April 2021

Happy April! Welcome back to Optimal Wellness, a health and wellness platform dedicated to helping people meet their goals while living a healthy and balanced life. Once a month you will receive free content, resources, tips, tricks, recipes, research, quotes, and more.

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Basic Sunrise Flow

Every month you will receive a free video! This month features a Basic Sunrise Flow filmed in Costa Rica with Allison.

This Month’s Resources

What is Sauna Bathing?
  • Bathing oneself in heat for the purposes of purification, cleansing, and healing is an ancient practice, dating back thousands of years and observed across many cultures.
  • How can saunas improve your health?
    • Reduces inflammation, promotes growth hormone release through heat shock proteins, detoxification, improves physical fitness and athletic performance, decrease in mortality, improving cognitive and mental health, preventing cardiovascular, congestive heart failure, heart disease, and hypertension.
  • Learn more here from Dr. Rhonda Patrick and listen to a clip of her as a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience here.
The Four Agreements
  1. Be Impeccable With Your Word.
  2. Don’t Take Anything Personally.
  3. Don’t Make Assumptions.
  4. Always Do Your Best.“Don Miguel Ruiz’s book is a roadmap to enlightenment and freedom. —Deepak Chopra, Author, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

Fluffy Pancakes

The softest and fluffiest Vegan Fluffy Pancakes made with a handful of simple ingredients! Add chocolate chips, chopped bananas, a handful of nuts or blueberries to make these Homemade Vegan Pancakes extra special.