Fundamentals of Mindful Online Gym

Have you pushed yourself too hard through exercise knowing that it might not be the best thing for your body?

We’ve all been there and hate suffering the negative results afterwards.

I have struggled with those same issues myself and have found a way to master them after trial and error and personal practice.

I have been helping clients with these issues during my career for almost 20 years as a trainer and health coach and today I’m announcing something very exciting for those of you that want to become very strong, without pulling muscles, feeling drained, exhausted, or empty of the fun desire to exercise.

The Fundamentals of Mindful Gym has been born!

If you love the theme of….gentleness, kindness, lightness, ease, and flow, please read on.

I’m inviting you to a "gentle challenge" during 21 days where you will:

• Reduce your body pain
• Feel better about the way you look
• Increase your fun desire to exercise so you don’t need to get yourself motivated all the time
• Start losing weight again if you’ve hit a plateau
• Get in the best shape of your life through a mindful, guided process

Balance, equilibrium, grounding along with enhanced flexibility, strength and overall calm  comes from the practice of gentle yoga. 

The fundamentals being quite simple, revolve around mindful awareness of mind, body and breath. It’s that simple, yet takes practices to reap the rewards of this ancient science. You will learn seated and standing poses to enhance more comfort in your body and mental state.

By learning the power of deep breathing, rhythmic stretch and balancing postures to strengthen the body, mind and spirit, you’ll gain focus, concentration and peace of mind from a revived sense of energy and vitality. 

Tools for class: yoga mat, (2) yoga blocks, a firm blanket and a strap.

Pilates is a more than 100-year-old method of body conditioning that strengthens and tones the body from the inside out, improves posture, develops flexibility and muscular balance, and connects body and mind.

In this Fundamentals of Pilates series, you will:

• Understand and access your “powerhouse,” the deep, stabilizing muscles of your core - your thighs, deep pelvic and abdominal muscles, and back.
• Lay the foundation of spinal flexibility, strength, and correct positioning for safe, effective workouts
• Learn modifications to ensure a gentle, deeply strengthening workout, without aggravating previous injuries, aches and pains. 

Qigong (chee-GONG) translates literally to working with your vital energy. Our culture doesn’t recognize the concept of vital energy, so we can’t take advantage of it. We’ve been separated from the very power that sustains us.

Qigong teaches us how to be our healthiest, most vibrant self—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—by working with our extraordinary connection with nature.

You are an energy being. You have a healer within. Qigong teaches you how to reconnect with this inner healer to be your best. When you have health challenges on any level mentioned above, it means you are out of balance energetically. Qigong restores your body to balance so it can heal itself, maintain health, and ultimately reach peak potential. It’s the most powerful holistic healing method known to humankind.

Join Jan for this introduction to Qigong to learn how to reclaim your best health and activate your inner healer. Qigong heals, uplifts, and propels you toward your best health.

This class is designed for beginners and a perfect introduction to the foundations of dance and coordinated movement. The class will start with a deep stretch and warm up, movement principles and progressions across the floor, and will finish with a dance combination taught to music. Concepts such as body awareness, alignment, strength, flexibility and endurance will be introduced and explored. Students are guided through the fundamentals of dance in a relaxed and informative class to provide knowledge behind the basic technique, dance vocabulary and coordination of dancing!

Stretching is a key component of any well round of exercise routine. This vital component is overlooked by many of us.

Regular stretching keeps our muscles flexible, lean, long, strong and healthy, and we need that flexibility to maintain a range of motion in the joints.

Stretching has a positive effect on moods, making you feel better, it produces endorphins which works as a happiness booster and stress reliever.

Stretching is a very good option for those who want to:

• Improve their posture.
• Prevents loss of range of motion.
• Improve circulation.
• Prevent injuries and recovery  after an injury.
• Enhance athletic performance.
• Relax the muscle after a hard training.

And remember, perfect flexibility doesn’t come overnight.

This class is recommended if you want to break out of the non-beneficial movement patterns that keep you misaligned, stiff, and uncomfortable.

Julia, one of our Mindful Online Workouts expert trainers, will focus on reviving the areas that need it and taking the burden off the areas that are working too hard. 

She will focus on getting muscles to work in the correct direction, at the proper length, with the correct amount of force = Better Function and Increased Stability, which help lessen the chance of injury.

• Your Movement Patterns Create Your Posture.
• Your Body Can Learn to Move in Alignment.
• A Solid Platform Enables You to Thrive.