Credit: Kym Balthazar | Rev. Diane Sullivan

This annual issue falls in January for one good reason: It’s January. The first month in a new year is all the incentive we need to at least vow to get fit, clean up our diets or … stop snoring? Yes, one writer takes on his sleep apnea by playing the didgeridoo. And by learning circular breathing, which is cool. We pick up some pointers from a plus-size yogi and check out two pastimes keeping seniors on their toes — a Burlington pickleball league and a butt-busting boot camp in Middlebury. Hey, nobody’s getting any younger, so… We vicariously experience halotherapy — aka down time in a salt cave — in Montgomery. Can NaCl cure and calm us? Maybe. But we’re especially happy to learn that saturated fats are back on the eat-this list. Pass the butter!

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Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont...