The Dance of Breath -- Exploring Cardiorespiratory Fitness

Welcome to Part 4 of our Cultivating Organic Fitness series! Ahhhh, last week’s focus on ease was just what my heart & soul (and brain—lol) were needing. I always love coming back “home” to ease. That said—-afterward, I also lovvvvvvve diving into our next challenge/exploration. This week, we’re gonna continue our series on Cultivating Organic Fitness with an exploration into: Cardiorespiratory Fitness. What do I mean by cardiorespiratory fitness (sometimes referred to as 'ca

Feb 86 min read

Ease & just being here now.

It’s time for an EASE week, friend... We’ve been focusing pretty intensely on sensing mobility, stability, and the interplay of the two these past few weeks, so this week we’re going to give our brains a bit of a rest. This is a focus we come back to often, and it always involves 2 parts... Part 1: Ease We’ll dance (and move as vigorously as we’d like) while inviting ease into our body. Easy does it… Part 2: Being Here Now We’ll also just be here now. As we dance, we’ll tune

Feb 11 min read

Roots & Wings: the dynamic balance of stability and mobility.

Beautiful photo thanks to Cat McCombs. Welcome to Part 3 of our Cultivating Organic Fitness series ! Hello beautiful soul! Ahhhhh, last week’s focus on stability felt sooooooo…….. well….. stabilizing.  Thank you for joining me. After diving deeply into stability & mobility individually these past two weeks, this week we’ll focus on noticing how they work together as a dynamic team. We’ll root deeply with that grounded, steady inner anchor of stability. We’ll pause. We’ll slow

Jan 253 min read

Building our stability.

(Part 2 of our Cultivating Organic Fitness series) Ooh friend, I loved our exploration of mobility last week. This week, we’re gonna continue our special series of Cultivating Organic Fitness with a deep-dive into stability. Whereas mobility has to do with our move-ability, stability has to do with our stay-ability. It’s our ability to stay put, or keep one body part put, for example. A healthy, happy body has a nice balance of both mobility and stability, and they work toge

Jan 184 min read

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

Jan 116 min read

Dancing into the New Year with ease & presence.

January’s here…. and, friend, we’re just gonna eeeeeeeease on into it. We’ll move. We’ll dance. We’ll sing. We’ll play. We’ll get a great workout… Yes… But alllllll with… ease . As we dance and sense our body, we’ll simply invite ease into our dance. Ease in our shoulder joints. Ease in our face. Ease in our lower back. Ease in our toes. Ease in our hips. Ease anywhere and everywhere. With nothing to prove (and also no need to hold back), we’ll dance as big (and as dynamicall

Jan 41 min read

Saying farewell to 2025, and hello to 2026.

Wow, friend—- can you believe another year has passed? What a year it has been! Together, so far in 2025, we have: Danced 271 delicious dances. Had a glorious photo & videoshoot thanks to Cat, Jon, and Rowan. Enjoyed an incredible 3rd Perseidsfest. Raised $856.96 for the food bank with our fundraiser Zoom dance. Raised $525 for House of Hope with another beauuuuutiful Sunset Aya in the Orchard. Enjoyed our 1st Aya & Somatic Meditation in the gardens. And met so many wonderful

Dec 28, 20254 min read

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