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An encouragement for everyone who will break their diet today

Sarah Halsey November 21, 2018

The holidays are synonymous with broken diets and weight gain for many people, especially college students.This is because many college students are far from home and have not had a homecooked meal in...

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Yoga is the answer to your finals week stress

Belle Kendrick April 23, 2018

Need both a mental and physical break from school to destress before finals week? If so, yoga is the exercise for you. With benefits to both your mental and physical health, yoga will be the perfect remedy...

Source on High is a wellness Co-op and Movement located on High street near Woodland Park. The co-op is Kentuckys first Float Center sporting two float tanks which house 1200 pounds of epsom salt in 93.5 degree water. Float facilitator, Sarajane Doty explains that tank allows the user to experience zero-gravity as a source of relaxation and healing. Photo by Arden Barnes | Staff

Healing with zero-gravity? Lexington’s only float tanks offer an experience many can’t match

Rick Childress December 18, 2017

Can you gain something from feeling nothing? Spending an hour in this pod could answer that question."It's amazing what the brain can do on its own when it has kind of no stimulus," said Corinne LaReau,...

Formerly Commonwealth Stadium, Kroger Field is the home to the University of Kentucky football team. Taken Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017 on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Kentucky. Kaitlyn Gumm | Staff 

Yoga takes over Kroger field

Lindsey Brady October 13, 2017

Kroger Field, formerly known as Commonwealth Stadium, is home to many fun activities. Almost every Saturday in the fall, you can find wildcat fans cheering on the football team to victory, The Paddock...

The Moonshiners Ball has finalized its 2017 lineup, with Kentuckians Ben Sollee and Justin Wells leading the pack of new additions.

Ben Sollee, Justin Wells and more added to Moonshiner’s Ball

Matt Wickstrom March 7, 2017

Hosted by the Blind Corn Liquor Pickers, the 2017 Moonshiner’s Ball has rounded out its lineup for its fourth iteration with Ben Sollee, Justin Wells, Quiet Hollers, May Erlewine, Driftwood Gypsy, HuDost,...

Appreciate your body and soul this Thanksgiving

Olivia Jones November 20, 2016

The much-anticipated sigh and “ahhhhh” of Thanksgiving break is about to be among us. No genie required, we are granted a pause from the goings-on of college life and all things UK; unless you’re...

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Relieve post-election emotional tension

Olivia Jones November 13, 2016

A giant eggshell has covered the streets and sidewalks as tension is rising among people of all ages, race and genders after the election results Wednesday. Professors don’t know whether to make the...

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Namasté, more than just a pun

Olivia Jones October 30, 2016

Namasté is becoming a part of everyday language, the highlight of puns, and tossed around like baseballs at a little league pitching practice. People combine the word with the iconic peace sign hand gesture...

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Yoga, the cure for sleepless nights

Olivia Jones October 16, 2016

Let’s face it, college is one of the busiest times of our lives. We try to balance school work with relationships, family, jobs, housework, pets and other things that just make us decent human beings,...

​A look down UKs newly renovated Commonweath Stadium field on July 22, 2015. Photo by Marcus Dorsey

Nama-stadium yoga

Olivia Jones September 28, 2016

Imagine Commonwealth Stadium filled with hundreds of warrior poses, different shades of yoga pants, post-practice smiles and raised endorphins. Thursday at 7:30 p.m. the UK Campus Recreation and Wellness...

Boost your immune system with yoga

Olivia Jones September 23, 2016

The seasons are changing, we are in closer proximity to one another, stress levels are high, and let’s face it, we are probably drinking more.What does all of this mean? Lower immune systems.Aside from...

Sterling Hot Yoga Works provides a variety of classes from morning till evening. The studio is near Fayette Mall. Photo by Dimitri Silva

Stretch out the cold at Sterling Hot Yoga Works

Dimitri Silva February 4, 2016

Looking for ways to beat the winter cold? Lexington is home to a local yoga studio that redefines the way to finding one’s Zen.Since 2007, Sterling Hot Yoga Works has been heating up Lexingtonians physically...

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