The Stand up sit down test can be predictive of longevity. This video shows you how to do it and see where your muscle strength, flexibility and balance are currently. If you had trouble doing this test, let it motivate you to work on your muscle strength, flexibility and balance skills so you can remain healthy, vital and independent into your later years.

Sometimes you just don’t feel positive and it can start to wear you down and create fatigue and restlessness. Here are 4 things you can do to pull yourself out of the slump. These all work but you have to put them into action. Take them one at a time and implement them into your day and watch things turn around.

Overcome Emotional Overeating in 4 Easy Steps Do you feel like you have a never-ending battle with the scale? The cause of your weight gain might be emotional overeating. What is emotional overeating? Emotional overeating is a complex topic, but it has essential elements that are easy to recognize. Emotional overeating is defined as disordered eating that is characterized by the compulsion to eat even if you're full. It tends to be a response to negative emotions or thoughts. It's also seen as a coping strategy for those who are under stress or who have suffered abuse. Food often provides comfort for emotional eaters. But the comfort is only temporary! Emotional overeating can sabotage your diet and weight-loss goals. It can also negatively affect your health. Luckily, there are easy steps you can take today to stop emotional overeating!

Looking for exercises that tighten your stomach? This simple,powerful breathing technique will tighten your stomach and all the muscles in your torso while strengthening your whole core. Use it all through the day. I show you how to do it sitting in a chair. Yes you can tighten your stomach while sitting in a chair. GREAT for beginners.

Most of us want to learn how to relax your mind and body. To relax the muscles, we need more than just deep breathing.

The slow, gentle movements in Gentle Somatic Yoga are the key to relaxing your body and mind. The moves train the brain to relax muscles and keep them relaxed. The deep breathing and slow movements relax the mind. This is the way to get long term relaxation in body and mind.

If you’ve been sitting a lot lately, most likely you have tight hip flexors. These are the muscles that allow you to lift your legs. They attach to the top of your thighs and the back of the spine. The somatic release I share in this video to loosen hip flexors is the best hip flexor release I’ve found. Somatic releases work at root cause which is…the BRAIN! The brain controls your muscles. When you repeat poor movement habits, the brain can “lose” control over those muscles and it won’t allow them to go back to a relaxed state. This is called Sensory Motor Amnesia.

Somatic releases work to give control back to the brain

Looking to lose weight? Adding an essential amino acid supplement to assist your weight loss can be extremely helpful. But getting the best essential amino acid supplement is critical. Perfect Aminos by BodyHealth is my #1 favorite. I’ve been using it for several years and would never be without it. It helps me build and maintain muscle mass, burn fat,maintain healthy skin, hair and nails, balance blood sugar and reduces cravings.

T-Tapp plies are in all the standing T-Tapp workouts. There are different ways of doing them depending on the workout. This can cause confusion. In this video/blog I share the options and when and how to do them. Personalize your T-Tapp workout with these options

Looking for a fun toning class you can do in just 38 minutes that delivers great results and let’s you feel wonderful in your body?

This 38 minute toning class for baby boomer women just like you will leave your feeling stretched, tight and toned. I combine moves from T-Tapp and my Original Barre classes to give you everything your body needs.

Is Gentle Somatic Yoga right for you?

If you aren’t comfortable in your body, feeling tension, pain and stiffness, this class is custom designed for YOU.

Our human body was not designed for our sedentary lifestyle. When we are stressed out, sitting all the time, typing, texting...we end up in body positions that create poor posture and tight, contracted muscles. Then we think if we just STRETCH, that will take care of the problem.

But stretching, while it might feel good at the moment, doesn’t take care of the problem. As a matter of fact, it’s been shown to actually create tighter muscles due to our stretch reflex which is designed to stop us from over stretching. It’s like putting on the gas and the brake at the same time.

Gentle Somatic Yoga doesn’t stretch the muscles. Instead, we work at the root cause of the issues which is…the BRAIN!

How to do T-Tapp Jazz Twist. This is one of my favorite T-Tapp moves because it works every part of the body and gives you a wonderful rotation of your spine. Spine rotations are so healthy for your spine. It can help with gaining greater flexibility, move synovial fluid, pump your lymph system, cinch in your torso and help you feel more youthful.

Are your hips super tight from all the sitting you've been doing? In this video I show you how to release your hips. It's NOT a stretch. It's actually a RELEASE. This Gentle Somatic Yoga flow is a "magic move" because you can absolutely feel the difference when you do it.