Mental Muscle Wellness

General Fitness•Mental Health

Movement as Gratitude

November 12, 2024
Trigger Warning: Discussions of trauma and disordered eating. Hello Warriors! In North America, it’s Thanksgiving season. In the US we will celebrate in a few weeks and our friends in Canada had their festivities in mid-October. I’m a big fan of gratitude practices as tools for Mental and Emotional Health. And I strongly believe that
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General Fitness•Mental Health

Value Add Part 4: Mental and Emotional Health

October 22, 2024
Hello Warriors! I’m coming at you today with the fourth installment of my Value Add Series. Throughout this series, I am trying to highlight how exercise and movement positively impact other areas of wellness. Other than Physical Health benefits, regular movement can play a huge part in Mental and Emotional Health. So let’s dive right
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Body Positivity•General Fitness

The Importance of Body Diversity in Movement Spaces

October 8, 2024
Welcome back, Warrior! Awhile back I touched on Focal Points, how our body looks, and how that plays into our overall wellness. Body size is actually paramount, but not in the way we have been taught to believe. And I want to take a bit of time today to talk about why seeing diverse bodies
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Dimensions of Wellness•Exercise

Value Add Part 3: Social Health

September 24, 2024
Hi Warriors, I’m back with the third installment in my Value Add Series. You can check out the intro here and last month’s post here. Exercise and movement can add much to our lives outside of just our Physical Health. One of the areas that can benefit the most is actually our Social Health.
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Planning and Programming•Strength Training

Simple Mobility Work for Warm Ups

September 10, 2024
Warriors, how many of you are confused by mobility work? This seems to be a bit of a hot topic in fitness lately. Mobility is important, but as most things fitness can get overly complicated really quickly. So, let’s chat about it today!
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Dimensions of Wellness•General Fitness

Value Add Part 2: Occupational Health

August 27, 2024
Hi Warriors, it’s time for the second installment of my Value Add Series. You can check out the intro here and last month’s post here.  I’m tackling how exercise and movement add to areas of our lives besides just our Physical Health. As Mental Health is coming to the forefront, we are starting to see
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Yoga

Practical Ways to Adjust Yoga Asanas

August 13, 2024
Hi Warriors! Being a yoga instructor has a lot of challenges, but being able to accommodate your student’s needs should not be one of them. Unfortunately, we get one body to live our lives in and if we don’t have the lived experience of different bodies sometimes it can be difficult to assume what someone
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Dimensions of Wellness•General Fitness

Value Add Part 1: Environmental Health

July 23, 2024
Hello friends! Back in January I introduced this year’s series on the ways that movement and exercise can add value to many areas of our lives. I’ve mentioned that I didn’t intend to take a four month break, so while it is strange to have the first post in this series happen in July, here
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Uncategorized

Focal Points

July 9, 2024
While I have been quieter here on the blog and on my social media channels the last few months, it has been one sided. I’ve been doing “research” for some upcoming things. And I’ve noticed something. Something that I want to bring to your attention and call out.
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General Fitness•Planning and Programming

Practical Programming

June 25, 2024
Hello Warriors! I know some of you may have missed or skipped my previous post, so I just want to shout out that new posts will still happen Tuesdays but on an every other week basis for the remainder of 2024. This week’s post sort of dovetails with the themes of overwhelm and time pressure
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