CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE: PART THREE

Welcome back. This is part three of a three part series on the question of ethical fitness business ownership and operation during the Coronavirus pandemic. You can read part one here, and part two here, if you haven’t already.  Hi again. Thanks for seeing this thing through and getting to part three. It’s a lot, … Continue reading CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE: PART THREE

CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE: PART TWO

Welcome back. This is part two of a three part series on the question of ethical fitness business ownership and operation during the Coronavirus pandemic. Hey, thanks for stepping back into the work with me. So, some disclaimers to start us off– I am an educator, a parent, a yoga teacher, and a yoga studio … Continue reading CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE: PART TWO

CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE: PART ONE

Dear Fellow Fitness Business Owners, I see you. This is hard.  You worked so hard to build something, maybe even from nothing, maybe not. Maybe you saw a need and had a skill that could fill it. Maybe you decided people agreed that you, specifically you, should fill this need. Or maybe you just wanted … Continue reading CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE: PART ONE

FEEL AGAIN

For my whole life, as long as I can remember, in the entire history of “Michelle Does Exercise,” I’ve been drawn to heat. Fire. Intensity. Sweat. If I ran, I ran as fast and as far and as often as I could. I’d run a 5k, fly somewhere and run four legs of a 200 mile … Continue reading FEEL AGAIN

TALKING BODY

I saw a picture of myself the other day, unfiltered. I didn’t like it at first glance. I looked, well, different than the me I remembered, or at least, the me I wanted to remember. I saw something unalike than the athlete who was exercising two to three times daily, and something that varied from … Continue reading TALKING BODY

ALL THAT GLITTERS

“Oooooh. Shiny. Prettttttttty. I like it. I think I might want to have it”Who: me What: An opportunity, a big, rather unexpected one that’s kind of right up my alley, so to speak. More specifically, the chance to bring many things back into my life that I left behind a year ago- stability, consistency, a regular … Continue reading ALL THAT GLITTERS