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Nourish and Heal

Why I got active on the holistic beauty journey

October 8, 2014

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So you might be wondering why I am telling you to get off your bum today? And I don’t mean it in the nasty sense, in fact, it is with your best interest at heart beautiful.

Because it is has been proven that the amount of time you spend sitting, will have a long term effect on many areas of your health from the quality of your digestion to your posture.

Two things that are important for natural beauty.

Spending much less time at a desk was one of the major things I committed when leaving my Architecture career two years a go. This was both a scary and exhilarating moment, because as an Architect, the desk had become my ‘home’ for creating new spaces. How was I going to feel without one?

Active Beauty

Desk Yoga – 5 Minutes To Relieve Neck & Shoulder Tension

April 24, 2014

desk with glasses resting on a mousepad

It’s a undeniable part of modern life – we all spend gigantic amounts of time sitting in front of computer screens, tap-tapping away. Honestly, as a book worm and introvert, I’m not complaining, I get lots of great stuff accomplished in front of my macbook. Regardless of how much I love what I am working on, at the end of a long day I feel a like I have been carrying bags of sand on my shoulders. Sound familiar?

Better posture, proper work set up and regular breaks are all necessary preventative steps to reduce neck and shoulder pain. However, no matter how much prevention you put in, we humans are still not designed to be fixated in front of a glowing box for hours on end. The following is what I call my 5-minute-fix for sitting in front of the computer all day.