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Pilates! Your Holiday Savior! -This is adapted from a previous presentation. My Observations: With over 25 years in the fitness industry I have observed that holiday stress along with some overindulgence of the food & beverage kind often result in increased injuries, illness and fatigue. It also may be a bit more tempting to skip...

Life Happens! Use Adversity & Stress To Take Action It’s December 2016. I’m at a rehabilitation facility for my total hip arthroscopy. It’s Christmas Eve Day & I was scheduled to leave but was told I would have to wait till after the holiday. I took a breath & accepted this. Then, another patient arrived...

Live An Active Balanced Life Thank You To My Parents In honor of my parents anniversary I want this to be a shout out to my wonderful & active parents. They instilled in me the importance of exercise & being able to laugh at yourself!  They are my role models for balance in life & they...

The Importance of Exercising Outdoors And Being Around Nature My Moving Meditation: Nature reframes your brain. Health & Wellness are part of your lifestyle…Great job! If you dance you spend most of your time in a studio. Weight lifter? You’re in the gym. Spinning, you’re in a studio, on a bike to nowhere. That’s awesome...

Avoid the one posture that will add ten years to your appearance! Forward Head  Rounded Shoulders  Be More Like A Giraffe & Less Like A Turtle! Have you ever seen someone whose head arrives minutes before their body? In an earlier blog (Live An Active Balanced Life: Make Your Life A Moving Meditation) I mentioned...

Live An Active Balanced Life Increase Your Body Awareness Are your Occiput, Sacrum, Calcaneus tawkin’ to each other? Let’s begin with a brief anatomical reference: 1) Occiput Back of the skull 2) Sacrum: “The holy bone” It is at the bottom of the spine between L (lumbar) 5 & the coccyx (tailbone). 3) Calcaneus: “The...