What is Work Life Balance?

By Golden Door on Jun 8, 12:01am

1. What is work/life balance?

Golden Door philosophy centres around finding a healthy balance of the mind, body and the spirit. To achieve a healthy work life balance often means acknowledging where we are currently positioned in life – how much time do we actually spend working or doing work-like things, versus the time we spend relaxing, being creative, enjoying laughs with loved ones. A healthy balance is finding your perfect combination of these two areas in your life.

2. Why is it important?

People will often talk about finding “balance” only after they have realised that there is a strong disparity between how they are spending their time and how they want to be spending it. There are some very telling signs, physically and...

The Right Footwear and Tips When Choosing Shoes

By Sam Christie on Jun 6, 12:03am

With Dry July ahead, it’s a great opportunity to start a new exercise regime to support your new health lifestyle. But if you are just getting back into running or getting into it for the first time, you need to really think about what shoes you are going to wear. 

When we are running, it’s our footwear that is making contact with the ground so our shoes play a pivotal role controlling the high impact forces that pass from the ground to the lower limbs at each step.

Sam Christie- a Sports Podiatrist from PodMED Podiatry, Double Bay- has seen potentially pathological footwear all too often. “People let their footwear get too old and compressed or women are running in fashionable casual trainers. Don’t buy on aesthetic alone or assume...

5 Cleansing Yoga Poses

By Claire Obeid on Jun 5, 11:44pm

There is a reason why we feel the need to clean our homes post-winter. There is alot of dampness, mould, dust and general waste that builds up when we are in a confined space taking shelter from the cold.

Our bodies do much the same. Junk builds up within us that needs some serious detoxing. We cleanse through three of the body's main systems. The circulatory system pumps blood throughout the body – taking oxygen to cells whilst carrying the waste away. The digestive system processes the food we eat – absorbing the nutrients we need and eliminating anything we don’t. And then we have the lymphatic system, which collects fluid from our cells and sends it to the lymph nodes to ditch any harmful bacteria.The ...

Goal Setting

By Mel Ingram on May 22, 11:59pm

Many of us set ourselves tasks and goals to achieve what we feel will make a difference to our lives. Sometimes we find it difficult to achieve these goals as the journey becomes too long, too hard or it simply gets overshadowed by other ‘higher priority’ tasks and therefore these goals are pushed to the side.

Start by asking yourself some simple questions that can help you take control of your life and achieve your goals –

· - What are you trying to achieve?

· - What are your habits and what do you want to change?

· - What have you achieved in life?

· - Do you live in the moment?

What are trying to achieve and what is your ultimate goal? Is it to live cleanly, train for a 10km fun run, sleep better, lose weight, drink...