Breathe, Release and Feel The Relief!

Yoga offers physical and mental health benefits for all ages. The holiday season can bring up a myriad of issues that can affect digestive issues, weakened immune systems and general drops in energy. If you feel stress and anxiety, yoga can help you remain calm, collected and mindful throughout the rest of the holiday season.

9 Ways Yoga can help

1. Yoga improves balance, strength and flexibility. Doing slow movements and deep breathing increase blood flow and warm up muscles. Holding a pose will build strength.
2. Yoga can really help back pain. Stretching your back in yoga eases pain and improves mobility, especially for people with lower back pain.
3. Arthritis symptoms are helped with yoga. The discomfort of arthritis has been shown to be lessened with practicing yoga.
4. There are heart benefits with practicing yoga. The relaxing your body helps reduce body wide inflammation and stress and help you loose weight.
5. Practicing consistent yoga will help you sleep and get a consistent bedtime routine. It will prepare your body to fall asleep and stay asleep.
6. Yoga can give you more energy and happier moods. Yoga can give and increase in alertness and enthusiasm. It can give you a brighter mood.
7. Yoga helps you manage stress. Practicing yoga supports stress management and mental health, mindfulness, healthy eating, weight loss and quality sleep.
8. Yoga can help you connect with a supportive community with group yoga. You can ease loneliness and be in an environment for group healing and support.
9. Yoga helps you with better self care. Numerous studies show yoga’s benefits in arthritis, osteopenia, balance issues, oncology, women’s health, chronic pain and other health issues.

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Why I Became A Support Broker

by Janice Freedman

I saw an advertisement on a local Hunterdon County group Facebook page looking for a support broker in July, and was drawn to the job description. Our CEO and Founder, Jennifer Brown wrote she was looking for kind, smart, supportive and understanding people who wanted to help others. I had a long career in Sales and was ready to finally be able to help others. 

Like many of us at the Eiros Group, I have a family member who has a disability. My brother’s son Robert was born with Autism, but it wasn’t diagnosed untill he was three years old, more specifically diagnosed with Aspergers. 

When Robert was five, his mother died of an aneurism. My sister in law had just given birth to her third child, and now Robert and the two other children were left without a mother. Robert didn’t react to his mother’s not being there, but he did react strongly to putting on the church dress shirt and tie my mother laid out for him to wear. My mother and brother were learning how to pick their battles with my nephew, and Robert wore his favorite striped t shirt, shorts and sneakers. He was quiet all through the church service and didn’t say anything till we were walking in the cemetery. He saw the casket and asked if his mom was in the box, he was told she was, and he nodded, okay. Robert did not show any emotion of losing his mother, he went to school, he came home and played with whichever grandparent or babysitter was there. 

As time went on, Robert excelled at school and in high school, he got a job in a supermarket as a cashier. Robert had no interest in learning how to drive, and used his bicycle to go places locally. He moved away from home, and went to college in Savannah, Georgia. Robert made the choice to leave college one semester short of graduation with a degree in electrical engineering. Robert then moved to Long Island to live with his mother’s brother and his family. He then got a job in a local supermarket as a cashier again, a job he enjoyed doing. After several years, Robert was promoted to an accounting position at the supermarket, which he is doing well in. He moved to an apartment within walking distance of the supermarket that he shares with a friend from work. Robert has a few friends that he socializes with and plays computer games in his apartment. He goes to his Uncle's house for dinners from time to time, and holidays. My six foot seven inches blonde nephew looks like a happy Viking, Robert is living his best life.

My position at the Eiros Group is community mapping which is finding helpful and resources for our valued customers. I enjoy doing research to find interesting local events, fun places to go in our customers neighborhoods, participate with others, and be out in our community.  Robert taught me a lot of things and continues to do so... Compassion, understanding, empathy, and that all any of us wants and needs is to have purpose and put our abilities to work. Robert and I have both found our niches!