Rockport Town Manager Jon Duke submitted the following newsletter to the Rockport Select Board in advance of its Jan. 8 regularly scheduled meeting. EMS Workshop The Board is meeting next Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the library for a workshop on.
On Wednesday, Jan. 10, at 2 p.m., Rockport Public Library will host a free program called “Simple Ways to Calm Your Nervous System.” Local wellness coach Hester Kohl Brooks will
ROCKPORT The holidays can make anyone feel stressed, overwhelmed, and exhausted and some people feel that intensity regularly. On Wednesday, Jan. 10, at 2 p.m., the Rockport Public Library will host a free program called “Simple Ways to Calm.
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If you’re a passionate yoga practitioner, you’ve probably noticed the benefits of yoga. Maybe you’re sleeping better or getting fewer colds or just feeling more relaxed and at ease. But if you’ve ever tried telling a newbie about the benefits of yoga, you might find that explanations like “It increases the flow of prana” or “It brings energy up your spine” fall on deaf or skeptical ears.
As it happens, Western science is starting to provide some concrete clues as to how yoga works to improve health, heal aches and pains, and keep sickness at bay. Once you understand them, you’ll have even more motivation to step onto your mat, and you probably won’t feel so tongue-tied the next time someone asks you why you spend time on your mat.
Leslie Rangel loved her job as an on-air reporter at a television station in Oklahoma City. But covering devastating fracking-related earthquakes, chasing tornadoes, and interviewing people on their worst days started to take a toll on her.
Rangel found some balance in the yoga classes she’d taken since her days as a student at the University of Texas at Austin back in 2008. Then, in 2015, she started a 200-hour yoga teacher training at Ashtanga Yoga Studio in Norman, Oklahoma, and something clicked.
“The big question posed to us as students was, ‘How are you living your yoga off the mat?’ ” says Rangel, who is now a morning anchor for a television station in Austin. The training led her to completely reevaluate her life. “I knew that there was a way to continue in this mission of journalism, but to have it be different.” She began applying yogic principles to her reporting life: meditating and using pranayama techniques like