When Debbie Popiel first tried yoga, she didn’t have the greatest experience. “There was weird music playing, nobody explained anything to me, and I didn’t get it. I was like, ‘I can’t do this,’” she says. “Then years later, when I was pregnant with my daughter, I took a class and it was a very…
Joey DeLaRosa is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, who has begun teaching a Mussar Yoga Zoom series with the Tucson Jewish Community Center on April 19 for four weeks on Mondays at 5:45 pm. This yoga is great for beginners and athletes – no experience is necessary. Mussar Yoga is a blending…
By Bonnie Groessl Self-care is an important part of staying physically and mentally healthy. When do you take care of yourself? Very often, we put the needs of our work, families and other people ahead of our own. In order to be able to do all the things you do; you must take care of yourself first. In…
Photo: The Inspire device is activated by a handheld remote to deliver mild stimulation to key airway muscles. A new treatment option for obstructive sleep apnea for patients who cannot use Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy is available at Abrazo Arrowhead Campus. The Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation (UAS) therapy is an implantable system includes…
JScreen, a national nonprofit public health initiative dedicated to preventing genetic diseases, announced plans for the annual Jewish Genetic Screening Awareness Week (JGSAW), taking place February 1-5, 2021. Started last year and with organizational partners across the country, JGSAW will focus on powerful events, timely information and resources to help raise awareness about the…
Dr. Hillel Z. Baldwin, a Board Certified Neurological surgeon since 1996, practices at the Carondelet Neurological Institute (CNI) of St. Joseph’s Hospital. He has been a practicing surgeon partner at Western Neuro in Tucson since 1992. During his career, Dr. Baldwin has served as Chief of Neurosurgery at Tucson Medical Center, Northwest Medical Center and…
A green Mediterranean (MED) diet reduces intrahepatic fat more than other healthy diets and cuts non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in half, according to a long-term clinical intervention trial led by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers and a team of international colleagues. The findings were published in Gut, a leading international journal focused on…
Photo: RetiSpec COO Roy Kirshon, left, and CEO Eliav Shaked. (Robert Sarner/ Times of Israel) By Robert Sarner Israeli expatriate biomedical engineers Eliav Shaked and Roy Kirshon may be far from old age but one of its dreaded curses – Alzheimer’s disease (AD) – figures prominently in their lives. As business partners in an artificial…
Martin Pear JCC on the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus (“The J”) announces the workshop Love Yourself First (Nov. 1 from 9:30 am to noon), a way to help women get out of their 2020 negative slump and learn how to set new positive intentions about how they feel, think and speak to themselves and…
Photo: Karen Supman in 2018. Karen Supman was diagnosed with plasmacytoma with amyloid, abnormal plasma cell growth that is cancerous, in 2006. You can read the account of when she received her diagnosis here: Hearing I Had Cancer. The following piece is a continuation of her healing journey. By Karen Supman After the chemo and…
