Spring: In every Tradition in the world...Rebirth and Transformation

My church message from Joel Osteen this morning, "The only way to tap into the powers of resurrection within you is to believe. There is a power within you that is unstoppable. Don't go thru life intimidated when you are so powerful."

Today is Easter.  Easter...the day that Christ rose from the dead.  He rolled the stone away from the entrance of the tomb where they had laid his lifeless body and he was resurrected from the dead.  In the Spring, nature resurrects herself and rises from the dead.  People come out from out hunkering down for the winter feeling and want to thrive, live and be outside in the beautiful sun!  

It is also the time we shake away the relative darkness of winter and step into the light of Spring: Inspired, hopeful, planning a fun and amazing year!  

I just spent the weekend at an experiential event called "Adventures in Transformation".  This weekend was huge for me in so many ways.  It was huge for all of us who attended in so many ways, and we believe the work we did there ripples out and effects the world, period, because everything and everyone in the world is connected, whether we like it, believe it or not.  It is a scienticifally proven fact that we are all in this system together and energy never gets destroyed, it simply gets recycled.  We all left inspired, with new hope, new possibilities birthed within us...resurrected and reborn from the constricted and hopeless space we had been functioning from and born again into a big and loving space within us.

My presentation there was very much a rebirth:  of me, from me, for me and for my work in this world.  As many of you know,  I was heavily involved with Nia form many, many, many years.  While I still love her very, very much and I have great respect for my background...this weekend physically marked me stepping into my own body of work, "Embodied Confidence" that is a reflection of everything I have done, learned, gone through and been in my life.  It has been many years and lots of blood, sweat and tears coming to be birthed into this world.

I have many offerings that will fit for many different people within EC.  I hope that you will be inspired and moving to move out into your own light and join me sometime!  

Embodied Confidence™

It is impossible to change or heal your body and life simply working in the Emotional, Psychological or Energetic realms.  
It is impossible to change or heal your body and life simply by moving and/or beating up your body in the Physical realm.

How we relate to the Body and Mind is how we relate to life itself.  The degree to which we can touch pain with mercy as well as embrace joy completely...that is the degree to which we can go beyond the old and enter into life wholeHEARTEDLY...We have to work with ALL of us to change and heal!

----Movement is the way of moving who you be out into the world.  You take the energy you discover within and use Movement to bring it into the greater space around you like a ripple manifestation.  When you discover your Personal Power, it effects Everything and Everyone around you.
----Everything that is up for us in our lives (mind, heart, spirit...), Shows up in our bodies.  We develop injuries, compensations, have accidents and weaknesses, etc. that reflect what is going on in our chakra and energetic system.  Our bodies are simply and eloquently our vehicles for how we show up, experience and do our lives, period

Accept and love your biggest Gifts and your biggest Challenges. They make us who we are...BODY, MIND AND SOUL! Embodied Confidence.
 Own it.

The Internal See-Saw Balance of our GIfts and Challenges

The aim in life is to share our gifts, learn from our challenges and to do this as consciously as possible. Your purpose is unique to you, because it is shaped by:

Your soul's qualities
Your personality characteristics
Your life situation

There are no 'hard and fast' explanations for physical imbalances and certainly no one meaning that applies to all people. It is ultimately up to you as an individual to discover how the mind-body connection applies to your unique experience.
With a desire to heal, everyone will be guided on their own path to healing one way or another.

Gifts and challenges
Your greatest gift is also your greatest challenge, because you have come here to master it.  Every gift has to be mastered, like a wild animal that needs to be tamed.
Your gifts and challenges are like a see-saw that needs to be balanced and find its center. Finding this balance means that you understand your gift, what it feels like to use it well and what it feels like to misuse it. Once you find this balance you allow your gifts to flow freely, and you create a positive impact on the world around you.  (journal on gifts, challenges)

Since we are here to share our gifts and learn from our challenges, becoming closer and more familiar with your soul's gifts and challenges starts to give you a very clear sense of purpose and direction.

Soul...
The soul is ultimately responsible for giving the body its life force. In subtle ways, it guides and directs our behavior and actions in the physical form. When the soul chooses to leave the physical body, the body perishes. The soul is driven by wisdom, love and universal service.

Mind...
The next level is the mind, the interactive mechanism between the body and soul. The mind registers and filters emotion (the language of the soul) and registers nerve impulses generated by the body. The degree of communication between the body and mind, and soul and mind depends on your ability to work with your mind to have her work for you and connect them all. When the mind is functioning as intended, it is self-aware, focused and quiet as required. So the mind has two choices: to block out sensation or to listen to it. If the mind is smart, it listens.

Body...
And finally, the body, our outer shell, is a product of both the mind and soul and how it is cared for on a daily basis. The body's magic formula for survival - sleep, diet, environment and exercise - can be used to prolong life or shorten it. You can learn and apply ways to sustain and energize your body - it's your choice.


Just starting, just choosing you, just choosing creating more for yourself is the first step in anything, and gaining confidence in your body is no different!  Dealing with the mental, emotional and spiritual pieces that invariably come up for all of us is the key and the hard work that EveryBody has to deal with when we make the choice for us.

Embodied Confidence: Personal Power Through Movement!

I have created an Amazing, Powerful body of work called Embodied Confidence:  Personal Power Through Movement.  It is the culmination of everything that has happened in my life...my journey, my learning, my Greatest Gift and my Greatest Challenge...and she has been gifted to me in a very powerful way and I am passionate about sharing everything I have learned, incorporated...Embodied...

I have just completed the task of putting it into so many words, whew!  Let me know what you think, how this makes you feel, what questions/comments/feedback you have!  I welcome any and all:

It is impossible to change or heal your body and life simply working in the Emotional, Psychological or Energetic realms.  
It is impossible to change or heal your body and life simply by moving and/or beating up your body in the Physical realm.

How we relate to the Body and Mind is how we relate to life itself.  The degree to which we can touch pain with mercy as well as embrace joy completely...that is the degree to which we can go beyond the old and enter into life wholeHEARTEDLY...We have to work with ALL of us to change and heal!

----Movement is the way of moving who you be out into the world.  You take the energy you discover within and use Movement to bring it into the greater space around you like a ripple manifestation.  When you discover your Personal Power, it effects Everything and Everyone around you.
----Everything that is up for us in our lives (mind, heart, spirit...), Shows up in our bodies.  We develop injuries, compensations, have accidents and weaknesses, etc. that reflect what is going on in our chakra and energetic system.  Our bodies are simply and eloquently our vehicles for how we show up, experience and do our lives, period

Accept and love your biggest Gifts and your biggest Challenges. They make us who we are...BODY, MIND AND SOUL! Embodied Confidence.
 Own it.

The letting go and cleaning up in order to move forward

Whew, what a day!  I'm finally sitting down after a day full of taking down Christmas for 4-5 hours, vacuuming up ALL of the pine needles (which still smelled SO good), running to the store, making myself food for dinner tonight and some for this week, cleaning up the kitchen and unloading the dishwasher.  Whew!  All of that little bitty stuff that takes so long!

I kept my Christmas decorations up for as long as I possibly could without annoying myself because I LOVE Christmas.  The entire holiday season, from before Thanksgiving until New Year's day just makes me happy.  I love the Hope and the Energy of the Season.  I love getting little things for all of my clients and people in my life whom I love.   I love all of the lights up in town squares and downtowns.  I love all of the colors everywhere.  I love the decorations up in my home, stores, everywhere...

So, I prolonged it as long as I could, but now, onward into 2014, which will be a completely different year for me, for many of us, for so many reasons and thank goodness!  2013 was beyond brutal for me in so many ways.

So, I am sitting down to work on the first pieces that I am creating and unrolling in what I am coming to think of as my own body of work, "Embodied Confidence (TM)".  I have a couple of one day playshops (with very different focuses) that will be happening in February (Intro to Embodied Confidence) and May (Moving Your Inner Goddess:  Love your Body.  Love yourSelf.  Love your Life.).  I have a 5 week series starting in March (Moving Your Inner Goddess:  Feel Strong.  Be Strong.  Live Your Strength) that is focused on empowering women to get themselves and their bodies moving in Many different ways.  We will be exploring within a safe and nurturing group environment to start the create the knowing within themselves that they, and their bodies, CAN do it!  Then I will be doing a 2 day retreat tying everything together this summer!  How amazing is that?

I'm also going to be working with a large fortune 500 company and a couple of office complexes to create fitness programs for employees.  I'm incredibly excited about it!

SO, I had to let go of Christmas to move into this year and I am SO happy to be moving into this year.  What about you?  What are you excited about this year?  What magic are you creating in your life?

As you move, Life moves.

What a productive, awesome day!

So far, I have gotten 20 out of 29 things on my to do list done! Woohoo! I expect to be at 23 by the time I go to sleep. I will get the rest of them done tomorrow & Tuesday. Ahhhhhhh. I feel like I am finally getting it all together & things are starting to gel & move in an amazing way in my life.

I have come up with another tag line as well, "Life Moves As u Move.". When we take action, when we shift something in ourselves, when we make a commitment to changing something holding us back, life will cooperate with us. If we do nothing & continue to do nothing, life will respond.

I did not do an email last week because I was cleaning up clutter in my house that just needed to go. Very symbolic. Cleaning clutter out of my house is cleaning clutter out of my life.

Many more big changes in my life for me during the last few months. It is becoming absolutely the norm in my life. I have not really felt ok since Bella got sick. I also did nothing for my business for many months and I am now paying for it, but I am taking action, big action. I have recently partnered with an incredible organization, Achieve Fitness Systems, and I am super excited about where my life and my business will go with them on my team. It is a team/a family of fitness & wellness professionals coming together to offer more than any of us can individually and I get wonderful, affirming, positive coaching from the CEO, which is helping me move past all of my sadness and inertia and start to see & feel possibilities again.

I am embarking on a big, new, exciting speaking and presenting aspect of my business. I am adding many residual streams of income by learning to and getting in the habit of thinking even more outside the box. I will be creating my own Body of Work playing with aspects of Feminine power, Embodiment and Movement. I'm also creating another very powerful Body of Work with an amazing man about Integration & Embodiment of the Yin & Yang-Feminine & Masculine.

In many ways, this is the time of my life with the most change, the most excitement of possibility, the most I've believed and known it is all changing and I have the tools & the support & the knowledge to do it because of the love & support of so many amazing people. In many ways, it is the most terrifying, the most exhausting, the biggest utterly not in control Surrendered time in my life. Dichotomy. Actually very much the Ultimate Balance of Masculine & Feminine.

I will continue to move forward. My body & my spirit will heal, as I continue to take care of myself. I know I am being carried & I know Bella had to leave me for me to have space to create any of this. And...

I can and I will...Watch Me....
My Goodness I am tired, I just need to rest, please take over for me, I know u got this, thank u.

Things I tell clients over and over (and over!)!

The things I find myself telling clients over and over and over!

So I've noticed several things that I find myself saying to my people repeatedly during a personal training session and in general. I decided I should write them down and share them w everyone so I can help even more people to connect their minds and their bodies as well as to change their bodies!

1). Sit back with ur butt first, then bend ur knees-most people sit and do squats with their knees and with bending over only. I teach a specific way of moving that gets people actually engaging and strengthening their glutes rather than just stressing their knees and/or their backs. This is important for SO many things: decreasing back pain & knee pain, strengthening leg muscles so they support knees and backs, having a nice butt, etc!

2). Pull the bottom pointy ends of ur shoulder blades together & down-most people hold a lot of tension in their necks, traps (the muscles running between the neck and the shoulders) & shoulders and tend to hunch forward on top of that. They do everything from the upper upper back, traps and shoulders. I teach people to use and strengthen the muscles in the lower upper back so that their shoulder blades are sitting where they r supposed to be. This takes huge amounts of stress and usually a lot of pain out of those over-used areas! It improves their posture 100%, which in and of itself makes their entire body look different!

3). Navel to Spine-in most people, their Transverse Abdominus doesn't fire properly. This muscle, (the underneath layer of abdominal muscle, which literally supports the entire body from it's center) can only engage with the navel pulling in and down into the lower back, like an ice cream scoop is scooping out the belly. It is very subtle & challenging for most people to learn how to do. I teach people the difference between this and just sucking in their stomach, BIG DIFFERENCE! I have people paying attention to and keeping it engaged throughout their entire workouts. When people do this, it supports their lower back, improves the strength of their entire core, improves low back issues and changes the way their entire body looks!

So those r just 3, but probably the most used phrases that I say in all of my core conditioning classes and with all of my one-on-one fitness, movement & Personal Training clients. Enjoy! Play w them urself and as always, let me know if u have questions, comments or feedback!

Non-Stop and Magical

This week has been non-stop and magical in so many ways: deep & loving women's circle, huge networking event & dinner w one of my besties, expansive healing group, dinner out, possibility charged business meeting with a man who is going to help me get where I am going, much needed massage and wonderful connections with so many wonderful people.

Everything in my life is changed and changing. I can feel it.  The things I was deeply, in the core of my being, worried about, I have let go of.   I know without any doubt that it all IS & that it is all unfolding, period.  Everything I've worked for in every aspect-physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually-is happening & unfolding.

The key here is that I had to get to absolute, complete willingness to lose everything I "have". I am not really in control anyway.  It's all perfect, even if I don't know it.  All I have to do is do my part, be an instrument, allow and know.  All week, I have been remembering that the Angel Card I pulled on New Year's Eve was WILLINGNESS.  It could not have been more true.  I had to go with so many things and events put in front of me.  So many things happened that I would never have wanted or could have had a clue were going to happen, so many things I had to completely release.  After this lesson, this big piece of growth for me, then and only then would I be on the track I was born to be on, whether I knew it or could do it myself without all of the work I've done in every aspect of my life.

We are multi-dimensional beings.  We are the physical, mental, emotion and spiritual.   It is impossible for us to not be, whether we believe it or not.   So own it, be it, be you, be the Big You. Allow, accept, quite fighting yourself.   Once u really and truly do, the payoff is much more than you can imagine and bring about by doing the things you are doing.  Trust me, "Let Go, Let God", on a very profound level, is real.   I see it in so many of my friends and know it within myself.  Namaste dear ones.   Namaste.