Amy Andersen
Amy Andersen is a Masters prepared certified Family and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (MSN,ARNP,FNP-C,PNP). She has practiced for close to 30 years in the hospital as well as in esthetic medicine, addiction, retail medicine, family practice, pediatrics, and as a college teacher. Her health care experience is from the current US system and a social medicine system in Europe. She has additional TEFL and Permanent Makeup certifications.
She has published in and been a reviewer for refereed professional journals and has a chapter in a book on Addiction and Substance Abuse. Writing since she learned how to form the letters, Amy's first story won first place in Junior Scholastic Magazine. She has written for travel sites and blogs, a Health news magazine, product reviews, and kept a blog on a feral cat who was stolen and has gotten in with the wrong crowd.
Her background helps her as FW explore the inter-relationship of Mind and Body and Fitness as a modern day definition of health. Medicine and the practices of yoga, Pilates, Reiki, Feldenkrais, etc. combine to create a multidimensional concept of fitness and well-being. Currently an Ashtanga practitioner, she has no real preference but understands we all begin where we are and end where we should be.
Latest Articles
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Uses for Old Yoga Mats; How to Recycle a Yoga Mat
Don't throw away that old yoga mat. There are many useful ways to recycle the sticky mat.
Dec 2, 2011
- Amy Andersen
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A Good Yoga Class Follows the Stages of Life
Yoga class begins lying on the back breathing, centering and rocking in happy baby, progressing to standing, then returning to corpse pose and letting go.
Nov 8, 2011
- Amy Andersen
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How Long a Breath, a Stretch, Rep, or Pause in Exercise or Muscle
How long does it take to make an exercise comfortable and own it? How many repetitions to build a muscle? How long to create or undo a habit?
Sep 27, 2011
- Amy Andersen
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Yoga Inversions for Longevity, Headstands for Health?
Ancient yogis believed by actively inverting or reversing the flow of blood or gravity, a longer life and enhanced youthfulness was possible.
Aug 30, 2011
- Amy Andersen
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Tai Chi and Heart Health: Reduce Cardiac Risks and Cholesterol
Practicing Tai Chi has been scientifically shown to positively affect the health of the heart and the cardiovascular system.
Jul 26, 2011
- Amy Andersen
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Find Florida Beach Yoga for an Outdoor Yoga Practice
Warm fresh seabreeze, open space, the sound of water and seagulls and the white sand make outside yoga on the beach in sunny Florida an ideal practice.
Jun 27, 2011
- Amy Andersen
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A Yoga View of Seniors, Elderly, Disabled, or the Powerless
The Yoga mind denies the belief weak, ill, obese, or elderly bodies peak and now decline. Yoga empowers by removing standards of subjective perfection.
May 26, 2011
- Amy Andersen
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Why do Water Yoga or Water Pilates in the Pool?
Yoga practiced in the water offers unique advantages other environments don't. Water assists to strengthen muscles, relieve joints, and relax the mind.
Apr 23, 2011
- Amy Andersen
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Preparing for the 108 Sun Salutations and Yoga Celebrations
Traditionally, yoga celebrates the solstice and changing seasons with 108 sun salutations done in a group. Read how to prepare for this unique experience.
Mar 21, 2011
- Amy Andersen
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Yoga as Dance Performance, Yoga Flow to Music
Yoga poses are not typically performance art or dance but with music, advanced poses can take on the semblance of dance whether for an audience or the self.
Mar 5, 2011
- Amy Andersen
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