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Community Fitness Mental HealthSix amazing places to try outdoor yoga in Abu Dhabi

December 1, 202111 min

With amazing weather and gorgeous settings, Abu Dhabi is a sensational place for some outdoor yoga. Feeling the sun on your back while you’re moving into a vinyasa just makes that rush of energy feel extra powerful, so why not give it a try while the temperatures are still perfect? Here are six of the most incredible places to flow in the fresh air: Cove Beach Abu Dhabi This sizzling beach club might be...

by Ann Marie McQueen

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Community Mental Health Uncategorized‘Addiction really is anything that we do repeatedly that is an escape hatch from pain’

November 22, 202117 min

When Dubai-based Canadian Nancy Zabaneh moved from corporate banking to the wellness world, it was a deep dive. She’s a Kundalini yoga instructor and a compassionate inquiry therapist, practicing a psychotherapeutic approach founded by the Canadian physician, author, speaker and addiction specialist Dr Gabor Maté. People usually think of drugs or alcohol when they think of addiction. But as Nancy explains, whatever we use to escape from pain is an addiction. “When we use it repeatedly, to...

by Ann Marie McQueen

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Community Fitness‘Bullying helped me create a mental toughness’

November 10, 202120 min

Nuno Costas Fernandes knows a thing or two about hard work and overcoming the odds: as a perennially overweight youngster, he was often bullied and terrible in sports. But as he told The Livehealthy Podcast recently, he managed to overcome a painful and unhealthy start to earn a master’s in electronic and telecommunications engineering and become one of the most popular indoor cycling instructors in Dubai. After getting the entrepreneurial spirit and ease with people from his...

by Anna Pukas

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Community HealthFrom life of the party to Sober Yoga Girl

October 20, 2021116 min

Only after she quit drinking alcohol did party girl Alex McRobert understand how alcohol had affected her mental health since her teens and it led her to become a coach for others who want to be sober.

by Ann Marie McQueen

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Community Mental HealthSelf-care comes full circle — for women AND men

September 9, 202116 min

Women's circles are an ancient ritual that is been revived to help women cope with struggles in the pandemic and the pressures of modern life

by Anna Pukas

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Community Fitness Food HealthLivehealthy’s top 10 stories you keep on clicking

July 11, 202118 min

Everything has been up for discussion since Livehealthy launched three years but these are the articles that really got people clicking on to our site

by Georgie Bradley

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Health Mental HealthFalling asleep with Yoga Nidra

March 16, 20218 min

Yoga Nidra takes you to the space between wakefulness and sleep -- and it can galvanize and relax you at the very same time.

by Ann Marie McQueen

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Fitness Food Health9 fun things to get excited about in 2021

January 25, 202113 min

A pandemic won’t stop the UAE from producing new obstacle courses, parkour coaching, silent yoga, or delicious vegan and gluten-free treats. With social distancing, safe delivery and all the precautionary measures taken, here are a range of new things to try. Trampoline tricks Bounce is giving everyone the chance to learn parkour and trampoline tricks via a new 10-week Ninja Squad program as part of its Freestyle Academy. The program caters to all ages, and...

by Mark Lomas

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Fitness Health Mental Health‘Most men never take the time to just stop and breathe’

January 15, 202111 min

Carlos Mendez Esquivel understands what it is to be a yoga skeptic. When his brother came back from college at age 18 expounding the virtues of the practice, he laughed off it off as just a way to meet girls. Fast forward two decades and Mendez is very much a convert. After going through a period of significant stress and anxiety in his life, his doctor in Mexico recommended he try yoga. That was 11...

by Melody Sylvain

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Community Mental Health‘I look forward to seeing more Black yoga practitioners’

August 9, 20205 min

Being Black in the yoga and wellness space is like being Black in many places: you often find that you’re the only one in the room and you regularly come up against discrimination. My experience as a student, both in the United States and in the UAE, has been that it is difficult to find truly inclusive wellness studios and spaces. It’s even more difficult to find Black representation among teachers. The cultural appropriation of...

by Melanie Swan

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Community Mental HealthThe problem with yoga gurus

August 2, 202010 min

For several years, the yoga world has been in a state of crisis, rocked by revelations of sexual abuse dating back decades. A Vice exposé is the latest outlet to level charges, this time against the founder of Yoga to The People, a pay-what-you-can chain of studios in multiple US states. The problems came to light via an anonymous Instagram account started by former employees, leveling charges of a toxic and manipulative workplace culture involving...

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