Cultivating Organic Fitness Pt. 1: Introduction + Nourishing our Mobility.

Ooh, friend, I cannot wait to explore our next few weeks with you. The new year is here, making it an exciting time to dive into the topic of: fitness. Fitness…. it’s such an interesting word. What do you think of when you think of fitness? What comes to mind for you? When I first met my husband, I was studying exercise science, and he was studying evolutionary biology (both at UNI). I would soon learn that —really— we were both studying fitness, just from two vastly differen

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Embracing spaciousness, silence, stillness, & rest.

Hello, friend! The holidays are upon us, and the end of the year is so very near. This time can be so hectic, noisy, loud, and busy-busy… But what if we could somehow gift ourselves more spaciousness? More silence? More stillness? More…. rest? Does that sound good to you too? This is what we’ll be experimenting with this week, friend. I don’t know about you, but I’ve found myself picking up my phone a LOT lately. It is soooooo easy for me to fill every spare moment or every

Dec 26, 20253 min read

Connecting with our inner light.

Ahhhhh…. last week’s focus was just what I needed. Thank you so much for joining me in letting ourselves get weird(er) . :) As we continue our way closer to the winter solstice (and the days continue to get shorter, and the temps continue to drop), this week, we’re diving into the question of: What can we do to connect with our inner light? We’ll dance & explore things like: • What lights you up? • What is it like to feel lit up? What do you sense/notice in your body? • How d

Dec 7, 20251 min read

Letting ourselves get a little weirder.

Friend, I am sooooooo ridiculously excited for this week’s focus. This week is all about getting a little weirder as we dance. I’ll explain. :) You see, Aya is all about freeing our body (and self), and yet…. sometimes I find myself making my dance look…. well…. normal. I can feel that inhibition. I want to roll around on the floor more, but I don’t want to be quite so different than everyone else. I want to let my body move freely, but I don’t want it to look too weird and

Nov 30, 20257 min read

Radiating gratitude.

Thanks, so much, for another lovely week of dancing, friend! We’ll continue our focus this week on gratitude… but this time, we’ll revisit a practice we explored last year at this same time: radiating gratitude. It’s a practice where we sense our gratitude in the moment, and also practice expressing (and radiating) it outwardly. It’s thanks… giving . We can explore things like: • How do you show, communicate, or express your thanks? • Who could you express your thanks to toda

Nov 24, 20251 min read

Practicing gratitude (via our senses).

Thank you so much for another beautiful week of ease & just being here now last week, friend. November is here, and you know what that means… Yep!! It’s time for coming back to: gratitude. This week and next, we’ll focus on exploring what it’s like to practice gratitude via our senses. We’ll practice looking at (and listening to, tasting, smelling, and touching) the world around us with our gratitude filter activated. The big question: What can we be grateful for ___________

Nov 17, 20251 min read

Ease & just being here now.

Thank you so much for joining me last week for our November self-care reset. This week, we’ll revisit our monthly integration focus of ease & just being here now. Ahhhhh….. I always love coming back to this focus again and again. I hope it feels like great timing for you too. This focus always includes 2 parts: 1) Ease We’ll dance with ease. Ease in our shoulders. Ease in our hips. Ease in our spine. We’ll simply dance and connect with the sensation of ease. Nothing to prove…

Nov 9, 20251 min read

November self-care reset.

Whoosh… what a wild ride life is. Friend, these past four months have been a blur. Back in July, we embarked on the start of a new chapter for our family. We began searching for a new home (still here in Waterloo), and found ourselves a really lovely house that is a wonderful fit for us. We then quickly began the process of purchasing, renovating, and moving into our new home, and listing our old home for sale, etc., etc. Throughout that time, we also continued our work, star

Nov 1, 20254 min read