It is well published and believed that regular exercise can enhance our mood. But how is this physiologically explained? How is it that physical stresses on our body from physical exercise can impact our psychological stresses? We know very little to date on why it is that exercise has these effects.

This article from the New York Times explores the role of newly formed nerve cells in the brain with exercise, serotonin and dopamine in the brain.  And discusses a few interesting rat studies! The article concludes on a positive note that regular aerobic work outs for perhaps as little as 3-6 weeks (based on those rat studies) can bring about these physiological changes. So, it won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/phys-ed-why-exercise-makes-you-less-anxious/?em

Dr Lorimer Moseley is a clinical scientist investigating pain in humans. He has published 60 papers and two books (Explain Pain (2003)). He started out with a physio undergraduate degree, but has since completed a PhD in Pain in 2001 from University of Sydney and was a Research Fellow at Oxford in the UK.

Have you ever wondered how pain actually works in the human body? About chronic pain? Or about pain that exists even if a limb does not such as with phantom limb pain in amputees?

Listen to Lorimer begin to explain things beautifully in this hour long interview.

http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby

(24th November, 2009)

Each year for the first weeks of the year, we conduct 4-5 classes per week until the Term 1 start date. This year is no exception. This January, Summer School classes will run on Tuesdays the 5th, 12th and 19th January. They will be taught by Katrina and are a mixed class of Intermediate/ Advanced levels. Classes will run at the following times - 12pm, 1pm, 5.15pm and 6.15pm.

Classes are $29 each and can be claimed through your private health insurer as usual. So you have no reason not to get back into the new year exercise regime as soon as possible!

If you are interesetd in joining these classes, please give the office a call on 9264 0077, or write your expression of interest on the waiting list in the studio when next at class.