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Gisele Bündchen’s Yoga Skills Are Amazing In Her Latest IG Pic – Women’s Health

Whether you are mowing the lawn, digging in the soil or raking leaves, yard work is an excellent way to add exercise into your weekly routine.

Besides being good for you physically, gardening can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent diabetes, heart disease, depression and osteoporosis when done regularly.

Gisele Bündchen, 42, recently posted a killer photo on Instagram doing some yoga.
The Brazilian model also hit her followers with some wellness inspiration in her caption.
She’s done yoga for many years—but also enjoys Pilates, swimming, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Gisele Bündchen recently shared some wise words of wellness on her Instagram, along with a photo that shows off her yoga practice. The Brazilian model looked serene and super strong in a trikonasana, or triangle pose.

The 42-year-old model was doing her workout on the beach, in grey leggings and a matching tank top. In addition to her inspiring pose (doesn’t it just make you want to bust out your yoga mat?), she also gave her followers some food for thought.

“Being healthy is more than a clean diet and exercise. It’s about our attitudes, emotions, beliefs, thoughts and actions,” she wrote in her caption. “When life gets challenging always remember that the sun rises everyday bringing a new opportunity for us to try again and do better. It can get intense out there and we can get easily distracted by the noise. Awareness is key. What energy you are nurturing?”

She finished the post off with: “Remember, we are the co-creators of our own reality, what we believe we create!” Her followers sent her lots of love for the virtual pep talk in the comments.

yourself doing yoga, but I can’t expect anything less from Gisele. She’s kind of a yoga queen. The model has been doing the practice for years, and lauds it for the body and mind benefits.

“[Yoga is] so serene that I can be in a state of meditation while I practice … Whether it involves music or mantras or breath work or meditation, [yoga is] a powerful beautiful spiritual practice. Yoga gave me back my life,” Gisele wrote in her book Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life in 2018, via Marie Claire Australia.

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She’s not wrong. Yoga is clinically proven to reduce and build resilience to stress, WH previously reported. It also regulates your nervous system and reduces anxiety. Not to mention its benefits on your body: most yoga is a full-body workout and a quality practice regulates your breathing, too.

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In addition to providing a great reminder of one the best workouts, Gisele has been blessing her followers with some killer ab moments lately. She must really be working her core with those navasanas, or boat poses. It isn’t all because of yoga, though. The Brazilian model also likes Pilates, swimming, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, according to British Vogue. She also gets up at 5 a.m. every day to workout. Wow!

As for her diet, Gisele has said she eats a lot of fruits and vegetables, with red meat in moderation, according to Vogue France. Her trainer also told British Vogue that she eats a lot, and trains Gisele and her husband, Tom Brady, together. Totally adorable.

BRB, booking a yoga class. Thanks for the inspo, Gisele!

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Olivia Evans (she/her) is an editorial assistant at Women’s Health. Her work has previously appeared in The Cut and Teen Vogue. She loves covering topics where culture and wellness intersect. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, running, and watching rom-coms.

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18 Raised Garden Bed Ideas at All Price Points – Country Living

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‘To garden is to grow flowers, fruits or vegetables on land associated with a home. It is a bounded space usually containing cultivated plants’

A garden combines a wide range of elements to create a unique and personal design. It’s the sum of hard and soft landscape elements.

If you’re looking to put a small garden into your yard or near your house to grow veggies and fruits or different types of flowers,, it’s worth considering a raised bed.

Raised garden beds and planters can solve a number problems. They make marking the space between your lawn and garden very simple, and make plowing up the soil unnecessary. You can build them high off the ground to save your knees or back.

They improve drainage, too. If your soil is sandy or mostly heavy clay, raised beds, which are filled with exactly the soil mixture you want, make planting a breeze. Raised beds also warm up faster than garden beds, which is ideal if you live in a cold climate and want to maximize your number of growing days per year. And bonus: They are easy to fence in, keeping your precious plants away from hungry garden visitor such as rabbits!

There are tons of raised bed garden kits you can purchase and assemble yourself. But many designs can be DIY’ed for less using up-cycled or repurposed materials or even with basic lumber from the hardware store. And a DIY design lets you make it as simple or complex as you like, ready to fit in better in your particular yard.

If you don’t have room for traditional raised beds in your yard, there are many variations of the idea that work for compact spaces such as a petite patio, deck, or balcony. Vertical growing towers, window boxes, and wall planters also provide planting space for you to grow anything from lettuce and herbs to violas and petunias.

We’ve rounded up a few simple raised bed garden ideas that don’t require a degree in engineering to create. With some basic tools and a weekend afternoon or two, you can create these raised bed gardens for your own back yard. You can follow the tutorials or let them inspire your own designs.

Ahead, our favorite raised bed garden ideas that are pretty and practical for any garden space:

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How to select the right seeds for your garden – Iowa Public Radio

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During Victorian times, many plants were associated with human qualities such as kindness, bashfulness, and remembrance. Today, flowers still provide a wonderful way to express feelings.

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Yarrow grows well in a mixed border, mass plantings or containers. Plant it in part to full sun with a rich, organic soil and plenty of water.

Looking at colorful seed packets, a gardener can feel like a kid in a candy store. Faced with so many exciting options, it’s easy to get carried away. We’ve got some things to keep in mind so you can seed shop like a pro.

This content originally appeared in IPR’s Garden Variety newsletter, which brings together Iowa’s gardening community for expert advice and timely tips for gardeners at all levels year-round.

Plan ahead

Like going to the grocery store without a list, buying seeds without a plan can get overwhelming. It’s easy to get distracted by junk food — before you know it, you’ll have a cart full of potato chips but no cabinet space for them. It’s important to make a plan for your garden before you buy your seeds to avoid the same fate for your plant beds. Make a map of where you’re going to plant everything and a list of the exact seed you need.

A good rule of thumb: Unless you know where you’re going to put it, don’t buy it.

If you’re just starting out, stick to tried and true seeds you know will work well in your space. As you gain confidence, you may find yourself wanting to branch out and experiment with new seed varieties. This way, you can learn and grow right alongside your garden!

To seed or not to seed

Starting seeds can be a fun challenge for a gardener, but sometimes buying transplants from the garden center makes more sense.

Start from seed if there’s a certain variety you’re itching to plant, and you can’t find it as a transplant locally.

Transplants may be a good option if the plant has fine, or small, seeds like a begonia. Small seeds are much harder to germinate. Older seeds can also be hard to germinate, and it may be best to get fresh seed or buy a transplant if you want to ensure your seedlings take off.

What to plant in Iowa

A note on Zone 5: Iowa lies within USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5. Nursery and seed catalogs will often indicate what zone(s) certain plants can survive in, however this only applies to perennials, shrubs and trees, which live longer than one year. Most flowers and vegetables are annuals, which have a one-year lifespan, making zones irrelevant.

Seed Savers Exchange, just north of Decorah, is a great local resource for seeds in Iowa. If you’re not sure what to plant, their most popular — and creatively named — varieties might serve as inspiration.

Leafy Greens: Lacinato Kale, Five Color Silverbeet Swiss Chard, America Spinach
Great Gourds: Waltham Butternut Squash, Black Beauty Zucchini, Chelsea Watermelon
Roots and Fruits: Dragon Carrot, Danvers Carrot, French Breakfast Radish, Wapsipinicon Peach Tomato, German Pink Tomato — one of the Seed Savers founding varieties
Wild Card: Stevia — pick a leaf off for a sweet treat!

If you’re still averse to eating your veggies, try planting these common flower varieties instead: petunia, snapdragon, verbena, vinca, zinnia, pansy, geranium, wax begonia, impatiens, marigold and salvia.

Where to get your seeds

After you’ve narrowed down the shopping list, it’s time to purchase seeds for the upcoming growing season. Flower and vegetable seeds can be purchased at local garden centers and other retailers, and there are many online options that will mail your selected seeds to you.

Source: iowapublicradio.org

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