If you love to do yoga and stand up paddleboarding, you can now do them both at once. The Fairmont Orchid, on Hawaii’s Big Island, has recently added Flo-yo (floating yoga) to the list of water fitness options for their guests. Practiced on a stand up paddleboard, Flo-yo connects the mind, body and breath...
Steller Spa and EcoMom Alliance have come together to create Kade’s Aide, which will bring preventive skin care to Afghan women and children. “Skin care for the Afghan people is a need that was brought to my attention via local Marin County residents, Chrise de Tournay-Birkhahn (of Ecomom Alliance), and her husband, CDR Kurt...
Kids and adults alike: forget the traditional processed food-cart grub and grab an organic snack or hot dog while on the go! Joan Miller’s Hot Diggity hot dog cart is back and ready for summer, serving healthy snacks and yummy Niman Ranch franks. Stop by the Strawberry Recreation Center on Fridays and Sundays from...
What’s better than getting to come into work late on a Friday? Finding a ‘personal size’ peach pie on my desk when I arrive. Flakey Crust? Check! All Natural? Check! Fresh Fruit? Check! Mouth-watering? Check! And best of all…gluten free! A pie that I can eat? And it looks normal? This has to be...
Got one of those coveted “healthy-but-still-tastes-good” recipes tucked away somewhere? Well, now’s the time to pull it out- Destination Hotels and Resorts is teamed up with the Resort at Squaw Creek to celebrate National Nutrition Month with a Kids Healthy Recipe Contest. Just click here and submit your favorite healthy recipe- it can be...
If you’ve taken a yoga class in the past year, perhaps you’ve pranayma’ed or bhujangasan’ed to one of Nicholas Giacomini (aka MC Yogi)’s yoga-inspired hip hop CDs. His music videos have attracted over a million views and his debut CD Elephant Power has been in the top 20 world music albums on iTunes for...
It’s no secret that we love anything sweet in the Marin Magazine office. Recently, we got to sample Coracao Confection’s chocolate, which I’m pretty sure was devoured in record time. The raspberry truffles, kaffir lime caramel cups and cinnamon flavored chocolates were tasty but it also helped that none of us felt guilty going...
Is your skin feeling a little tortured from all the sunburns at Stinson beach this summer? Need to refresh it after windy days around the Headlands? Me, too. I got to test out Origins newest skin care moisturizer, VitaZing, which is full of SPF 15. The energy boosting formula has Mangosteen, a power-packed tropical...
There are 55 percent of families living in Monterey County living in poverty with only a female head of the household struggling to support themselves. Onix is a mother just like this who has worked as a housekeeper for nine years in Carmel, CA. When she found out she had a mass of tumors...
When I was a kid there was nothing better than heading out to summer camp, sleeping bag and lanyard supplies in hand, to get a little R&R from the tough restrictions of life as a 3rd grader. Just because I’ve exceeded most camp age limits doesn’t mean I don’t want to take a break...
