Wellness

Wellness

Fitness From The Field: Yoga On The Mountaintop

The Rural Intelligence region offers a plethora of fitness and healing modalities, but it can be hard to know which is the one that fits your needs, your body type and your schedule. Enter Paula Boyajian (right), a yoga instructor certified in Interdisciplinary Yoga and Yoga for the Special Child,

By Editor

Wellness

As Tick Infestation Grows, So Does Lyme Disease Research

Dr. Ostfeld tagging a white-footed mouse. Photo by Pam Freeman. By Tresca Weinstein Here are a few things you might not know about ticks: One, they’re not insects. They’re closer to the spider in nature, making them arachnids. Also, they don’t fly, hop, jump or fall out

By Editor

Wellness

New Marlborough's Mepal Manor Changes Identity Once Again

By Marilyn Bethany In 1906, Hildreth Kennedy Bloodgood, a banker and sportsman, built a 25-room, gabled-and-turreted stone mansion in New Marlborough, MA. Like other Berkshire “cottages" of that era, Mepal Manor was designed to lend old world gravitas to new world wealth. Here, Hildreth and his wife Julia raised

By Editor

Wellness

The Grand Treatment At The Mayflower Inn and Spa

By Don Rosendale “Ten fifty" the desk clerk says nonchalantly, announcing the tariff for a 21-hour mid-week spa package at the Mayflower Inn and Spa in Washington, CT, a five-star country-house hotel of impressive proportions and gorgeous design. By “ten fifty," he means one thousand and fifty bucks

By Editor

Wellness

Apothecary Friendly: The (Malin + Goetz) Line of Beauty

By Dale Stewart It's hard not to be a tad smitten by Matthew Malin (left) and Andrew Goetz (right), the marvels behind the eponymous beauty line (Malin + Goetz). They are both smart, athletic, articulate, and youthful-looking, a well-matched pair who’ve been together nearly twenty years, and shared

By Editor

Wellness

Health & Wellness: Apothecary Brews Up Good Medicine in Germantown

Dana and Michael Eudy have traveled  a long way to find home. After hopping first from Texas (where they were born and raised and eventually met in Dallas) and then to Brooklyn, the couple, with their two young children in tow, has thrown down potent roots in Germantown, NY, to

By Editor

Wellness

Hikes With A Purpose: Chasing Waterfalls (Picnics and Wildflowers)

Destinations that will motivate even the most huffing and puffing among us. Waterfalls Bash Bish FallsThe low-key, 0.4 mile hike into Bash Bish Falls is a lesson in the pleasures of anticipation. The tantalizing roar of the falls grows louder as you amble along the river, building to the

By Editor

Wellness

Have the Oil, Hold the Olay

By Sarah ToddBased on the number of articles singing the praises of edible oils these days, you might think the liquid fat industry has an excellent new publicist. Olive oil wards off heart attacks and strokes! Avocado oil lowers blood pressure in a single bound!  But many oils really do

By Editor

Wellness

It Takes Two To Tango

Dance was always Jackie Wong’s destiny. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, named her after his beloved dance teacher, and she grew up devouring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies like ice cream. In the 1980s, she worked during the day as the manager of a bread and cheese shop

By Editor

Wellness

Spring Cleansing

When I spotted a bluebird attempting to get a good look at itself in a parked Toyota’s rearview mirror last week, I knew that spring was finally here. It's a time of year when, much like bluebirds, people feel inspired to make sure everything looks sharp. We

By Editor

Wellness

Heavenly Hell on Wheels: The Hudson Valley Horrors

Woe to the person who attends a Hudson Valley Horrors bout thinking that women's roller derby is just a bunch of babes in skates pushing each other around. Over the course of roller derby’s nearly one hundred-year history, it’s gained a reputation for blending campy spectacle

By Editor

Wellness

In Amenia, A Community Grows by Leaps and Bounds

To start a dance revolution, the first thing to do is ditch the choreographer. That’s what the wildly creative Pilobolus Dance Theater did when it was founded by a ragtag group of Dartmouth students and their dance teacher in 1971. Ever since, the watchword of the troupe has been

By Editor