How to use your Heart-Rate to gauge Exercise Intensity

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Ok dig out your calculator, a piece of paper and a pencil! Time to do some math to figure out how to use your heart rate to gauge exercise intensity: Step #1- Find your maximum heart rate. 220 – (your age)= Your maximum Heart Rate Example: If you’re 30 years old your maximum heart rate [...]

Feldenkrais- The Key to Unlocking a Better Yoga Experience

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While yoga poses create awareness, they can become habitual in the way they are practiced. Without realizing it, many are using more effort than is needed  which can lead to neck pain, back pain, during their yoga practice, making it a much more difficult and potentially painful experience. The gentle, simple, inquisitive process of an [...]

Move From Muscle Pain to Flexibility with ATM lessons

What can you expect if you come to an Awareness Through Movement® Class?   ATM ® is a  group lesson in a casual, relaxed setting. They can be done lying or sitting on the floor, sitting on a chair or in standing. The overall goal is to make sure the student is as comfortable and relaxed as possible. [...]

Nora’s Story of Feldenkrais

Feldenkrais. I admit, I had never even heard the word, nor did I have any idea, WHO or WHAT it was prior to my sister, Nancy’s experience. Nancy was involved in a serious motorcycle accident, that resulted in a “below- the-knee” amputation several years ago. In the course of her rehab she needed to learn [...]