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The hotel industry reported its highest occupancy week yet, Americans are booking vacations, and states are lifting restrictions on indoor dining and fitness classes. Across the country, states are lifting restrictions on indoor dining — but CDC researchers found that on-premises dining was linked to a rise in daily COVID-19 infections. * Occupancy at U.S. hotels reached 52% last week, the highest occupancy rate since lockdowns began. * Indoor fitness classes are back in Washington, D.C., but classes are limited to 10 participants.

On your exhale, float your upper body down to rest on the ground and stretch your arms out in front of you. From your forward fold, you’re going to place your hands back on the mat and under your shoulders. Corpse Pose / Savasana Hug your knees into your chest and rock slowly form side to side. Sit up straight, shoulders back, chest open, take a deep breath through your nose and exhale through your mouth.

Then take your right knee and pull it into your chest, allow your left leg to float down to the ground. Once you feel relaxed in this wind releasing pose, take your right leg across your body and rest it on the left side for a cross body twist. Once you feel complete, release your right leg, pull in your left leg and repeat the sequence. After completing your cross-body twist on both sides, bring your knees into your chest for a moment.

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and surrounding environment, through awareness. It’s about accepting where you are physically and mentally, while not judging the loud and often disruptive thoughts that swim in and out of your mind. When you bring mindfulness to what you’re experiencing via your senses, or to your state of mind via your thoughts and emotions, you’re being mindful. And there’s growing research showing that when you train your brain to be mindful, you’re actually remodeling the physical structure of your brain.