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Happy Halloween Everyone!
Beware of spooky postures creeping up on you! 🎃👻 This Halloween, let’s bring those hunched backs and forward heads back from the dead! Stand tall, stay spooky, and keep that posture from becoming scary...

Spooky Halloween Posture Beware of spooky postures creeping up on you! 🎃👻 This Halloween, let’s bring those hunched backs and forward heads back from the dead! Stand tall, stay spo...

What are your goto tricks for better posture?
What if we shifted our thinking about good posture? Instead of focusing on holding our body in a fixed position, what if we explored how we can help our muscles naturally find better alignment? By giving our muscles some simple imagery and releases, we can achieve posture that feels less forced and more fluid—allowing us to move with greater ease and strength. It’s about working with the body, not against it, for more dynamic and sustainable alignment.

Better Posture What if we shifted our thinking about good posture? Instead of focusing on holding our body in a fixed position, what if we explored how we can help our musc...

Muchas veces en clase veo gente moviendo una pierna por aquí y un brazo por allá. Si encontramos una manera más conectada de movernos lo haremos con más facilidad y tendremos menos chances de lastimarnos. Aquí te comparto un ejercicio somático para ayudar a encontrar esa conexión. Es una manera de practicar movimiento consciente.

Mejorando nuestra manera de movernos. Muchas veces en clase veo gente moviendo una pierna por aquí y un brazo por allá. Si encontramos una manera más conectada de movernos lo haremos con más faci...

Movimiento Consciente

Muchas veces en clase veo gente moviendo una pierna por aquí y un brazo por allá. Si encontramos una manera más conectada de movernos lo haremos con más facilidad y tendremos menos chances de lastimarnos. Aquí te comparto un ejercicio somático para ayudar a encontrar esa conexión. Es una manera de practicar movimiento consciente.


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I'm thrilled to be teaching a special class on July 3rd focused on rejuvenation and restoration. 🌿✨ It's the perfect chance to refresh and recharge your mind, body, and spirit. If you or anyone you know could benefit from this, please spread the word!

I can't wait to see you there! 💖

What helps you find balance and healing?
I had been feeling out of sorts but a few days in nature and great company has helped me rebalance.

Needing some recuperation time! Please reach out to find out more...

Tuesday at 4:30 -5:40 Find your core from inside out. Using balls and bands to find our intrinsic connections so that we move better and don’t unwillingly produce pain in our bodies. Skokie.

Ever catch yourself clenching your jaw during stressful moments or grinding your teeth without even realizing it? I do! Tightness in the jaw is more common than you might think, especially for those of us prone to stress or teeth grinding.

There's a simple, gentle movement that can work wonders in releasing that tension and bringing some much-needed relief. I stumbled upon this gem from a Feldenkrais instructor.

Next time you feel that familiar tightness creeping in, give this gentle jaw release a try!

Jaw Release Tightness in the jaw? It may result from various factors such as stress, anxiety, teeth grinding, poor posture, or TMJ disorders. If you are jaw clenching or...

As we get into March we have an opportunity to look at how our new year has gone so far, what we like about it and what we want to do differently. If you set up some goals you can revisit them and if you haven't done so you could think about them now.
If you are like me you resist setting goals because you might change your mind. The issue with that is that since most of our thoughts are automatic, if we don't take the time to visualize and set goals, we will just create by default. A lot of what we do is because of programming.

Don't live by default! Create Goals. If you are like me you resist setting goals because you might change your mind. The issue with that is that since most of our thoughts are automatic, if we d...

Do you need some Cathartic Release from all the outside pressures and inside thoughts? Unstructured movement can serve as an outlet for processing emotions, releasing tension, and facilitating emotional expression. Expressive dance, shaking, or intuitive movement can all provide a safe space for us to explore and release pent-up emotions, to feel well and build resilience!
Join me in some unstructured movement!

Release with free movement 1 Do you need some Cathartic Release from all the outside pressures and inside thoughts? Unstructured movement can serve as an outlet for processing emotions, ...

Stuck in the chair for too long and in need to regain mobility? Here are some gentle moves that get your spine to move in three-dimensional ways to create more space in the body.

Move with Ease Stuck in the chair for too long and in need to regain mobility? Here are some gentle moves that get your spine to move in three-dimensional ways to create mo...

New Year, Fresh Start
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I have done few New Year sessions helping people create how they want to see things unfolding in this year to come, and I am excited to continue to do so. Sure, there is so much that we can't control, but we can work on our health and well-being and be more alive and present to ourselves and to others.

New Year, Fresh Start Be a catalyst in the way your year is created!

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How often throughout the day you rotate the shoulder outwards. We rotate inwards quite abit when typing, looking at the phone, driving, etc. Besides that, those muscles around the neck and shoulders can get pretty tight because of stress. Before doing some strength exercises to get more opening, try doing some movements to invite a better alignment. You can do this as a break time from the screen...

Take 5 minutes for Better Posture How often throughout the day you rotate the shoulder outwards. We rotate inwards quite abit when typing, looking at the phone, driving, etc. Before doing so...

The New year is here!
There are many things that we might not able to change in this world, but we can work towards our centerdness, health, wellness and harmony to bring in better energy and outcomes to 2024!

Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!
If you are looking for an opportunity to start the New Year with a ritual and some structure to hold what is possible for the year to come, here is a workshop that might interest you!

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“Where Attention goes Energy flows; Where Intention goes Energy flows!”
― James Redfield

There are a lot of similar sayings to this one. We know that it is important to put our attention in the places where we want to see growth and changes. Most of what we do is automatic and if we are not purposely taking time to create what we want, we are creating something that has been part of our programming. Any day is a good day to put our attention where it is important, but when the new year comes, it feels like we have a new opportunity to create. So, let’s take a moment to think about what we liked about how the previous year went and what we want to spend some extra energy in during this new year to come….

New Year Wellness Dimensions “Where Attention goes Energy flows; Where Intention goes Energy flows!”― James RedfieldThere are a lot of similar sayings to this one. We know that it is imp...

The new year is a great opportunity to look at the ways that we have been going through life, and see if our actions are in alignment with our values. We could look at 6 or 8 dimensions of wellness and see which ones we want to focus on the most. The part that is usually challenging for most is the desire to go at it all at once. I love stanford proffesor, B J Fogg's idea of using tiny changes. He calls them tiny habits. You create a very small action that moves you in the right direction and you couple the new habit with something that you are already doing.

How do you want to see this new year to come?

New Year, Fresh Start session in Skokie January 6.
Create your new year with intention!

New Year, Fresh Start Be a catalyst in the way your year is created!

Change the Way you Move and Feel Better

Change the Way You Move and Feel Better! We know about the benefits of exercising for our health and well-being, but have you thought about how movement can affect your responses to life? We know who is coming to us without looking because we all have different ways to move. Some people’s steps are heavy, others seem to go faster, some h...

Get your Core On!

Most of us were not taught how to move, but with the right progressions we can re-engage patterns that are available to us. Why is it so importatnt to access our core intrinsic muscles? A metaphor that I like to use to explain muscle funstioning is the one of a building. The intrinsic muscles are like the foundation of a building, hidden beneath the surface but essential for stability and structural integrity. The Extrin...