Gruninger: Surrender Pose Of The Month – Child’s Pose
Child’s pose. Courtesy photo
By JACCI GRUNINGER, MS, C-IAYT, ERYT500
Los Alamos
Child’s Pose is another of the poses that can help us turn inside and surrender. It is also not always as easy as it looks. Luckily, as always, there are ways to modify the posture.
In addition to surrender, Child’s Pose:
- Calms your mind and relieves stress.
- Helps release tension in your lower back.
- Stretches the muscles in your lower back, hips, and legs.
- Allows you to rest and rejuvenate.
- Enables you to feel the sensations of breathing into the back side of your body.
What you might not know about Child’s Pose is its story. Read More
Leonard: Not Your Average Fitness Tracker – Innovative Smart Health Technology That Will Blow Your Mind … Literally
By LAURA LEONARD
Doctor of Chiropractic
Los Alamos
Recent advances in wearable technology go way beyond steps, calories and heart rate. These devices read brainwaves and claim to improve cognitive function with rewards for creating focused brainwaves in the form of badges and points.
Does this sound like science fiction, a little like mind control? Not exactly, these devices are actually quite simple in function and not much different than fitness tracking watches. Worn as a sensing band around the head, these devices monitor brainwaves instead of pulse rate and steps. The fancy term for Read More
Helen Benson Thanks Los Alamos County Clerk’s Office
Los Alamos resident and Republican Helen Benson thanks the Los Alamos County Clerk’s Office for helping her complete her vote. Photo by Jody Benson
By JODY BENSON
League of Women Voters
Los Alamos
Today, Tuesday, June 7, is Election Day in the New Mexico Primary.
Helen Benson, a registered Republican, has never—ever—missed an election since she cast her first ballot in 1942. This primary election, however, she missed the signature box on the interior privacy envelope.
The Los Alamos Clerk’s Office called her; Helen retrieved her ballot. She correctly completed the information and submitted Read More
Beierschmitt: During Pride Month, A Reminder Of Why Diversity Matters
By KELLY BEIERSCMITT
Deputy Director for Operations
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Diversity is a critical component of every workplace.
As all leaders know, the more diverse employees’ backgrounds, ideas and experiences are, the more successful the organization is.
As a leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), I know this firsthand.
I’ve seen time and again how bringing together diverse teams where everyone has a voice results in more creative problem-solving and better team cohesion. It also bolsters morale.
That’s why the Laboratory is committed to creating a workplace Read More
Ryan Smelter Has Perfect Prediction In Weekly Pace Race
Runners take off Tuesday, May 24 in the ACRR weekly pace race at Firefighter’s Park. Courtesy/ACRR
ACRR News:
Ryan Smeltzer had a perfect prediction of 22:24 in the weekly pace race Tuesday, May 24 at Pinon Park (Rocket Ship) in White Rock.
Other accurate predictors:
- Cara Gattiker, 12, at 3 seconds off;
- Ted Atkins, Senior with a 15 second differential;
- Denise Robertson recording a 16 second difference; and
- Jacky Atkins at 24 seconds off
On the 1 mile course William Strother, 13, was the top finisher with a time of 9:55 and Morgan Treat, 11, was the first female at 10:30.
Paul Geimer was the best finisher Read More
Leonard: Hurting All Over? Two Powerful Anti-Inflammatory Herbs Worth Trying
By LAURA LEONARD
Doctor of Chiropractic
Los Alamos
Willow Bark is the active ingredient in willow tree bark is salicin, which was used in the 1800s to produce aspirin.
Salicin’s effects on pain take longer than aspirin to kick in, however some research points to the effects being longer lived.
Willow bark is considered a prodrug (metabolized to the active compound after ingestion) because it is converted in the lower intestine by intestinal bacteria to salicylic acid. Willow bark has been shown to reduce fevers, inflammation and pain.
“No serious adverse effects were reported from trials of Read More
Amateur Naturalist: The Growth Of Aspen
The aspen trees are about eight feet tall and a few feet from one other in the Quemazon mesa area that extends eastward from the rim of the Valles Caldera mountains. Photo by Robert Dryja
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
The Quemazon mesa area is a geologic thumb that extends eastward from the rim of the Valles Caldera mountains.
It has a relatively flat, sloping top that represents a kind of natural garden for plants growing after the Cerro Grande Forest fire from 22 years ago. Variations in the growth of plants can be seen over the summer. Groves of Aspen trees provide one variation for April and May.
Aspen Read More
