Monthly Archives: September 2013

The Benefits of Hot Yoga For Students

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It is a well-known fact that yoga has many benefits both for one’s physical and mental health, so there are no surprises that it is the perfect activity for students.

Spending so much time cramped over a laptop both at a desk during uni time, and in bed watching TV shows at night really does take its toll on the body and I seriously cannot think of a more enjoyable way to balance this out than to go to a yoga class. The new blood flow that you gift to your body during a yoga practice, from your fingers to your toes, can either clear the body of the tension held throughout the day, or perhaps prepares the body for a new day.

Starting the day with a yoga class is also a great way to fill yourself with energy for the day to come, so drop that Red Bull and hit the studio instead.

In terms of benefits for your physical being, yoga, particularly a dynamic Vinyasa flow class, is a fantastic way to build upper body strength and also to tone the muscles. Forget squats; try a powerful chair pose instead!  Yoga also has benefits for the cardiovascular system, as during a class you tap into your breathing and learn to control it so that it flows with your movement. Summer is coming and I know that a lot of girls go on diets or fitness fads to try and get “bikini ready”, but I can honestly tell you that by heading along to a couple of yoga classes a week alongside a healthy diet- which you do learn a lot about being surrounded by like-minded people, cannot be beaten. Everyone loves to share recipes for healthy treats and new exciting brands to check out for example Pressed Juices and Rawsome Organic chocolate who joined us on our Open Day.

In terms of mental benefits, yoga helps you to keep focused and set intentions. It especially helps you to block out the information you don’t need so you can focus on the task at hand.

On top of all this, and I know this sounds CRAZY, going to a hot yoga class with a hangover is actually one of the best cures I can think of. Drinking a ridiculous amount of water and then sweating out all the bad stuff makes you feel like a new person afterwards. You are sure to leave the class feeling detoxed and refreshed.

To read more about the benefits of yoga, feel free to visit the Kula Yoga Studio Blog- http://kulayoga.com.au/blog/

Kula Yoga Open Day

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It was a day to be remembered last Sunday at Kula Yoga Studio, with the 30 day challengers completing their Nourish, Nurture and Navigate challenge, it being Kula’s first birthday and heaps of new people coming in to check out the studio and give the classes a go.

We started out with an Intro to Flow class taken by the lovely Colin, in which newbies to both yoga and the studio got to experience the dynamic pace of Vinyasa flow.

From 2pm-4pm we had some beautiful girls from Pressed Juices and Rawsome organic chocolates come in to give everyone a try of their delicious products. The coconut- smoothie style juice was definitely a favourite, alongside the coffee crunch gluten and dairy free chocolate. I am sure everyone is now addicted to both!

The second round of guests then arrived for an Intro to Hot class lead by the wonderful Lauren. It’s safe to say everyone had their A-game on, enthusiasm and sweat levels were high, and everyone was keen to give all the poses a try.

There were prizes drawn at the conclusion of each of the classes, with yogis winning amazing LuluLemon yoga towels and osteo consults.

Without a doubt the Kula Open Day was a massive hit and owner Kacey should be so incredibly proud of what she managed to put together. Super impressive and no one could have asked for a more beautiful atmosphere in the studio that day.

WE LOVE KULA

Notes on IMAP

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IMAP- Internet Message Access Protocol

Designed by Mark Crispin at Stanford University in 1986.

All activity takes place in an email server and each device remotely connects to this server

Continuous intelligent communication between your devices and the IMAP server

Allows you to access email from multiple machines- laptop, smartphone, office computer etc

IMAP allows you to flag emails as “urgent” etc

Using IMAP you can create folders that will be shared across your devices

Supported by Outlook, Thunderbird, Mail

IMAP downside= it can take up plenty of space on a mail server thus causing your inbox to fill up, email browsing can sometimes be slower because the device has to download info off the mail server every time a new mail is viewed instead of just reading the file off the local device

Latest version is IMAP4- you can search through your mail messages for keywords while the messages are still on the mail server

Difference between POP (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP- in POP all your email will be downloaded to the computer and then deleted from your mail server, whereas with IMAP it remains in the server and you can access it via another IMAP mail client

IMAP advantages- messages stored on the server and are not affected if your computer fails

Watts Six Degrees Introduction

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Upon reading the Introduction to Six Degrees by Duncan Watts, I found myself thinking how much we as a contemporary society enjoy a new (or old) piece of technology that makes our lives more convenient and/or comfortable.

I have been asked to house sit for my Dad’s friends for a couple of weeks and some of the reasons I said yes include: the remote control windows and blinds, the Apple TV, the coffee machine and the amazing heating, as well as a chance at autonomy for a bit.

I can’t think of many people I know who would voluntarily say “I would love to move to a desert island and live with no technology for the rest of my life”. People might say they would like to do this for a bit but then come back to the reality that is this age of technology.

I can safely say I enjoy my comforts. Being able to turn on the TV when I am at home on a sick day seems essential. As does being able to check what’s going on in the news on my way to uni on my phone, and for these reasons I agree that power plants seem to be even more vital than roads at this point in time.

Let’s be honest in the future roads could be replaced with something high-tech who knows.. Or maybe we will all be driving flying cars.

Whatever the next major invention may be, you can guarantee there will be people lining up to be the first to try it, as we have seen with Apple products. People have a fascination with the new and the shiny.