Patti Abel Empowering Fierce Independent

Pop-up Pilates Mat Class at the studio this week. Who's interested? Wednesday 5:30pm or Friday 10am

To go along with Nervous System Integrated Facilitator (NSIF) movement I completed my training in Safe & Sound Protocol. These 2 together make a wonderful pair for helping us Regulate our Nervous System so you are able to improve your stress response.

Keep a watch new programs opening soon for small group and individual practice.

What is Safe and Sound Protocol?
a powerful innovative listening therapy designed to reduce hearing sensitivity and help regulate the nervous system, so you can better connect with yourself, others and the world around you.

The music of SSP has been specially filtered to highlight frequencies of sound that typically make us feel safe.

As humans we need social connection. Subconsciously, our nervous system is always looking for cues of safety from other people through things like body language, facial expression or tone of voice. ​

But if you have a harder time interpreting these cues of safety due to past experiences or the way you take in information, your brain and body can misinterpret these cues, limiting your ability to connect in a meaningful way.

Through the specially filtered music, the SSP sends cues of safety to your nervous system, building the foundation for awareness, embodiment and resilience.

SSP coupled with NSIF will expand your resilience to be fiercely independent. Stress can hold is in patterns of immobility and inability to move forward in our day. Through NSIF you begin to learn through your body cues and movement how to identify your stress states and how to easefully mobilize yourself out of debilitating stress into fluid easeful calm. For many of us we've maneuvered through life for so long we don't recognize these subtle cues until they become debilitating body pain, chronic illness, anxiety or removal from community.

Curious to learn more of my upcoming programs. Shot me a DM. Programs release this Month and begin in June. Due to the amount of time I like to share with each individual for your best results, Spaces will be limited. In person and virtual options will be available

Super Excited new location opening mid-late March

Thanks Monica at for our temporary window sign.

Have these lovelies coming to the studio soon. So relaxing, felt a shift in my nervous system as soon as I settled in and placed them. The weight and aroma is perfect.

Be on the lookout for a Healthy Nervous System workshop with those heart eye pillows coming soon.

If you would like to join into this class let me know below and I’ll message with details

Ready for tonight’s FIMC weekly Online movement class. This months prop is the foam roller.
Tonight we will be release tight tense muscles along with fun slightly challenging subtle core work.
Have a foam roller at home and Want to join us? Give me a 👍 and I’ll send you registration link.

Today in the Pilates Journey to Wellness class we started into the Principle of Centering. So we began with the feet. To be centered in standing we need a sting yet flexible base. Free of tension - with mobile bones and joints - the ability to feel the ground and any changes in surface - with the flexibility and strength to spring and recoil
As one of our Mentors Marie Jose’ would say “what is below so is above” soo ok if our feet are tight - rigid - weak - immobile it moves up the chain
Today we began the work of our Core from the floor

How do you honor yourself regularly with self care and healthful movement? Do you make this regular time non negotiable and sacred? For many of us we struggle with the ability to pour into ourselves. Do you find yourself canceling or pushing to the side time for yourself. That time to go out for a walk, stretch, move, get outside, breath whatever helps you recharge and reset. How many times during the week do you find yourself putting this time off to stay in something that is causing stress and disregulation. Honor yourself this week by saying “Yes” to you and “No” to that which does not serve and depletes you.
As a wise person once told me “You cannot pour from an empty cup” so if we want to be our best selves we must honor ourselves with moments of non negotiable time.
Have a hard time shutting the world and too do@list out. Trying listening to music, nature, pray, breath, movement whatever is positive and helps you take care of you

May you Bless yourself this week as much as you Bless others.

The Overball oh how we love you! Receive an overball last months Prop of the month in classes. Which means when you enroll there will be recorded classes to roll into.

When you enroll in Fiercely Independent Movement Collective. Also you will receive $15 off monthly membership. Reg. $75 now $60 for the next 5 days. A wonderful way to move through the remainder of the holiday season and kick start your New Year.

This is a great week to join as next week we have 2 class options. Wednesday 7:30pm and Friday 5:30pm (Nervous System Integrated Movement for Stress relief). Coming in the New Year we'll be adding a daytime class Wednesday 9am.

This prop may seem hohum but it is everything but. Many of our clients find it a supportive yet challenging item for class, yet also a wonderful travel companion. It can be totally deflated and put into your overnight bag. Us it to site on to release the hips and low back, support for the low back, support and movement for the head and neck just to name a few. It can create fun balance challenge, awareness to misalignment, fun way to move the pelvis creating balance challenge and deep core work. Back support, release and strengthening. This little squishy wonder is a powerhouse.

I LOVE Christmas! For the next 5 days I'll be giving away a Prop when you enroll in Fiercely Independent Movement Collective. Also you will receive $15 off monthly membership. Reg. $75 now $60 for the next 5 days. A wonderful way to move through the remainder of the holiday season and kick start your New Year.

This is a great week to join as next week we have 2 class options. Wednesday 7:30pm and Friday 5:30pm (Nervous System Integrated Movement for Stress relief). Coming in the New Year we'll be adding a daytime class Wednesday 9am.

Today's giveaway: The Pilates Circle, Magic Circle or AKA Ring of Fire. This is a wonderful prop for not only strengthening (I consider it the original Thigh master) Also great for help with deep stretches. You will definitely want this in your arsenal and will be our prop of the Month come January.

Link in the comments for enrollment.

What does BEing in Balance mean to you??

Wednesday evenings are one of my Favs. That is when our Fiercely Independent Movement Collective group meets. I guide a movement practice and then we finish with community time.
I am so Grateful for the time each week we get to share space, chats and laughs together.

Beyond offering a community of movement and strategies to cultivate fierce independence. I desired to create a safe joyful
space for women nurture connections together

Weekly Class tonight 7:30pm Concentration: Digestion and Stress Release
Who's Joining us?

Love our Fiercely independent movement collective ladies. Enjoy our Nervous System
Class this evening and especially our chats after always love listening and laughing with you all ❤️

Enjoy Holiday Savings Early as we open up Founding Membership again this week only.

Yes!!! With the Holidays in sight you may already be feeling the Stress and Overwhelm of the season. Support yourself with the Fiercely Independent Movement Collective. Enjoy movement and nervous system integration that will

~ Stretch and Release your tired tense body

~ Nervous System strategies to diminish Stress and give you the tools to move in and out of stressful times with greater ease so you don't feel depleted and exhausted.

~ Intentional core strengthening to not only tone but boost inner energy and power.

These are some of the biggest reasons I created the Fiercely Independent movement community to help give you tools to boost your wellness integrating my Loves of Pilates, Movement Education, Nervous System Integration and Aromatics.

I would love to have you Join me and fellow members weekly for empowered movement classes — monthly Stress relieving Nervous System Session – deep mindset experiences to heighten your Awareness to habitual Stress and Negative thought patterns that Create Pain and Debilitating Tension in the Body ,along with numbing our ability to THINK CLEARLY and Focus. Learn ways to enhance your practice with aromatics to calm, relax, reset or energize. You will learn to feel MORE CALM, MORE PRESENT, STRONGER and MORE EMPOWERED both in your Physical and Emotional Well-being.

If you desire to be in a community of Ladies striving for Positivity and an Active less Stressful Lifestyle! Then Jump in and Join us. Whether to add activity to your week or enhance your current routine, this Collective will propel your overall health and well-being. You will begin noticing your body feeling , looking and moving more Youthful with the Wisdom of your years.

For this week only I'm reopening our founders membership. Enroll soon (link in comments) as we have 2 Live classes this week. Our regular Wednesday movement class and our once a month Friday Nervous System integration to relieve Stress.

** Reminder all classes are recorded if there is ever a time you can't make one in person **

Reminder this month we’ll be integrating the overball into our practice. If local we have them available at our studio and if distance there is a link in the course under Introduction to props

Last weeks class explored Happy Healthy Hips
With release + stretch + strengthening

I have always felt there is a reason for everything we experience in our life. Our lives prepare us for future events and more importantly, teach us ways we can help others as they traverse similar peaks and valleys. My early life was full of injuries from running that left me with pain and significant imbalances in my body. Years in the corporate world filled with stress, lots of sitting, and long drives resulted in back pain and numbness down my legs. Experiencing one of my grandparents become immobile, needing help from a family member to do every daily activity, bound to a chair with no independence and no independent movement. Seeing this, I was determined to never let the same thing happen to me…unless it was completely out of my control. I can now identify that workplace tension, office place drama, sitting hu**ed over for hours and not having the tools to reduce stress wreaked the most havoc on my body and overall well being. I had always been active but also a member of the “no pain no gain” club. Good grief, what the heck was I thinking? I now know that that mentality alone was responsible for so many imbalances, major nervous system dysregulation and all kinds of dis-ease that eventually turned into immense daily pain. My first awakening to change was finding Pilates. Of all the exercises I had done over the years Pilates helped me make the deep structural changes I was most in need of: That numbness and pain down my leg disappeared within the first two weeks; my posture improved and I found what I was learning in the studio went with me into everyday life; when stressed I would look to my breath along with a heightened sense of bad body mechanics.

A number of years later I discovered how aromatherapy could help me with relaxation, alertness, clarity and even body pain due to how stress creates tension and thus Pain. Yet, there was still something missing until learning Nervous System Integrated movement, I was then able to identify causes of stress and my body's warning signs, then apply specific breath and movements to help myself regulate creating calm resilience and diminishing the debilitating effects of tension and paralyzation of thought.
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Being able to use my own life experiences and partnering with others to support them on their journey is one of the most rewarding and humbling gifts I’ve ever received. I LOVE teaching others how to use movement and Nervous System Integration (NSI) to move beyond the roadblocks life throws, and discover that they can take control of their state of well being and optimize how it affects the results they are able to achieve.

By harnessing NSI we learn to identify the causes of stress and the body's warning signs. This allows us to regulate ourselves and create calm resilience diminishing the debilitating effect of tension and paralyzation of thought.

With the enhancement of the NS we can then create deeper wells of nourishing, life altering movement, enabling our ability to make deep structural changes that improve balance and overall strength. YOU are your own first-person expert of your body and how it moves and thrives. YOU have the capacity to remove the barriers to a healthy body, whether from a life of injury or simply from age, and to do so with grace and ease. And I’m here to guide you on the journey to that potential.

WHAT I Do…

You can call me an educator or instructor but I feel most truly like a partner, a listener and encourager of your independence. I am a motivator and facilitator of your best self. I have always believed you can’t ask others to do things you can’t do yourself.

My purpose is to walk alongside my students and inspire a sense of empowered independence. As you learn the ability to tune in and access your body and its state of being you create safe, easeful freeing movement. With heightened body awareness, and optimized healthy balanced movement you’ll find deeper wells of strength and flexibility, both in body and mind, that make YOU your biggest heroine and me your faithful guide.

Members of FIMC Tonight's focus Happy Healthy Hips
See you at 7:30pm EST
Props for tonight: Mat, Massage ball, towel and/or strap