Exercise

If it's Way too hot where you are, come here to cool down. And if your winters aren't cold enough for you, Quebec City'll give you a good chill during Winter Carnival. All year, it's a beautiful and beyond-charming old town, like a small French city that landed in North America.

Like all second-Mondays-of-the-month this year, it comes with a simple, gentle one-minute Way to increase your flexibility. C'mon, on your back! Now hug 'em. Both. This is a real feel-good stretch.

Walking through the rainforest in Manuel Antonio National Park is an extreme version of changing your perspective. With or without a guide, you learn to look and listen so carefully it's like you've acquired some completely new power of observation. I'm going to try this in Central Park.

Like all first-Mondays-of-the-month that don't come with New Year's hangovers, today's comes with a simple, gentle one-minute Way to improve your health. Get up! C'mon, you can read standing up. By the time you finish reading this, you're done with the first rep of today's healthy exercise.

I was thinking about the totally weird and beautiful skyline of New Mexico's Tent Rocks while I walked down the suddenly deserted Park Avenue canyon last week. The wind chill was below zero. I was the only human. A landscape I take for granted became a new world. I wonder if the Cochiti Indians notice these Tent Rocks.

A 1-minute exercise that really makes you aware of the Way you use your core muscles to stabilize and balance yourself. To maintain your center of balance when your arms and legs are going their own ways. Spinal Balance is a great Way to strengthen and stretch all those muscles.