Take A Balance Break

Continue to ease into fall...Take A Balance Break with me this week. Begin your day in ease and calm, your body's preferred place.

M-F 8:00amET
LIVE and by recording on YouTube
Link in bio.

Public offerings this week; practice with me:

Th 5:30-6:45pmET Breathwork Meditation
Th 7:00-7:30pmET Sound Sleep
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M-F 8:00amET Morning Pranayama
YouTube link in bio.

Join me each morning LIVE or via recording for a dose of breathing and meditation. Whether you begin your day at 8:00amET with a session of calm or allow yourself a mid-day break, these 15-20 min sessions of mindful breathing will help rewire your neurology, change your reactions, enhance resilience, and increase your well-being.

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You've heard all the words:

Now is the time to stop and do it. Practice. And practice some more. C'mon, you know you're trainable (remember that 5k or that Ironman or that golf game that you improved?)

LIVE each weekday morning at 8:00amET (YouTube link in bio and https://lisajamison.campsite.bio/)

If you’re anything like me...
..I have to be diligent with my self care this time of year. My mental health. My rest. My ability to be social.

You see, even though the lights and the packages and the candles and the gatherings all say “Joy is here!”...
...my mind and body say differently. It can be easy to dwell on the shortening of the days and hours of darkness.

I hope you will consider joining me for 30 mins on Friday. We will honor the dark season of the year, and the dark season within us.

LIVE on YouTube/Take a Balance Break or DM me for Zoom details.

Join me this Thursday for the deep work, Breathwork Meditation. People often say they can't meditate. I say you haven't tried the form that works for you...the one that gets you into the "state" of meditation. This is the best way I know, and if you're practiced in other forms, you'll be surprised just how "deep" you will go!

5:30 pmET, Thu 12/10. $20 for live class and/or the recording (available for 72 hours after the session).

Link on the websites http://ow.ly/1OPP50CEdRG.

Take a breather. Catch your breath. Take A Balance Break. And get it done first thing in the morning so you'll be well practiced when the stresses of the day arise!

8:00amET, 15-20 mins of resilience and calm.

Join live on YouTube (Take A Balance Break) http://ow.ly/YdF150CE1JT or via Zoom (link on website).

My COVID has passed, and I'm back in action!!

My bout with the virus did NOT hit me in the lungs, like it has for so many people. Although I was not offering breathwork sessions while ill, I was still able to keep with a daily practice.

Please join me each weekday morning at 8:00am for 15-20 mins of breathing to build resilience. Our bodies will continue to be stressed. Learning to respond in a healthy fashion and return to a baseline of "normalcy" quickly all comes with training.

Join me live on YouTube (Take A Balance Break) or via Zoom link on the websites.

Move through autumn with peace and calm. Practice skills that can be utilized throughout the day; build your resilience.

Join me each weekday morning, 8:00amET for 15-20 mins of lesson and practice or simple breathing patterns.

Links to Zoom on websites. YouTube Live at Take A Balance Break.

Join me for 15-20 mins each weekday morning, 8:00amET . Check-in with your body and breath. Train for the calm. Be healthier!

Take a balance break with me each morning at 8:00amET. Practices for calm, resilience, wellbeing, and peace. Live via Zoom/link on website OR live on YouTube at Take A Balance Break.

Morning Breathwork...a regular practice of anything is training; your response to training is adaptation. If you regularly practice a breathing in a pattern of stress, you'll become great at it; it will become your "go-to".

If you practice differently, you'll become different.

Join me each weekday morning at 8:00amET for 15-20 mins of practices that will invite, welcome, and allow a calmer "you".

Join via Zoom on the websites.
Join via YouTube Live (or later in your day!). YouTube A Balance Break.

The practice of calm breathing works...full delivery of gases to the lungs, the relaxation/parasympathetic response, resilience, improved HRV...increases health and well-being.

Please join me each morning at 8:00amET for 15-20 mins of focuses breathing. Live via Zoom; link on websites. Live on YouTube (Take A Balance Break).

Check in. Be well.

Breathwork, the manipulation of your own breathing pattern, has been utilized by many cultures to access a deep state of quiet and calm; meditation. Once in this state your mind (your frontal lobe) seems less chatty and controlling, so you are able to feel and "hear" what else is going on in your body. Holding stress? Old wounds need healing? Carrying a burden? This can all be FELT in your body. Hold still. Breath. See what happens.

Come for the altered state. Stay for the healing.

This Wednesday, Oct 8 at 5:30pm. Via Zoom or recorded for later use. $20 payable at http://ow.ly/bWTj50BII5d

Invitation to calm...join me each weekday morning at 8:00amET for 15-20 mins of breathing. Zoom link on website, or YouTube. http://ow.ly/JDUo50BIyso

My Yin and Restorative Yoga Teacher Training could use your help! We need "students" in need of mobility and flexibility. You'll get lots of attention as we examine and evaluate...all while you enjoy calm, restoration, and connective tissue change. I have four blocks to fill. Reply here, message, call, text...thank you!

Evening Restoration is back! Join me Wednesday, Sept 30 at 7:00pmET. This 60 min practice will include soothing sounds, restorative spine and hip movements, and the stillness and long lasting flexibility changes of Yin.

Join me live or recorded via YouTube http://ow.ly/Blee50BCpAO

Join me live via Zoom http://ow.ly/gxUI50BCpAT

"Altered state" breathing allows you to get into a non-normal (for you...) state of consciousness. Once in this state, your mind will quiet (you know, that frontal lobe brain that keeps talking to you and running your day?) and you will "feel" different. And you'll feel differently. Your attention goes to other parts of your body. Perhaps you'll spend time feeling something in your physical body, perhaps in your emotions.

And maybe, just maybe, you will learn something about yourself.

Come for the altered state. Stay for the healing.

More information on the websites.
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Begin your day with calm. Start with with basics. Continue to train each day. Just 15-20 each weekday morning.

Harry Smith was perhaps one of the greatest men with whom I never spent much time.

In 1990 I was contemplating a move to Tampa. It may have been a bit of a whim, so I got on the phone and started reaching out to people. I didn't know South Tampa from North Tampa, old school from contemporary, training facilities from fitness centers. I just needed information. Harry was very willing to give that. And he offered a lot of opinion along the way. He even offered to pick me up at the airport, show me around, and find me a place to stay if I came for a visit.

As a 20-something woman who did not know a soul in Tampa, I had no way of determining the creepiness factor from "the old guy". I erred on the side of caution and did not take him up on the offer.

When I moved to Tampa I stopped by one day. Choosing new, bright lights, and fancy outfits over used, chipped, and dusty, Harry's gym was not where I landed. Yet I enjoyed sitting there chatting with him. His space, his stories, the aroma, and the ambiance smacked of the places I began a career in "fitness". Back before women and girls were really allowed in the places. Back when they were telling us we really shouldn't be doing that kind of work (back when we had jiggly belts and rollers and silly stuff).

His place was 1970's to me and I need a big move into a new decade.

Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have done anything differently; I still would err on the side of safety. That said, I have regretted and will continue to miss the time I did not give to this old-school gentleman.

Tampa fitness enthusiasts remember beloved gym owner Harry Smith The wrestler and fitness guru died at 95 at Tampa’s Tahitian Inn on Saturday night.

Summer is "officially" over, and it's time to get back to our regular schedules. What does that mean in 2020? Maybe it's time to get back to our new and improved schedule of care.

Breathwork Meditation allows you a session of conscious deliberate deep breathing. A bit of "out with the old and in with the new". It allows you to calm not only your body but also the chatter in your mind (you know...the chatter that won't stop, the chatter that keeps telling you you're something other than you desire, the chatter that seems to rule the show).

Take a time out. Let your body and your mind experience something...different.

Until it is safe to meet again as a group, we will continue the sessions virtually.

Come for the altered state. Stay for the healing.

Link on website/in bio.

Please join me for a daily dose of conscious breathing. All you need is 15 minutes, LIVE or recorded for use at your convenience.

Morning wake-up to calm. Fifteen minutes to set your day in motion...with calm.

Here's how the week began...you'll actually get a view of Bar Harbor from the hill!

Join me each weekday at 8:00amET for Morning Pranayama. Available on Zoom or via YouTube.

Morning Pranayama 8/24/20 Calm...maintain the calm with the "hum". Humming is always a practice of exhaling through the nose. To add to the parasympathetic response/training, today we...

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Take A Balance Break

Going live at 7:00ET for 15 mins of calm and restoration. See link in bio. See you on Zoom!!