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 …
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 eyes) and I am in my happy …
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 so …
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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 …
There are quite a few items – edible and non-edible – that I have started keeping around me as I get deeper and deeper into obtaining a lifestyle of optimal health (I have to mention that optimal health includes enjoying a high quality tequila or an incredible cut of steak every once in a while! …
I used to get really intimidated by the pictures of all those yoga teachers in superhuman poses. They are floating into handstands, bending into shapes I cannot begin to physically imagine my body getting into. And they are all so ….thin. Not unhealthy, mind you. Just a hell of a lot smaller than me! Well, …
So many people are stressed out right about now. Though we have different causes for the stress, one thing we can generally agree upon: a great place to relieve that stress is the gym. I really should just name this “Top Pet Peeves” or “Don’t Be So Rude” or “Really? You Have your Phone???”, or …
Have you ever thought of taking a bellydance class? Like most people who have contemplated shaking their hips or rolling their belly, you probably talked yourself out of doing it because you thought you could never “move like that” or you have no rhythm or anything else you could possibly say to talk yourself out …
New year, new resolutions! Hey, why not, resolutions are meant to be broken, anyway right? That “firm decision to do or not do something” may actually work this year. Yeah, you should read that last sentence with as much sarcasm as you can possibly muster up. I am not being a killjoy. I am just …
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