Conversations: Within Our Body & Mind This past weekend I attended a Fitness Leadership Conference with the YMCA Calgary. It was nice to be immersed in a learning mindset for a weekend! Throughout the various 1.5hr sessions I attended I kept coming back to the...
The Rise & Fall The sunrises in Alberta are, by far, the best I have ever seen. I love to rise with the sun, for energetic reasons, but the morning views here take my breath away. Pink skies, hints of orange as the darkness slowly fades; I send photos to my family...
Confidence, finding the belief in ourselves. When we lack it, we can feel shaken in our own bodies and minds. In my experience, confidence doesn’t just appear. It grows in small increments proportional to the small actions taken when we slowly prove to ourselves that...
Angles and Perspectives I’m just going to come out with it this week. I was standing in the mirror at the end of last week doing that thing we all do. You know! When we look at our physical bodies and pick apart all the imperfections – I know you do it as well! The...
Time Under Tension In recent weeks I have been reading, listening, searching for more information on “Time Under Tension” in regard to our physical bodies. I’ve been a regular in the weight room for many years. Was there a hiatus, absolutely! There was a period of my...
Being Open As we change the seasons there is a lot of talk about the changes that come, the letting go, the need to slow down, find rest, etc. With the energy of summer ending, I love how the Fall offers us relief and a swing in tempo. This week I have been prompted...
Finding Your Flow At times it may seem like our lives feel disjointed, things are not moving smoothly, that there is no natural flow to our days, weeks, and months. Overtime, this feeling can leave us feeling unsettled, as if life is ‘rough around the edges’. On the...
Relief A feeling of reassurance and/or relaxation. How often have you said the phrase “well that’s a relief” and as you do you can feel as if a weight is lifted from you. You may feel lighter or like tension begins to release from your body. Often times, we are not...
Today I’ve had to share in the lesson of letting go. Not allowing myself to get caught up in the attachment of having to be perfect and suffering as a result. That’s why today, our Yoga Inspiration is short and sweet. Are you holding on to something that is causing...
If we looked back through our lives, we could find times when we felt we reached a “peak”. Those times when we felt most accomplished in our career, a sport, our relationship, our health. But in my experience, when I look back at times, I believe I peaked, it wasn’t...
Tada – Mountain, Asana – Pose. Our Tadasana teaches us to stand firmly, feet planted into the earth, while we have the inverse action of standing tall, perhaps bringing clarity and enlightenment as the energy flows up through the body. This past week I had the...
Changing Direction Our path in life is never linear. Consider a time when you felt your life was moving in a straight line and then you find yourself at a crossroads and make the decision to change direction. You decide to take the new job, study something you love,...