Saturday, January 22, 2011 • Lahaina, HI 96761-9251

Giving western medicine credit...

Imagine being fit and healthy all your life and then suddenly becoming ill...I thought it was the flu, and weight loss, well, who doesn't like that? I like being slim. I blamed it on stress, for god's sake my cat had cancer and my boyfriend was having lung surgery...who wouldn't feel like crap? I should have known better...I felt strange for a few months, it took all my energy to teach my classes and come home and rest on the couch...as I walked to the car my heart rate would race - sky high. I figured I had been slacking on the cardio lately, nothing could possibly be wrong with me. We were in the busiest season at the Hotel, the Ritz Carlton Kapalua and had to bring my A game at all times, I must be 5 star at all times, how could this be happening?...I can feel my body twitching and I am so darn tired after only two yoga classes. I hoped no one else would schedule any privates this week...I need to rest more. So this is how 44 years old feels? I used to be able to teach 5 classes a day and do 5 massages a day. I was shocked how fast old age was creeping up on me. I finally got home and went straight to bed...for three days. I had a fever of 103 and I was coughing, it was the flu, it had to be, all the signs were there. I finally managed to drag myself out of bed. I should get some cough medicine, but not the lame stuff from Longs. This time I needed the good stuff, the one with codeine. I made an appointment with my doctor. I got myself there, no shower, in my PJ's..they weigh me in 118lbs, (I am usually 136lbs), my fever 100, my resting heart rate 125....what!! It is usually 56 a number I have been proud of all my life. What the heck is going on. They draw blood and I have my urine sample tested...the doctor is not happy. He says I am malnourished, in ketosis, my liver enzymes are up very high...and what is this?.. my thyroid gland is off the charts. So much for the flu. I get i.v. fluids for an hour. My doctor takes pity on me and lets me go home, but I have to come back for more fluids in the morning...this sucks. All I want is the cough medicine with codeine....please let me have some so I can sleep through this nightmare. The next day, still disoriented and feverish, the doctor orders a chest x-ray, just to be sure...he is not happy again..."young lady you have pneumonia and some abnormal growth, you need to get a CT scan immediately!" "On your way out, go the pharmacy and pick up your medicines and be sure to do everything the pharmacist tells you." Five medicines....I was shocked, but at least I got the good cough medicine! The CT scan shows pneumonia for certain and some other growth, but it is uncertain. "Come back in four weeks so we can re-test." Four weeks....what?

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I was born in NJ- grew up too fast, did too much too soon.....I found my way out at 18 years old thanks to a lucky introduction to fitness and a little ad in the back of Shape Magazine. I have been teaching mind/body fitness since 1985. I originally studied with Gloria Keeling at the Strong, Stretched & Centered Mind/Body Institute on Maui. We studied Yoga, Tai Chi, Bioenergetics, Visualization, Alexander Technique, Gelstalt Dance and Traditional Fitness. It was a very life changing and radical program. It was way before anyone talked about mind/body and I was considered to be a bit of a freak for my teaching methods back then. I worked hard to fit into the SF Bay Area instructor cliques in the 80's and had many great mentors. I always taught movement more methodically and slower than other teachers, and even though I was good at traditional teaching, I was not satisfied trashing peoples bodies. My one instructor friend used to call me "Qualude Aerobics"....and relaxation and visualization at the end my classes were either loved or hated back then...no in-between. I decided to focus on Spa and Wellness Centers. I traveled often to teach at The Oaks at Ojai California. I worked and lived at Rancho LaPuerta Spa in 1992 working with the great Cathie Murakami and Phyllis Pilgrim among other amazing people. Eventually I found my way back to Maui to be the program director at the SS&C institute in 1994 (at the time an ACE Accredited training program). I also became a licensed Hypnotherapist and competed in female bodybuilding. After 6 years of that, I traveled to Germany and taught Mind/Body Fitness at conventions throughout Europe for two years living with the great Carl Powell. Of course, Maui was calling me back to her, so I traveled back to Maui in 2002 and became the program director for The Ritz Carlton Spa in Kapalua. I began studying Hawaiian Healing and Massage Therapy with the Kupuna (elders) to expand my practice. I began providing content for Beth Shaw's YogaFit teacher training levels 2 and 3, and have been the Hawaii based trainer for YogaFit 200 Hour teacher training program since then. I currently teach and train exclusive clients at the Ritz Carlton Kapalua, and provide Lomi Lomi massage therapy in a spa setting. I am constantly learning and growing, I most recently have attended the first level Franklin Method training. I can't wait for the next one. I am always looking for creative ways to help myself and others realize their own great potential. I love living and working in a place like Maui where we meet the most amazing visitors from all over the world and enjoy the most beautiful local culture. Mahalo Nui Loa!

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