Heavy Yoga

Boulder Sight Seeing

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 21:19:39 +0000

Upstate New York, a six foot height boulder practicing heavy yoga. No competition here.

Yoga or Die (transfered from an earlier blog, Jan. 2008

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:18:32 +0000

I didn’t do my normal yoga routine this morning. I jumped on my bike in 23 degree weather and rode out errands. after the first errand my leg to hip joint started to hurt . The pain went down my leg a bit. I’ m not one to keep track and monitor every little head ache and chill that I get. I can often just think the pains away by just not worrying about them.
Not this one in my leg to hip joint I blame on my not doing yoga in the morning and the cold temperature.
Now I will do some yoga, it is Sunday, so I am at home in the warmth.
As noted in my entry earlier I do a spot of yoga in the morning. I am not really a student of yoga. More of a improviser.
If any one has yoga ideas or poses or comments please send them to me. This is Heavy Yoga, there is no right or wring way. It is not the only way, But this is non-secret. There is no hidden knowledge.
There is no long stoic path, no masters is all here for everyone.

Honey

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:08:10 +0000

Honey has so many beneficial properties that it is hard to start writing about it.
One caution, don’t give honey to kids under one year old. Honey has botulinum endospores: bacteria spores. A baby’s digestive tract cannot kill these spores and the little tick can get botulism. yuck!

So good! More for us grow ups over one year old.

Bees gather nectar in their honey stomachs, that nectar is passed to another bees that chew the honey with enzymes. The honey is spread around the hive where the water evaporates. Finished honey is sealed in honey cells until eaten by bees as needed.

Honey has been used in medicine since ancient times. Before the age of pharmacology in the 20th century honey was a major ingredient in most medicines.
A study at University of Pennsylvania found that plain honey was more effective against coughs than a honey-flavored dextromethorphan cough syrup.

Here is link,
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2007-12-03T215021Z_01_WRI378511_RTRUKOC_0_US-HONEY-EASES-NIGHTTIME-COUGH.xml

Honey spread on burns and wounds is an old practice. It has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and soothing effects.
On a wound honey produces hydrogen peroxide, which is thought to contribute to its antibacterial effects.

Bert’s Bees Wax uses honey skin creams.

I have my own skin perpetration that uses honey. The honey from the farmer’s market is the best. Uncooked and unfiltered has the most beneficial properties.

Here is a skin lotion I use every day on my face:
2 teaspoons sweet uncooked almond oil
One teaspoon food grade rose water, from the Indian spice store.
And two large drops of honey.
That’s it.
Don’t worry too much about the proportions. But too much honey makes the preparation sticky on one’s skin. Ok it is still honey.
If you have any left over you can drink it.

Not Heavy Gravity

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:01:32 +0000

Gravity gives us a reason to have equilibrium, to balance ourselves within gravity’s suction.

The body organs themselves function fine without gravity. They mostly use squeezing and sucking actions to move material around the body.

According to this piece from NASA
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4026/noord28.html
One of the physiological effects of weightlessness is that one has a feeling of falling.

The course of the psychological impressions apparently would more or less be the following: in the beginning at least during a rapid, abrupt occurrence of the absence of gravity anxiety; the brain and senses are functioning extremely intensively, all thoughts are strongly factual and are quickly comprehended with a penetrating logic; time appears to move more slowly; and a unique insensitivity to pains and feelings of displeasure appear. Later, these phenomena subside, and only a certain feeling of elevated vitality and physical fitness remain, perhaps similar to that experienced after taking a stimulant; until finally after a longer period of adaptation, the psychological state possibly becomes entirely normal.

Water has some unusual observable behavior in a micro gravity environment, like outer space. If one tries to put water into a bathtub it would float out of the bath tube and stick to the walls.
The surface tension of the water is a stronger force with out the influence of gravity. If the walls of the room were absorbent the water would stick to and be absorbed by the wall until they were saturated. The rest of the water would float around behaving like soap bubbles in the air, joining together in to larger and large ‘bubbles’.

If water were in a large mayonnaise jar it would stick to the inside of the jar because of surface tension. One could not pore water out of the jar. One could move the jar forward and stop having the water continue in that direction and coming out of the jar.

Creating a blood pressure gradient,

When one is standing there is a blood pressure gradient in the body. Blood pools in the feet and thins out in the head. In the legs and feet blood pressure is about 200 mmHg (millimeters of mercury). In the brain, though, it’s only 60 to 80 mmHg. When a person is in micro gravity environment, like out space, there is equal blood pressure in the lower and upper body. So the body senses there is too much blood, decreases the amount of over all blood in the body. When the person returns to a gravity environment the body senses that there is too much blood volume so it decreases the amount of over all blood.

Bone loss in a micro gravity space environment is more difficult to recover from.
An astronaut can lose up to 40% of her bone mass.
One piece of exercise equipment used in space is a like a vacuum cleaner tube, about 3 feet round and comes up to the waist of an astronaut. The astronaut stands in the device and it sucks down on the exerciser to simulate gravity. So gravity really sucks well.
Heavy yoga is dedicated to research and poetic enthusiasm relating to gravity.