Health and Fitness

[click "Play" to listen to Laurie Madison about her CD]

Laurie - Squat-BW It is not a stretch to think of Telluride Inside... and Out as an exhale, the direct result of 17 years of inhaling – and covering for the local daily –  Telluride’s considerable cultural zazz. It is thanks to Viniyoga I learned how to manipulate my breath to create different energetic, transformative effects.

Laurie Madison, who hails from Nelson, British Columbia, was one of many wonderful people I met over a two-year course of study with Gary Kraftsow to become a certified Viniyoga instructor. (We both completed the program August 2009.)

[click "Play" for Kristin Holbrook's take on leather] From London to New York, Milan to Paris, leather looks were big this past Fall on the red carpet and fashion runways. Leather jackets, skirts and accessories continue to be hot this...

[click "Play" to listen to Kristin Holbrook talk about fingerless gloves]

FFH9-02 thumb-1 It's a look favored in Telluride by any poor sap who has just wrecked his wrist on the mountain - sort of. This week's topic for Fashion Friday from Telluride Inside... and Out's fashionista, Kristin Holbrook of Two Skirts, is fingerless gloves.

Ah yes, we remember it well: The 1980s, the happy decade sandwiched between go-get 'em social activism and self-loathing grunge. That was also the era when lots of young girls turned to the Material Girl for fashion inspiration. On "Like A Virgin," Madonna is wearing the quintessential 80s attire: a white wedding dress with white fingerless gloves.

Fast forward to the present, and another fashion icon (certainly in her own mind) Paris Hilton recently appeared on the "Ellen" show wearing a black and white ensemble that included Chanel fingerless gloves tricked out with rhinestones.