Blogs about Mind-Body Fitness

     When it comes to change, mindset is one of the ultimate drivers in taking action towards achieving a goal. As a a person giving or receiving information, it is often just hearing the benefits and downfalls of certain strategies are not enough to bring an individual to the brink of action. In other words, you as an individual are entirely responsible for changing.

It was 7am and I was on my way to the race.  I was nervous about the swim.  It was where I had gotten crushed the year before.  Ocean swims were not my strength.  I grew up swimming in a pool.  The biggest wave you got hit with in a pool was from the swimmer next to you or from the feet of the swimmer in front of you.  Swim team was completely different from the crest and fall of an ocean wave.  Not to mention the fact that there are no walls to grab onto in the ocean if you get tired or need a rest! 

Wellness Matters Magazine May/June 2013 Issue www.wellnessmattersmagazine.com You've Got to Move It, Move It!Pilates for a Symbiotic Mind and Bodyby Monique Molino 

ok so im on the computer of course diddle dalying around. I need to get up so i can workout my over exausted, non sleeping body. Anyone know what that feels like? I am going to move now and put some good sound on and get moving. I hope I can push though an hour of circuit training. I am on a mission to loose about 6 lbs before I am in a bikini everyday. wish me luck on the start of my new journey.

 Today life is crammed with demands on personal time, energy, and space. When you continuously care for others without taking care of yourself, you reach beyond your capacity to function.  Like a hard drive with too much information, you essentially crash and burn due to these physical and mental imbalances. At a Pilates class it’s your time to recharge your batteries so you can rediscover your mind-body equilibrium. The Pilates breathing technique will help you to capitalize on your strengths without wearing yourself down. 

A yoga essence is a way of living in communion.  Using a yoga essence in conjunction with our energy centers is specific to the symbolism and associations of various parts of our bodies.  For example our 1st energy center is located around the coccygeal plexus and incorporates the color red, community and success, the sound lahm and is associated with the essence of inclusion being without judgment of our bodies or others.  The 2nd energy center is located around the sacral plexus and is associated with the right to feel, symbolic of the

 It sure is easy to feel that way when an otherwise fit and healthy person (me) tries yoga. I began to be intrigued when participants in my MELT classes (or Pilates for that matter) all of a sudden told me that that ‘was yoga’. I am not a yoga teacher, and I am also not a yoga practitioner but I respect this modality highly. I am also aware that there are many schools of yoga which can vary quite fundamentally from one another in addition to all the hybrid creations of the western world (my favorite is probably hip-hop yoga). 

 

Justin's family and mine have been really good friends for many years, a friendship that's more like some family you get to choose, which is how I earned the affectionate title as Justin's aunt Rachel.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Todayis a day that many of us reflect on allwe have to be grateful for. This is aperfect chance to wish you all ahappy holiday, but also inspire some additionalgratefulness.   As many of you know, I went to Atlanta recently forContinuing Education Expo anddecided while I was there to take aTae Bo class with the famous