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6 Health Benefits of Yoga & Support Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Vixely met up with our two friends that just so happen to be professional yoga instructors, Kate O’Connor and Lauren Taus, to learn more about the importance of yoga. Kate came up with the Vix Six Health Benefits of Yoga describing the advantages of practicing yoga to ensure you live a sexy and centered life. Vix Six [...]

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Vix Six: Serious Relationship Red Flags

Hindsight is always 20/20, particularly when it comes to dating and relationships. So often it seems we look back and can see with certainty when we extended ourselves too much for a partner who wasn’t equally there for us, or when we knew something wasn’t right and yet how we continued to pursue a relationship [...]

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S.A.F.E. Documentary “Corrie Goes to Kenya” Helps Women in Need

On Friday, the U.K. charity S.A.F.E. was featured in the first of two one-hour documentaries, Corrie Goes to Kenya. In these programs, four actors from the popular British TV soap opera Coronation Street work with S.A.F.E.’s own Kenyan actors to spread information about HIV and AIDS. The episodes follow their journey as they create and perform a series [...]

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Music to Get You in the Mood

I hear from a lot of women that getting in the mood is not always easy, particularly on workdays. They have a hard time mentally letting go of work stress. They are busy with work and yoga and life. When they get home at night, the idea of getting hot and heavy with a wanting partner [...]

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Vixely’s Guide to Yoga in “Endless Summer of Love” iPad Magazine

Why is yoga so good for you? Here’s a sneak peak of our “Guide to Yoga” from the Second Issue of Vixely’s iPad Magazine ”Endless Summer of Love”, where we met up with the lovely and talented Kate O’Connor and Lauren Taus, two amazing friends who just happen to be professional yoga instructors. Check out Kate’s advice on [...]

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Sex in Silicon Valley Part II: Is Being Single In SF Really That Bad?

I recently received an email from a friend (we are going to call her X as she would like to remain anonymous) asking for my opinion on her blog/ manifesto “Why SF Really Is That Bad,” her assessment of being a single woman in San Francisco and the social dynamics of Silicon Valley. Upon reading it, [...]

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Career Advice: If You Could Do Anything, What Would You Do?

It is not exactly an easy question to answer. Lawyer-turned-writer and “self-help guru” Alexis Sclamberg challenges us to imagine our dream life, and to go for it. Is Your Job Making You Miserable? I’ve Got a Game For You by Alexis Sclamberg for Huffington Post I’ve started playing a game with my peers. When they [...]

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In Bed with TED: Advice from “The Power of Vulnerability” (Video)

This Easter holiday, Vixely wanted to share this amazingly empowering and self-reflecting TED Talk with storyteller and researcher Brené Brown. In the video, Brown explains how we as humans need to feel a sense of connection to others to thrive and that we can best give to one another by first loving and accepting ourselves. As [...]

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Vixely Q&A: Battle of the Sexes

Vixely received this email from “Ed” on the battle of the sexes and offered the following as our response! What do you think, dear readers? Q: Dear Vixely, My Name is Ed, I’m a battle of the sexes sociologist, and never in the course of human history have we teetered so close to the brink [...]

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Relationship Advice: The Importance of Finding Your Passions (Video)

Sex and Relationship Writer Kristen Macfarlane of Bouquetsandbjs.com  shares her advice with Vixely readers, and reminds us that even when you are in a relationship, it is equally up to you to focus on yourself and on cultivating your own passions for the most fulfilling relationship with your partner.

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