Yoga and meditation instructor Susan Ginsberg said she found a higher calling when she started a special business in 2007, helping cancer patients and those with illnesses cure their anxiety through the power of breathing. Ginsberg’s program, Stop and Breathe, teaches people the proper way to breathe deeply as a tool for relaxation. “I was a yoga teacher previously, and I started working with a ...

Flight delayed for another three hours? Just breathe deeply.

A winter's bloom, courtesy of Times-Picayune photographer Eliot Kamenitz

In this week’s Torah portion, we meet a frustrated and dejected Moses. God’s reluctant leader of the Jewish people cannot convince Pharaoh to free the Israelites from bondage, no matter how emphatically he proclaims, “Let my people go.”

It's been a week since I visited the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre and the braid of cedar around my wrist is still there. The bracelet reminds me to breathe more deeply. It reconnects me with the sense of expansiveness I felt the second I walked through the Centre's giant carved doors.

It's been a week since I visited the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre and the braid of cedar around my wrist is still there. The bracelet reminds me to breathe more deeply. It reconnects me with the sense of expansiveness I felt the second I walked through the Centre's giant carved doors.

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Exercise is easy. Anyone can do it. The time to start is now. Say those three sentences again and again until they play like a Gaga song, wrap around your brain and lift you off the couch. And please, do not use lack of energy as an excuse.

Yoga and meditation instructor Susan Ginsberg said she found a higher calling when she started a special business in 2007, helping cancer patients and those with illnesses cure their anxiety through the power of breathing.Ginsberg’s program, Stop and Breathe, www.stopandbreathe.org, teaches people the proper way to breathe deeply as a tool for relaxation.“I was a yoga teacher previously, and I ...

Layer of almond streusel gives this moist apple cake a slight crunch. Why does the smell of apples cooking speak to us so deeply? When an apple dessert is in the oven, the entire household becomes enchanted with the smell.