Ooh, friend. I think this focus is going to feel so good! This week as we dance, we’ll simply tune into our body and explore what it’s like to play with circles, spirals, twists, and rotation as we move. We’ll experiment with how it feels to reach, flow, stretch, and wiggle in ways to help keep our joints, muscles, and fascia all healthy, free, functioning well, and feeling really great. • We’ll spiral our arm bones & feed our shoulder joints nourishing circles… • We’ll gift

Friend, I’m so excited to dance this focus with you. But first, a little story… It was the summer before my senior year at UNI, and I was working in the weight room. My job was to clean the equipment, and scan student IDs. At the time, I loved lifting weights and talking about lifting weights, so I was right at home. One day, a young man came in, walked over to a rack, set a bar on his shoulders, and proceeded to do something totally crazy: he started doing lunges in all so

Welcome to Part 7 of our series on Cultivating Organic Fitness ! Well, friend, this past week was interesting. In 2 different classes, we had some sounds beyond our control that required a bit of… flexibility . :) 1) On Monday, a smoke detector located on a very high ceiling above us chirped very loudly approximately every 60 seconds… 2) On Wednesday night, at the start of Zoom class, my microphone was accompanied by a loud buzz that I couldn’t find the source of… Both sound

(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 tog

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

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

Hello, beautiful soul! I'm so looking forward to this week, friend. We're going to experiment with one of my all-time faaaaavorite (and...