Grab your leg warmers or brightest coloured clothes – clear some space in your lounge room and get ready to rock out with me.
Yoga – Pilates – Aerobics – and my own special something something – it’s so special it doesn’t have a name 🙂
You can chose camera on or off but let’s move our bodies, have some fun and party like its 1999.
Date: Â Saturday 2nd May
Time: Â 6-7pm
Where: Your house
Cost $10
It’s the mega party to kick start 2019 with a bang. A combination of yoga, pilates, old skool aerobics, some choreographed danced moves (that you’ll pick up easily).
This is the event we’ve been waiting for – the trilogy of the last two events held at Semi Pro Brewing Co, and yes they’re hosting us again and it is going to be RAD!
So grab your leotards and leg warmers coz this event is dress up my friends, and there is even a prize for best dressed.
Date: January 12 2019
Time: 10:15-11:30
Dress Code: 80’s or 90’s awesomeness
Where: Semi Pro Brewing Co – 69 Manilla Street East Brisbane.
Cost: $30
(includes – a rockin 80’s/90’s fitness party. I’ll provide the moves you just need to show up smile, follow along, and add your own flare. A take home memorabilia for all guests. A small magnificent beer from Semi-Pro. A cheese & fruit platter to finish. A whole load of fun).
No yoga, pilates, dance experience required. This is a super fun event for all ages and fitness levels. Do a little or do it all, it is up to you.
Sorry no refunds for the event but you are welcome to transfer your ticket in the super sad occurence that you are unable to attend.
Movement!
Our bodies are meant to move, they are designed to move well and they are supposed to move often.
The next time you get up from your desk after a prolonged episode of sitting – feel how tight, stiff and sore your body feels, then sit back down and look at the angle of your legs.
It is no wonder when our legs are in a 90 degree angle for the majority of the day; at a desk, in a car, on the couch – that when we get up to stretch our legs…..
….. our calves feel tight, our hammies are tight, the glutes are sore, your back aches and your shoulder and neck hurt from being hunched over all day……
I get it – I have been where you are, and I have been there when I went back to a desk job after teaching – which was 100 times worse, after moving so often to being stationary.
Our bodies are meant to move.
If you don’t move often you will cramp up.
If you don’t keep moving your joints through a full range of motion as you age you will lose the ability to use these joints – sounds scary doesn’t it?
Well it is!
I used to do some remedial work with an elderly lady as years of inactivity had literally rendered her muscles useless, she couldn’t open her hands and could not get up out of bed without assistance.
If you want to be able to open jars, reach things up high (unless you are a short ass like me) squat down to pick things up or even do up your shoes, you need to move before it is too late.
I know for some people (heck even me sometimes) the thought of going to a gym is as desirable as watching paint dry – so find what you love, dance in your loungeroom, try something new, or try a different instructor.
Not to toot my own horn (ok just a little honk ) I recently had a lovely comment from a man new to my yoga classes, telling me that he hated yoga before, but loves it now due to the unique way I teach.
Now do not get me wrong – my style is not for everyone, and that’s ok.
Find an instructor you click with who makes you feel joyous about what you do and you will want to do it more often.
Work out what it is you love, and if it is dancing around while you cook – then do it – boom – make your meals and burn calories – that’s a double thumbs up in my books.
Think outside the box and don’t be afraid to try out some new things, but most importantly move move and move some more.
x
Pilates? Oh, heavens no. I thought you said “Pie and lattes.”
Well that’s awkward 🙂
Let’s avoid further embarrassment and come and join me on Sunday 7 January 2018
For a 45 min Pilates classes (including a stretch and relax)
Finishing with laughter, chats a sweet pie & latte’
This is no joke!
****Gluten free, sugar free, egg free? Oh heaven’s no!********
Sorry but the pie’s are as they come no special dietary options available.
Purchase tickets through shop
Join me for a night to remember. As we celebrate all things fitness. Combining yoga, pilates, and a few power moves.
Held at the historic & heritage listed Springhill baths, where brightly coloured doors encircle a crisp & inviting pool (and we have the whole venue to ourselves).
Behind each coloured door is your individual change room – inside each door is your goodie bag (valued at over $20)
But it’s outside where the magic will really happen.
I will be guiding you through a series of exercises (both in and out of the pool), a fun journey through the ages of fitness.
Before social media was a beast of comparison, ladies wore pantaloons for swimming & lollies were a sixpence.
Just as Arnold Schwarzenegger was pumping iron, Jane Fonda was high kicking her legwarmers onto our TV’s we will be moving through the times, in a most special way.
The choreographed shenanigans will get the heart rate up, we will splash our toes in the pool with reckless abandon, before jumping in and cooling off.
This is all about movement, laughter and fun.
This is a celebration of fitness and joy.
This location is one of Brisbanes best kept secrets – now the secret is out – don’t miss your spot!
This is an event not to be missed!
No refunds on cancellations less than 24 hours before the event!
Ticket purchases through Shop
Hands up – I am guilty of this!
We need to lift weights to help with our bone density.
We need some cardio to get our heart rate up.
Think about what you focus on and what you neglect. Where do your priorities go?
It’s not too late to add in some extra things to your routine, or change your schedule a little to give yourself a more holistic and well-balanced healthy fitness lifestyle!
Step two – we’ll focus on this shortly.
When it comes to exercise it is important to mix it up!
While I strongly advocate for finding a style of exercise that you love (or you simply will not exercise if you don’t enjoy it) you need to vary things from time to time.
You see our bodies, much like our minds need to be challenged or they become complacent.
Have you ever noticed that let’s say you start a new form of exercise and your weight changes or your body changes with great results straight away, then after some time you plateau.
This happens, that’s why it is important to mix it up!
Shock your body, challenge your mind. Try something new or slightly vary what you do.
There are so many ways to be creative and we are so fortunate to have YouTube at our fingertips so we can be creative in the comfort of our own home.
Seriously the other day I danced around my room and had the most amounts of fun, got my heart rate up, and had a bonus ab work out as I was laughing at myself so much.
It’s great therapy.
For anyone wanting a very different workout and an awesome laugh – come and join me tomorrow for a 1980’s playlist and moves that will keep you topped up with feel good energy for weeks 🙂
3:30 – 4:30 Saturday April 1 at Greenslopes – Brisbane
Bookings essential – head on over to the shop and book in now.
The last few months I have been juggling a communications job, while still teaching yoga, pilates and body balance. It has been hectic and I have felt tired and stressed.
Finding the time to write with a clear mind has been challenging to say the least.
My communications job and teaching job could not be two worlds further apart.
Instead of writing (even though it pains me to have put it on hold) I have been focussing on finding beautiful moments in the edges of my days.
Capturing moments of fresh air and daylight.
I have discovered that when I can live outside these two worlds, when I can sit and enjoy the edges of the day, that is when the magic really happens.
Where possible I will get ready for work even three minutes earlier and using those three minutes to sit outside and just breathe.
What has been getting me through is taking a ten minute walk at lunch time, or leaving the office in time to see the last fifteen minutes of a sunset.
In the edges of the day, surrounded by nature, my brain is momentarily clear and focussed.
I can write my class plans, I can reflect and I can re-energise.
In the edges of the day that is where all the magic happens.
To those of you who have been reading my blog when I have not been updating nearly as frequently as I should, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
x
Today; in between getting up at 5am teaching two morning fitness classes, doing remedial work with a lady at a nursing home, learning choreography, doing my invoices, meditating for 20 minutes and mentally preparing for the next two classes of the evening, I caught my reflection in my blender and wondered who the frick am I ?
I mean seriously, look at this blender filled with green goodness, when did I turn from the KFC eating high school punk to the exercising, spiritual, kale drinking smoothie I have become?
Who is this fit, flexible girl I see staring back at me from the pictures, this same girl who used to hate the gym who now teaches at them promoting fitness on a regular basis.
This small framed girl who is suddenly (without warning it feels ) is covered on muscles.
This girl who is still me, who is still the same but is also completely different.
This girl who just went to Perth with her girlfriends and ate her body weight in cheese, bread, chocolate, coffee and wine~
~ and would do that every weekend if she could 🙂
This girl who teaches yoga to people to relax, then blurts out words excitedly, quickly in an anything but relaxed manner.
This girl who teaches body balance, then trips over nothing on the way out of class.
This pilates trainer who has a strong core but can not do a handstand.
This girl who lives life with reckless abandon who craves adventure yet yearns for serenity.
This girl who feels so young at heart, yet knows she is growing older.
Who am I ?
A walking contradiction, or simply a girl wanting to experience everything, to be everything, to feel everything.
To be the best person I can be inside and out.
To be who I am without even really knowing who I am myself!
So my advice to you all, should you find yourself staring at your reflection through a green mush of kale, don’t question, don’t stress, don’t judge – just be!
How often have you had a terrible class, your mind is unfocused and cluttered, and everything you seem to try fails.
So often it is the thoughts we have before even stepping foot on our mat that have the greatest impact on how our class will play out.
Those thoughts of what if I am not good enough, fit enough, flexible enough.
What if everyone in the room is better than me….
Those negatives ‘what if’s’ will break you.
What if:
As you picked up your yoga mat you thought whatever happens in this next hour is ok;
What if :
As you rolled out your mat you thought, I am here, I am trying, I am exactly where I am meant to be in my practice and my life and I am perfectly happy with that;
What if:
At the end of the class whatever the outcome you felt proud of everything you just achieved, rather than berating yourself for the things you didn’t!
What if you turned yourself into a warrior and not a worrier.
