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Find the best places to help you achieve your resoluton with mindfulness, excercise, and healthy eating BY GREGOIRE WINSTON AND ALEXA OROZCO, STAFF WRITERS
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S 2020 BEGINS, MANY WANT to start the year off with a clean slate. Many of the goals that people seek to achieve include practicing mindfulness, excercising and sticking to a healthy and satisfying diet. Following this map will ensure that all have a year filled with new and enriching
experiences that will improve one’s lifestyle. These locales will help current habits evolve into healthier practices. highlights has explored three locations, a waterfront outdoor gym, a yoga studio inside a hotel and a trendy health-food cafe, that will promote positive resolution practices all year
round. These places will help one be incorporate effective forms of exercise, relaxing yoga sessions and healthy eating all without breaking the budget. Soon, one will be looking foward to a year filled with completed New Year’s resolutions.
START OF 2020 POSITIVE POSES:
A patron at the Mayfair Hotel’s Yoga program poses in downward dog.
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IDDEN BEHIND PEACOCK PARK is the Mayfair Hotel. Classy, exclusive and peaceful, this complex in the heart of Coconut Grove, Mayfair represents the ideal escape from Miami’s sometimes chaotic environment. Imagined and later developed by the architect Kenneth Treister, Mayfair’s artistic flair is everywhere. Upon entering the hotel, the hand-carved mahogany principal doorway welcomes its clients to this creative yet elegant institution. Rich fountains, elaborate stairways and an abundantly covered palm tree terrace on
Mindfulness the rooftop ornaments this exceptional place. Located at 3000 Florida Ave. in Coconut Grove, the hotel offers a new wave of complexes for all Miami citizens to savour. “The overall ambiance is very nice and friendly, I get a homey feeling when I enter. The staff is on point, and I feel fortunate to be able to practice yoga at this exceptional place,’’ senior Ayanna Smith said. On Saturdays from 8-9 a.m, completley free yoga classes are held on the roof. Situated next to the majestic pool, free and open to all, this weekly class invites stressed Miami locals to unwind while overlooking Biscayne Bay. Enjoying a breath of fresh air is the ideal remedy after a hectic Miami workweek, and yoga at the Mayfair offers a chance to feel reinvigorated and energized. Managing everyday stress, which often takes a considerable toll on the human body, can be significantly reduced with a couple of yoga sessions. “The Mayfair yoga sessions are a great way to relax your body, and have a good time with your friends while having an amazing view in front of you,” Sophomore Noa Neddam said.
“It is also a great way to relieve stress and clear your mind after a long week of work,” Neddam said. Some of the most prevalent effects of practicing yoga include improved flexibility, open-mindedness, maintaining a balanced metabolism, protection from athletic injury and increase in muscle strength, among many others. Yoga, in short, aids in the development and benefit of the entire human body, in comparison to other physical activities that work on specific body parts. Insomnia, sleeping disturbances and headaches disappear thanks to the incense aromas in the air, as well as the plethora of intricate yoga poses. A major part of yoga is the practice of becoming more in-tune with your mind. Often times at the end of a session the instructor will have a short period of meditation. This mindfullness practice has been proven to improve focus and tranquility. The Mayfair Yoga sessions, while implement many poses, techniques and attributes that provide an excellent opportunity for those seeking to complete their resolutions.
