I started thinking about real life workouts today because my morning kind of went like this:
I got up and had breakfast and realized while drinking my second cup of tea that I had somehow forgotten that this was a day when my teaching started at 8 […]
My feet had had enough. After a challenging handstands class (If you’re not sure why handstands would bother my feet, try getting into a down dog pike position, then jump up and down for an hour. That’s basically what a handstands class is.) and wandering around Capitol Hill for PrideFest, […]
I was thinking about habits and how quickly and easily they can be broken even before my mother fractured her spine and I realized her ability to form and follow through on habits had also been fractured.
Was it a series of mini-strokes? Is it the result of two years of […]
Just in the past several weeks I’ve had many clients come to me with a new diagnosis of either osteoporosis or osteopenia. It’s understandable: my typical clientele is female-bodied folks over 60 and with that group we’ve got a collision of two important factors. One is that female-bodied folks are […]
When I began doing aerials, I suddenly became very vocal when I was working out and training.
Me, playing with a baby hoop in an outdoor aerial rig a few years ago.
When I began doing straps (a type of aerials where you […]
Something I find myself saying a lot while teaching is “Set yourself up well.” What I mean by that exactly depends on what we’re setting ourselves up for, but the bottom line is the same regardless: It really helps your body to set it up for what you’re planning to […]
“Don’t make plans; make options.” This has been the motto for me and my partner this year, and I thought about it in relation to fitness in a Facebook post I made recently.
This isn’t a motto that comes easily to me because I like plans. I like spreadsheets. I like to […]
We’ve all been on Zoom for a good long time now and there’s so much we’re tired of. Fussing with the audio, blinding ourselves by staring into a ring light, figuring out the right backdrop in our homes that weren’t designed with video in mind, managing family needs and pets, […]
