanistic level, we are a set of processes set in motion by birth, subject to the environment and experiences that move us one way or the other. We recognize genetic predispositions, and the impacts of human experiences such as trauma that change our brains and even our biochemistry, but we fail to recognize that our origins lie in the ultimate antecedent cause — God and that God’s involvement isn’t and hasn’t ever been passive. God’s love and grace sustains all humanity, our world and universe.

Work: Purpose, Meaning, Productivity

Our work to survive is basic, in some instances, food, water, shelter are the main endeavor of life. We are now mostly economic beings whose work and productivity bring us health and wealth. At some levels beyond basics, it may also bring meaning and purpose to living. Economic productivity is a fundamental part of health and well-being, yes, as it relates to basic needs, but also to provide structure and context to personal learning and development, creativity, communication, and change.

Place: Spaces, Environments, Engagement

Place is where you are and where you have been. Our bodies occupy space and these spaces are environments that support our lives or hinder them. A home that is safe, with tools and utilities that support hygiene and health is where care and nurture can occur. It is the base from which we launch to other places and environments for work, school, worship, recreation, and play. It is where we connect interpersonally and engage collectively and societally. In our era, it is also electronic and global. It is also where, alone, we may connect internally within ourselves.