Life is quite a journey, with many highs and lows and twists and turns. It can be easy to set our focus on our daily tasks and to lose sight of the bigger picture. Before we know it we lose sense of the “why” behind the things we are doing, and start to feel unfulfilled. …
Traveling has tremendous benefits for us and the people around us. Traveling opens our minds to new cultures and experiences. It takes us away from our everyday stressors to allow us to recharge and reset. If you choose to travel, here are 5 wonderful benefits. 5 benefits of travel: Improves your health Traveling …
Traveling during and after a pandemic. Just a word or 2. Or 3… Whether you say no way would I ever (as is completely your right. You need to be comfortable with whatever decisions you make). Hmmmmm, been thinking about it but I don’t know or anything else. If you happen to decide to travel, …
Before You Start an Exercise Program: These Are The Wrong Reasons I used to exercise because I was ashamed of my body. I worked tirelessly to make it look like something I thought it should be. In the process, I looked rather good :). But in that same process, came arthritis, multiple overuse injuries, and …
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Meditation is loosely defined as a practice used to both train attention and awareness and achieve mental clarity and emotional stability. The practice includes several techniques, such as breathing or moving, to achieve the goal of heightened attention and emotional stability. Beyond this loose definition, many scholars have struggled to define the phenomenon more precisely. …
For so long, for years, maybe even forever, my dream was to own my own Studio, fitness facility. A “space” and place to house this movement and experience called empowerFit Wellness. So many opportunities have presented themselves only to fall completely flat. Really flat like, pancake flat…..dreams crushed, flat..ready to give up….. While those opportunities have …
For the love of sweat and asana Hot yoga. It’s hot, sweaty, kinda yucky and…it’s good for you! About 5 days a week you can find me sweating out my edges in a hot yoga or Bikram class. Give me a mat, some heat and a couple of towels (to wipe alllll that sweat out of my …
I hurt myself in yoga class. Yes, if you do it wrong it hurts. Really bad. So bad I did not lift weights for my upper body for about 2 months. That’s a really big deal for me. It’s hard when you can’t move like you are used to moving. And, lifting weights is …
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My love of travel began with road trips to Virginia, Gary, Indiana and Washington D.C. in our orange Cougar XR-7 with my family, the car filled with the music of Gary Byrd, The Brothers Johnson and Parliament Funkadelic, the smell of freshly fried chicken and Wise potato chips and me lying across the Popeye-themed sheet …
I’m going to make this intro as quick and painless as possible. Or as painless as the truth can be. Let’s get all the juicy stuff out of the way so we don’t need to have some huge Oprah-type reveal later: Some days I look in the mirror and I see a goddess, an African …
