Health and Fitness

Popular Senior Iyengar Instructor Nancy Stechert of Hotchkiss Yoga Tree, a regular at the Telluride Yoga Festival, returns to Telluride to teach an Iyengar Yoga Workshop this weekend, Friday, March 29 - Sunday, March 31, at the Telluride Yoga Center.  Having practiced with Nancy as often as possible,...

Dr. Alan Safdi, a world-renowned internist and gastroenterologist with encyclopedic knowledge of mind-body wellness and preventative medicine, returns to Telluride Inside… and Out with a series of posts under the banner of “To Your Health.” His blogs feature the most current information in his field:...

Purchase your pass to the the 2019 Telluride Yoga Festival. Learn more about the presenters here. View the schedule here. Scroll down to read about some of the major presenters and Yoga Fest highlights. The 2019 Telluride Yoga Festival announced its preliminary lineup in January. After a record...

Authors Uncovered, the ongoing event collaboration between Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library and Between the Covers Bookstore, has one more speaker scheduled before off-season sets in. On Friday, March 22, 6 p.m. at the library, Cedaredge-based science writer Christie Aschwanden presents a reading from her new...

Dr. Alan Safdi, a world-renowned internist and gastroenterologist with encyclopedic knowledge of mind-body wellness and preventative medicine, returns to Telluride Inside… and Out with a series of posts under the banner of “To Your Health.” His blogs feature the most current information in his field:...

Last time we posted news about Telluride's homegrown superstar, Gus Kenworthy, he was rubbing elbows with other stars in New York at the opening of Nordstrom's Men's Store. But today Gus, who won silver in Men's Slopeside at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, has...

Dr. Alan Safdi, a world-renowned internist and gastroenterologist with encyclopedic knowledge of mind-body wellness and preventative medicine, returns to Telluride Inside… and Out with a series of posts under the banner of “To Your Health.” His blogs feature the most current information in his field: healthy,...

The 2019 Telluride AIDS Benefit  may over and done and looking over its shoulder at another successful year raising funds for its 8 beneficiaries, but the need to “Fight. Fund. Educate" is not. The decades-long HIV epidemic still persists in the United States and worldwide, with nearly 39,000...

PTSD is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Susannah Smith speaks out on the subject. In order to be diagnosed with PTSD, a person has to have “exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence….” (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V). Exposure can be by...