• Detox Fitness Plan

  Spring cleaning benefits more than just the garage. Your body also stands to gain from this yearly ritual -- and working out is the best place to start. "Exercise increases blood flow and works your muscles," says Mark ...

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  Your Best Shape Workout: Muscular-Types

  Mesomorph: Muscular (Driven and Athletic)"Mesomorphs bring an intensity to everything they do," says Barrett. "Exercise is like therapy for them. It calms them down and helps their moods stay on an even ...

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  Body Shape Workout: Slender-Types

  Ecotomorphs: Slender (Energetic and Quick)"Ectomorphs are live wires," says Kries. "Everything about them moves fast. They think quickly, act quickly, digest quickly, and can accomplish a lot in a short amount of ...

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  Heart-Smart Workout: Energize Your Heart

  Take a few minutes to synchronize your breath with your beat to reduce stress instantly. Susanna Bair, cofounder of the Institute for Applied Meditation in Tucson, Arizona, and coauthor of "Energize Your ...

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  Morning and Evening Yoga

  This strengthens the shoulders, triceps, back, and core, building stamina and boosting confidence and endurance. Start on your hands and knees with your hands under your shoulders and your knees under your hips, then tuck your toes under and ...

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  Tone Head to Toe

  The hip joints house a lot of physical and emotional tension -- especially for women. The reason Chalk it up to a combination of a sedentary lifestyle and nonstop stress. Practice these three hip stretches and strengtheners to increase flexibility ...

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  9 Ways to Be Happier

  Research has revealed a surprising fact about what we get in return when we give. In what can only be considered a blissful karmic payoff, it's more often the giver -- not the receiver -- who reaps the biggest payback.. 1. Learn to give.. Stress ...

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  Yoga and Breast Cancer

  Yoga may help ease pain and replenish energy in women coping with breast cancer, suggests a small study from Duke University Medical Center.For two months, 13 women with cancer that had spread beyond the breast practiced ...

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• Vital Energy Centers

  First Chakra: RootLower pelvis.Grounding; connects you to the earth and to reality.Second Chakra: SacralLower abdomen.Sexual energy center; source of creativity and imagination.Third Chakra: Solar PlexusBetween heart and navel, ...

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• B+S Yoga DVDs Recommendations

  . When there's not enough time for class and not enough motivation to practice on your own, these DVDs offer the next best thing.For the adventurous yogi, Fluid Power (Acacia, 2007), a two-disc set from Shiva Rea, gives ...

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