• Student Recognitions & Upper Body Strength Month

    Posted March 28, 2012 By in Blog, Special Topics, Student Forum, Student/Teacher Forum, Studio Forum With | 1 Comment

    We had a fantastic day of celebrating on March 24th and we wanted to share with you a slice of the day. Watch the video below to see the student recognitions we made.

    For the next 3 weeks we are going to continue to recognize students and teachers for their contributions and achievements. Use the form below to submit your recognition today! We will post it here on the blog for everyone to appreciate too!

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    Upper Body Strength Month

    Join us to continue the celebration as we focus on building upper body health and strength from now till April 21st. Watch this short video from Kristen to learn how you can participate and work on strength when you are not in the studio.

  • Inspirations

    Posted May 25, 2011 By in Student/Teacher Forum With | No Comments

    I thought we would kick off our student-teacher forum with a little bit of inspiration I brought back from my recent week away.

    On our 13-hour drive to Utah last week I was listening to a Buddhist teacher by the name of Philllip Moffit, whom I adore. It was a talk on fear. icon smile Inspirations Relevant for most of us, I think.

    There was a lovely little tidbit about body observation in order to work with fear:

    Because all of us experience fear in some form throughout our day, everyday we also know or can know the experience of fear in the body. One of the physiological responses when fear comes on is a production of adrenaline. The adrenal glands are located just atop each kidney, sitting like gracefully coiled, sleeping snakes ready to strike at any moment to protect, fight, and respond. When this happens the body experience intensifies and tenses taking on that ready-to-strike position. Read More …

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