The Primal Connection

By engaging your arches and rocking your bodyweight back onto your heels, you should feel as though you have a strong, balanced base.

When we fail to obtain adequate sleep, we decrease our ability to process even moderate levels of oxidative stress. The impact leads to faster aging and measurable neurological decline.

and keeps us from giving our focus and energy to what can genuinely serve our health and fulfillment.

This is what owning your life, owning your problems, and owning the outcome looked like ten thousand years ago.

Yet, there’s science to support the call to decelerate. Long, slow, low-level aerobic workouts, for example, are correlated with everything from increased longevity to reduced risk of metabolic syndrome, breast cancer, and cardiovascular disease.12

We all, I believe, have that craving for transcendence in our lives. There are days when we feel the weight of our self-consciousness as a burden. As I’ve mentioned before, we’re a curious, high-maintenance species, yet still a fascinating lot. A healthy life with all the wholesome trimmings— nourishing food, vigorous exercise, adequate sleep— inde

Some have found the answer in a growing international movement known as Slow Living, an off shoot of the Slow Food movement that began in Italy during the 1980s with a call to return to the basics and to support the personal and social pleasures of eating.