Yoga Poses for Beginners Pose #1 – Mountain Pose Mountain Pose with Upward Stretch – Stand straight up with your legs together or slightly parallel to each other, stretching your body. Open up your back and straighten your shoulders. Extend your spine from the top of your head to your tailbone. Lift your arms from…
Marilyn Monroe became world-famous for her curvy figure, but it may be surprising to know that keeping that alluring hourglass involved a lot of work. Just before she hit it big in ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’, Philippe Halsman photographed her for LIFE magazine, taking a few candid shots of her daily workout routine. One picture of…
IT’S the beginning of 2017 which means New Year’s Resolutions are on the cards, with many bound to be promising to get fit. Marylin Monroe Working out Rosemary Andree, a classical dancer and body culture expert demonstrating exercises using a treadmill in 1934 REX FEATURES 41 Around this time it seems working out in…
Art If “nature” refers to the essences of the world unchanged by humans (e.g., the river, the air), then “art” refers to the application of human will to nature (e.g., a house, a statue, a picture). Note that Emerson wrote in a time before the human impact on the environment was fully understood. Beauty In Nature,…
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1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle 2. The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost 3. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague 4. Great spirits have always…
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