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The Nooner: A Weekday, 30 Minute Healthy Habit Practice
Starting Monday, February 22nd | 12:00 – 12:30pm Eastern Time
Join Norma Harris and Dan Phillips on Zoom (232042 passcode) every weekday from 12:00 – 12:30PM ET for a routine of brief body and mind exercises. You may come and go as it works for you and there is no registration.
Here’s how it goes:
12:00 Dr. Bush’s 4 Minute Exercise
12:05 Yoga* or Stretching
12:15 Deep Breathing
12:20 Peaceful Abiding Meditation
12:25 5 Minute Walk
12:30 All Done!
Some of the benefits:
Short, high-intensity workouts (HIIT), like the 4 Minute Workout, have been shown to be very effective in improving our cardiovascular health.
Deep Breathing exercises have been shown to decrease heart rate and blood pressure, increase lung endurance and strength, and release endorphins that improve your mood. Breathing may also help immune system health and help decrease stress levels. It is important that we keep our immune system and lungs healthy. A simple way to do this is by doing daily breathing exercises to improve lung health. Lung health is a significant factor in the severity of complications that are associated with respiratory infections like COVID-19.
Breathing through the nose has been shown to increase the concentration of a gas called nitric oxide in the airway which studies have shown to reduce the ability of certain viruses to replicate. Deep breathing (especially a deep exhale) changes the pressure in the lungs and helps the lymphatic system to better clean out the extra fluid or debris that sometimes builds up and causes congestion in the lungs.
Exercise has been shown to be beneficial to the Microbiome, which is so essential to our health.
All practices are timed with some flexibility, and you can substitute movements of your personal preference for any that we are leading. Our purpose is to make a habit of these easy ways to establish and maintain health.
Also, pease join us on the first Tuesday night of the month from 7:30 – 8:30PM ET to go deeper and engage in discussion.
By Donation to the Common Ground Meditation Center.
*We will use the Shamatha Yoga routine for our yoga exercise. It is simple and short and done entirely in standing. You can use any yoga or stretching routine that you wish for these 10 minutes. If you want to follow this particular Shamatha Yoga practice, you can purchase the pictorial instructions from Kalapa Media.
Questions? normaharris108@gmail.com | phillips.dan2@gmail.com