September has been very exciting with the launch of jbyogafit.com on 16 September 2011. I am very grateful and thankful about all the fantastic feedback I have been getting about the website in the past 2 weeks. I have put my heart and a lot of work into jbyogafit.com – and I am very happy to be able to share my passion for fitness & wellbeing with you and offer you a great range of workout videos – with new videos being added regularly.

The workout videos are a combination of Solomon Yogalates™, traditional Iyengar Yoga and Pilates – And it is this combination that creates a truly amazing, unique fitness experience!

It is that fusion of Yoga and Pilates that has helped to turn my health around – getting rid of my chronic neck, shoulder and back pain. And hopefully it will also have a positive effect on your life too!

Have a great day. Namaste.

Jacqueline

Find 15 minutes for exercise
 
If you're finding it hard to muster the motivation to exercise, it's worth reminding yourself that just fifteen minutes a day can add three years to the length of your life.
BY Tan Ee Lyn | Aug 17, 2011
 
Doing just 15 minutes of moderate exercise a day may add three years to your life, a large study in Taiwan has found.
Most people struggle to stick to the standard guideline of 30 minutes a day of exercise, five days a week, and experts hope that by identifying a lower dose, more people will be motivated to get off the couch.

Lead researcher Chi Pang Wen of Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes said dedicating 15 minutes a day to a moderate form of exercise, like brisk walking, would benefit anyone. "It's for men, women, the young and old, smokers, healthy and unhealthy people. Doctors, when they see any type of patient, this is a one-size-fits-all type of advice," Wen told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Wen and colleagues, who published their findings in medical journal The Lancet on Tuesday, tracked over 416,000 participants for 13 years, analysing their health records and reported levels of physical activity each year.

After taking into account differences in age, weight, sex and a range of health-related indicators, they found that just 15 minutes of moderate exercise a day increased life expectancy by three years compared to those who remained inactive.
"The first 15 minutes ... the benefits are enormous," Wen said.

Daily exercise was also linked to a lower incidence of cancer, and appeared to reduce cancer-related deaths in one person in ten.
"Sooner or later, you are going to die. But compared to the inactive group, the low exercise group has a reduction of 10 percent in cancer mortality," Wen said.

Wen said the Taiwan findings were consistent with similar studies in the past using Caucasian participants, but his team was the first to come up with the minimum level of exercise necessary. "None of the other papers were able to conclude ... what specific amount of exercise would be enough. Ours is the first one to say that 15 minutes would be enough," he said.

"We hope this will make it more attractive for inactive people, that they can allocate 15 minutes a day, rather than 30, which is more difficult."

- Reuters
 
Note: The majority of the workouts on jbyogafit.com are between 10 and 20 minutes.


New videos added
Anxiety Practice
Duration: 27:27 mins
Benefits:
· Calming
· Reduces stress and anxiety
  
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