Are you ready to feel and look fabulous with your partner this pre-Valentine weekend?

I would like to share 3 mind, body, spirit, beauty remedies and tips suggested by Dr. Oz.  They may help you reduce stress, improve your mood; nourish and rejuvenate your skin, and keep your heart healthy.

1. One of Dr. Oz’s tips is a relaxing beauty remedies facial mask that you can use to exfoliate, rejuvenate and nourish your winter skin.

Beauty Remedies Facial Meditation with a Hot Cocoa Face Mask

Ingredients:

• 3 tbsp cocoa (contains fatty acids to keep skin nourished)
• 3 tbsp plain yogurt (locks moisture in)
• 1.5 tbsp raw honey (reduces inflammation and redness)
• 1.5 tbsp oatmeal (an exfoliant that is also good for sensitive skin)
• some water if needed

Directions:

Mix all the ingredients and apply to your face and neck for 15-20 minutes. Rinse the Hot Cocoa Facial off with water.

2. Dr Oz also believes that having happy sex can help you relax and feel sexy.

Hot Valentine Love

Sex not only reduces stress, it can also help you feel and look happier and younger.

To improve your libido for your Valentine, you might want to include some nutmeg, oysters, nuts and seeds, bananas and asparagus with your Valentine meal.

3.  Finally, Dr. Oz suggests that having a glass of hot red wine may help you prevent heart attacks

Hot Red Wine for a Healthy Heart

If you enjoy some mulled wine with your Valentine– red wine heated with cinnamon, clove, brandy and lemon zest – you can help reduce your risk of a heart attack. It’s rich with antioxidants and inhibits the narrowing of arteries. Bonus: cinnamon and clove can help lower cholesterol.

P.S. Enjoy a Valentine Bonus

Listen to Julie Gabriel, Holistic Nutritionist on Holistic Beauty Remedies.

Listen to Dr. Dunas on How to Heal Your Body and Marriage Through Lovemaking.

Breathe, smile and be happy.

© Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health and Nutrition Counselor and Coach

No matter how busy we are, we should never forget to take care of ourselves – mind, body and spirit.

One little thing you can do for yourself is to indulge yourself in a mini spa day.

This beauty remedies tip will help you relax to feel and look fabulous.

Are you ready for a homemade beauty remedy recipe that will make you feel and look fabulous?

Relax, Rejuvenate and Detox with an Essential Oils Healing Bath

By taking a relaxing healing oil bath you may be able to reduce your stress level, lower your blood pressure, heal a headache, balance your hormones, address your sleep needs to sleep better, achieve a natural weight loss, detox cleanse, and feel sexy.

According to Ayurveda, the perfect bath should stimulate all the five senses, provide relaxation and a feeling of emotional fullness. After your full body massage, you should let your skin absorb the oil for at least 15 minutes before you get into the tub. During this time, you assemble everything you will need for a full sensory experience.

Taste: It’s important to remain hydrated while you are cleansing and detoxifying your body. For a soothing drink, try herbal teas. Nettle Tea is specially designed to calm the mind. For an energizing beverage, you can add a few teaspoons of Cocoa. Ayurveda does not recommend drinking coffee and alcohol because they stimulate the body instead of soothing it.

Sight: For a peaceful atmosphere, light a few candles and turn off the lights. Make sure you place the candles in a secure place, where you can’t knock them off while bathing.

Sound: To help you focus on your spa experience, turn off your phone and mute the answering machine. Put on your favorite soothing, low-volume music. You can also listen to a CD with pacifying melodies of nature, which will help revitalize your body, mind and spirit. If you have a portable CD player, you can place it in the bathroom but away from the bath tub for safety reasons.

Smell: Now you are ready to fill your tub with warm water. Do not bathe in hot water because it dries your skin and depletes your energy. Make sure to use a filter if the tap water is heavily chlorinated. Soften and scent your bathwater with essential oils, which come in different aromatherapy combinations such as relaxing, rejuvenating or energizing. You can also try the Epsom salts to relax your muscles.  Natural aromas will uplift your spirit. If you are planning to soak for a while, you can use bath pillows to cushion your head and neck.

Touch: Use natural sponges or scrubs such as loofah, to soften rough elbows and knees, and pumice stone to scrub calluses on your feet. Instead of petroleum-based soaps, use vegetable soaps to cleanse your skin. (adopted form Maharishi Ayurveda -www.mapi.com)

Click to listen to our discussion with Mary- Beth Janssen, Health and Beauty Expert on Pleasure Healing and Self Nurturing Tips for Busy Women.

P.S. You can also take a lavender bath with lavender essential oils, aromatherapy lavender, a tea bath, or healing oils as a beauty remedies stress reducer to detox cleanse and to feel sexy.

Breathe, smile and be happy.

© Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health and Nutrition Counselor and Coach

Let us take a break for taking care of ourselves. Are you ready for  some”ME” time with a rainbow swirl meditation to relax, refocus, feel sexy, confident and sensual?

This imagery meditation with Diva Mama Tonya will help you get more energy as well as get into better mood and balance your body and all your seven chakras. If you decide to practice this imagery meditation in the evening, it might be your sleep remedy and stress relief tool.

Imagery Meditation as a Sleep Remedy and Energy Booster

Click to listen to our discussion with Tonya K. Freeman, The Wide Awake Feminine Liberator on Destiny Dance, Shift to Bliss, and Self -Love for Your State of Being.

Breathe, smile and be happy.

© Irina Wardas HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition and Relationship Coach

How is your metabolism these days? If you think you have gained some weight already, it may mean that you don’t have enough fiber rich foods to detox your body and get rid of constipation; or you maybe stopped practicing my favorite magic yoga move to get rid of belly fat.

If you need a boost to feel sexy and confident, try this fantastic thigh and butt reducing exercise.

Try to do this buttocks reducing exercise regularly for better results.

• The simple exercise is the squat.
• Keep in mind that the doing squats correctly is very important, so read and then carefully follow these directions:
• Stand with your feet a little more than shoulder width apart.
• Put your body into a position where your bottom is pushed back as if you were sitting in a chair.
• Hold your chest up.
• Slowly and gently lower your body as though you are “sitting” in a chair until your thighs are parallel with the ground.
• With your weight on your heels, slowly lift yourself until you’re back where you started.
• Two pointers to keep in mind:
• Your knees should not extend over your toes.
• Keep your torso tight and straight.
• Do the squat one or two times per week to start, and shoot for one or two sets of six to eight repetitions.
• Increase activity as your body strengthens or do more reps more often if you’re already in shape. (adopted from www.chetday.com)

Breathe, smile and be happy.

© Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition Coach and Counselor

Let us celebrate National Love Your Body Day with this self-love exercise you can do every day.  We can also call it self love affirmations or even self love meditation.

If you don’t like your body image, have low self esteem or no confidence,you may want to love your body by trying some self-love exercises.

“I don’t like myself, I’m crazy about myself”– Mae West

I hope you have been doing my Self Love Exercise to Feel Sexy and Confident for a while, so now we are going to try this advanced self love meditation from Healthy Body Cards by Louise Hay.

I Love My Body: “My body is a glorious place to live.  I marvel at the miracle that is my body. I keep my body healthy.”

I Love My AGE: “I am the perfect age. Each year is special and precious to me. I shall only live it once. I am comfortable with growing older.”

I Love My WEIGHT: I am the perfect weight for myself at this moment. Yet I have the ability to change my weight if I desire. I am free.”

I Love My HEART: “I am the joy of life, expressing and receiving. Joyous new ideas circulate freely within my heart.”

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. –Buddha

Try these self- love affirmation in the morning and just before going to bed to feel and look fabulous.

P.S. Click to listen to tips on self love and body image from our fabulous guests/ experts on Feel and Look Fabulous with Irina, radio show for women.

Breathe, smile and be happy.

© Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health and Nutrition Coach and Counselor