PULSE.Byline: Nicole Sunkes HOLISTIC MARTHA: Just when you thought Martha Stewart had put her hand in every possible lifestyle pot, she turns up with a new magazine. Body + Soul, from the publishers of Martha Stewart Living Martha Stewart Living is a magazine and a television show featuring entertaining and home decorating guru Martha Stewart. Both the magazine and the television program focus on the domestic arts. , is the granola-crunching, hippie sibling to the original lifestyle magazine, with stories about medicinal teas and Qigong Qigong Definition Qigong (pronounced "chee-gung," also spelled chi kung) is translated from the Chinese to mean "energy cultivation" or "working with the life energy. workouts. The cover price is $4.99 and is available at newsstands now. RAISING THE BARRE: If you're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a more elegant workout than a treadmill or spinning class, ``Ballet-Fit Workout'' (Ulysses Press; $16.95), by dancers Megan Connelly, Paula Baird-Colt and David McAllister, will show you the way. The workout is based on four movement principles: alignment, dynamic stability, rebalancing Rebalancing The process of realigning the weightings of one's portfolio of assets. Notes: For example, if your portfolio's proportion of stock has grown too large for your intended assets weightings and risk tolerance, you might rebalance by selling some stock and putting and awareness. There are lots of black-and-white photos to accompany each position, and the instructions for each move are detailed. BALLET AND MORE: ``The BalleCore Workout'' (Ballantine Books; $17.95), by Pilates instructor and Boston Ballet faculty member Molly Weeks, integrates Pilates, hatha yoga and ballet into an exercise routine. BalleCore was developed by Weeks to reduce backaches and stress, sculpt sculpt v. sculpt·ed, sculpt·ing, sculpts v.tr. 1. To sculpture (an object). 2. To shape, mold, or fashion especially with artistry or precision: your arms, legs and core, and to improve balance, posture and muscle control. You will need some equipment, including a yoga mat, small pillow or towel, exercise band, a chair - and preferably a mirrored room. BalleCore is an interesting workout, but perhaps too complicated to do without an instructor. UPDATED CLASSIC: ``Our Bodies, Ourselves: 35th Anniversary Edition'' (Touchstone; $24.95), by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, belongs on every woman's bookshelf. Sections on body image, nutrition, medical issues, domestic violence and abuse are addressed from a woman's perspective. Personal accounts from women who have battled cancer and made it through menopause help humanize hu·man·ize tr.v. hu·man·ized, hu·man·iz·ing, hu·man·iz·es 1. To portray or endow with human characteristics or attributes; make human: humanized the puppets with great skill. 2. the issues. MS FUNDRAISER: Grammy Award-winning artists Earth, Wind & Fire and Natalie Cole will perform this Friday at the 12th Annual Race to Erase MS at the Westin Century Plaza Hotel The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel forming a sweeping crescent design fronting the spectacular fountains on Avenue of the Stars adjacent to the twin Century Plaza Towers. and Spa. Co-chaired by Nancy Davis and Tommy Hilfiger, the celebrity-studded event has helped raise millions toward finding a cure for multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. Last year's event alone raised $2.5 million dollars. The money is used to support the Nancy Davis Center Without Walls program, a collaboration of seven leading research centers that includes the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . - Sherry Joe Crosby CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1) no caption (body + soul magazine) (2) no caption (book: ``Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for A New Era'') (3) EARTH, WIND AND FIRE (4) no caption (book: ``The BalleCore Workout'') (5) no caption (book: ``Ballet-Fit Workout'') |
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