CategoriesUncategorizedAn intense combo class where indoor cycling meets strength training. Start with 25 minutes of cycling to get your heart rate up and blood pumping, then move to the floor for 25 minutes of strength training combined with weights, bands, and glides. It’s everything you need in a 50 minute session!
December is here, and we invite you to consider Renewal.
Renew (verb): to restore or replenish
What do you do to restore your vitality? This isn’t about being well, but it certainly contributes to your well being. Renewal practices are like hitting the reset button. Not something you do every day, but reserved for “every now and then”. A cleanse, floating or that book that you read every year.
This month, we’ll offer up a few ideas in the form of workshops: Gut Health, Living Your Mission or Solstice Flow. We’ll also have coupons in some classes (stay tuned!) and ideas on social media – AND, we’d love to hear from you.
How do you hit reset?
Solstice ~ the longest night of the year and afterward, a return to light. Come and honor the evening at Flow Fremont with a sound bath. This practice will begin with a gentle yoga flow encouraging fluidity in the mind and body. We’ll transition into restorative postures accompanied by the resonant sounds of crystal singing bowls.
Friday, December 21st from 6-7:30pm at Flow Fremont with Natalie & Jarred.
Reserve your spot through member portal (coming soon!).
CategoriesEventIf you don’t know your values, how can you expect to live them? Clarifying values is one of the first steps toward living a purposeful life. During this workshop, Ama La Vida Coach, Sara Dawson, will help you find your values and connect them to your purpose.
Sunday, December 16th at 11:15am
Cost: $15
Learn more and register here.
CategoriesEventJoin Flow Fitness in the fight against hunger! Donate funds to our virtual food drive.
Donate $15 or more, bring in your receipt and a friend for free!!!
Is your balance on point? Come and find out at Flow SLU on Wednesday, December 5th from 5:30-7:30pm. Dr. Lydia from Emerald City Spine will be performing quick and easy spinal alignment and reaction time tests.
Come to our “Ride or Die” Cycle class in Fremont on Thursday Nov 29th @6:15pm and bring your best pal! We’ll do a bunch of partner drills on the bike and have fun getting sweaty with our BFFs!
written by, Flow Coach Nigel Bryant
Feeling stressed lately? Like all humans, we go through the ups and downs of life and sometimes our mind gets the best of us. This is something that while can be inhibiting, is totally normal. Especially with regard to exercise. Your mind can make or break your work out.
For me, developing a meditation practice has helped calm my mind and my soul. I aim for twenty minutes in the morning when I get up, and twenty minutes before I go to bed. It has been a calming and satisfying experience, and as our society becomes more technologically advanced, I’d encourage you to embrace a meditation practice as well. With that said, meditation, like exercise, is a process and a journey and will not happen overnight. Furthermore, with regard to exercise, most of my meditation routine comes from using the foam roller. This practice works for me – what routine and technique will work for you?
Three quick tips on finding you own routine and technique to lead to successful meditation are:
Find a quiet place
Keep your phone AWAY from your meditation
Be as STILL AS POSSIBLE.
These three tips in my meditation journey have proven fruitful and necessary. A quiet place gives you the serenity and composure to feel calm and gives your mind, body, and soul a place to relax. Keeping your phone away from your meditation practice will help you avoid those annoying pings and dings that will cause a distraction from your meditation practice. Lastly, and the most important but will most likely be the most difficult is being STILL during meditation. For me this took four weeks to master, as in our technological driven world we are used to being on alert. Taking time to meditate and be still will help you slow your mind and body down from life’s everyday stress and also be a catalyst for less stressful life and kickass workout! Meditation has several benefits that enhance your mood and overall work/life balance.
The benefits of meditation that have been researched and documented:
One last key that I would advise you guys on your meditation journey is to stick to twenty minutes. If you know you have a meeting in the morning that might be stressful, get up twenty minutes early and MEDITATE! If you come home after a long day, take the twenty minutes and MEDITATE! We have all heard the phrase “your body is your temple”. I also subscribe to the notion the your mind is a temple and having a clear, conscious, and focused mind will help you in being the best version of yourself possible. BE WELL!
Success Through Stillness by Russell Simmons and Mindfulness an Eight Programme for a Frantic World are two books I highly recommend for your journey. These two books will help give you the tools and guide you in the right direction in regards to honing meditation and it’s benefits, as I personally believe meditation and exercise go hand in hand.
As we move into November, we shift the focus from Move More to Be Well.
Every day, you make hundreds of decisions, whether you realize it or not, on being well. With each choice, you move toward wellness (eating greens), or further away (sitting for hours on end).
As we move through this month, we invite you to consider your habits. Are they contributing to your health & wellness practice? Because that’s what this is: A practice. Something you repeatedly do, and hopefully, feel better for it. You may not always get it right, but you keep experimenting and find what works for you and your body.
Your practice may include going to the doctor or the dentist regularly, a monthly massage, eating mostly unprocessed foods, moving your body daily and perhaps a little chocolate (because who doesn’t need a little sweetness?!). There are thousands of ways to be well. Explore what works for you this month. The Flow team will provide suggestions, workshops and some tips and tricks that we use – and we’d love to hear from you. This month, try something new – or at the very least, schedule your doctor’s appointments!
What will you do to be well?
