community doing wonderful things making a change and making a difference in other people's lives today i have a guest carol carol when she gave birth to her daughter she raised here and fast forwarding to the point where i was twenty eight years old and i had my daughter she's now fourteen years old and there was a moment around her second year where i had gained a tremendous amount of weight and i wasn't getting joy out of life i wasn't happy motherhood is its own reward alan and i believe that in terms of motherhood i was up for the challenge but what i began to notice was that my own personal happiness and my own personal well being in health was suffering you know are you know loving motherhood in accepting all of us responsibilities but i once heard that you know we need to have a full cup and water to share what is in the cup with others you know began to soul search because i knew on a physical level that i didn't feel well you know joints were hurting and it was difficult for me to do some of the things that it takes you know being a mom of a two year old of a toddler but what really began to speak to me was the end like mice my inner self you know the eternal self that says we're not we're not doing we're not on the right path we're not doing something is not going right so those kind of in a voice says we're telling you yes it has to be something different yes in your life yeah i do get more joy out of it yes because i believe that that's what we're all here for we all have a purpose to serve to humanity and instead of doing what we believe is required we all do have responsibility how about if we felt followed our heart you know the us to wellness yes and what is in your heart is your purpose whatever whatever you know secret  desires you have that make you happy are what we should pursue and wife and i believe that if we are whole individual we will be well we will be happy i couldn't be more on that and  the idea comes to mind the first thing is joined a gym right by carrot joining a gym yes joining the gym and creating a regimen of a good exercise absolutely i think happiness is one of the best mattias we have good health and you cannot be happy without good health and here's what my life experience as a fitness instructor and a wellness coach has taught me that every body is different and if joining a gym is what you love and what motivates you to get up in the morning go then you should do that but if walk taking a walk by the river or meeting up with friends and you know going bike riding is what makes you happy you have to tap into your motivating force and that may not necessarily be what everyone else is doing  yes i fully agree with that yes i'm personally i'm not a gym person right but i love walks in the nature yeah i i have back injuries so i cannot do a lot of stuff hiking or bike riding just because of the fear of that right times maybe i've made a bit just a few aren't being close to nature while i exercise my body my muscle is more important to me is there is so much pleasure that comes out that i close to the nature yeah and that even a little amount of exercise there i am able to do has good feeling and that's what continues to motivate you to do all the wonderful things that you do in the world i think that you know connecting with nature is one of the best doses of medicine that we can give to ourselves and you know finding the joy of saying you know what i want to do this again tomorrow not only are you satisfying your soul but you're helping your actual external wellness too to continue on  a comforter and i believe that that's what i was doing so i started to say well i can still be satisfied without eating all of it and so when i got down to the last ten pounds i joined the gym and i fell in love with polite ease because when i was in high school i used to do cheerleading i did some track i loved dancing and being active i knew my cheerleading days were over  helped me to connect with the strength that i had once had and feeling the vitality and love of what i was doing was pull out of these books so within a year i was teaching my first class after i fell in love with politeness and since then it's i've been passionate about it and growing as a professional and learning more about how do service others who have injuries if you have shoulder injuries if you have bad injuries tell me a little bit more about people with injuries yes you know i feel a lot of people as i don't exercise because i have certain injuries and to some extent yes they're trying to be wanted for the if they don't not have that type of guidance i don't have the equipment to war with most often people have back it could be due to injury or it could be just the posture or something yes and you mention a latte and just kind body or radiating numbness so i mean really serious injuries spinal surgeries and things like that but low back pain is very common and so you're right there are different causes these are all parts of your core the this center of the buy the center of the body and the stronger you are in the center of your body the more endurance you have the better posture you will have and so we look at the arms and legs and they're not necessarily a part of the core but politeness looks at functional movements so in other words the work that you do and polite to strengthen your back which is from the abdominals ok ok the work that you do there is going to  everything else that you do if you have a strong back or if you feel like your back is more supported from your core when you take a walk by the water you are able to walk a little bit longer you may be able to take a so it's based on your progression but one thing that i will guarantee and apologies work out is that you will see a difference within ten classes and now we have met these which you don't need any equipment and we have reform replies which i am also certified in which is an apparatus which its inventor joe supplied has created from his own elements in the hospital so it is a modern day version of what he invented in the hospital s tell us a little bit more and how especially like you you had mentioned earlier that you know it has to come from hard yes yes i think the first rule of fitness is to love yourself and have acceptance for exactly the way you are i don't want to be anybody other than what i want to be my fitness goal is to be the best me that i can be and so i believe that that is the first rule of just self love and self acceptance that my body is perfect just the way it is now when we talk about having a bike tallaght and wellness we know that if we live a sedentary life we cut our quality of life significantly emotionally and we do because we're not doing all we can do and we're not living to our fullest so when we talk about the center of the body it's part of it is genetics some of it may have to do with any diagnosis that you may have and some of it may have to do with what we like to eat i mean  yes most often it's lifestyle yes lifestyle so after we love and accept ourselves we have we can then begin to iron out or spew no begin to open up the ideas of what could be causing  this i think that the best thing or one of the first things that we can do in conjunction with strengthening our core is cardiovascular exercise ok you know a twenty minute walk if you have a dog going outside and look at one walks just for the walks i don't mind i have whatever it is that makes you happy fifteen twenty minute bike ride i've been doing that on my mountain bike just writing down to the nearby college around the campus and back i'm back home in twenty minutes and i've gotten my metabolism started for the day that is one of the key factors as we get older particularly as women our metabolism begins to slow down so doing things that help you to very  simply burn more energy than is put into your body feel this energy and the formula for weight loss or for staying within the guidelines right that our doctors want to stay in is we expend more well that's that is a very interesting question because it depends on when your cortisol levels are high a lot of people take stress tests or to find out when their cortisol levels are the highest if your cortisol levels are the highest in the morning then you probably should not work out then and so then it gets a little bit more technical but say you don't have your stress test i think you can just tell by your body's how you feel going back to happiness what makes you happy if you like walking in the evening and watching the sunset is not a bad thing and what a lot of use does in conjunction with cardiovascular exercise is it helps you to become more aware instinctual level i mean you know if we had max in our exercise clothing on we could we could actually demonstrate it but if i ask you to pull your neighbor to your spine it gives you the appear of smaller and dominoes and you didn't do anything except use your muscles right so there are certain key components that your body is trained to begin to remember instinctively that you will hear over the course of the ten classes that we talked about that will make your body change because you're asking it to and it's training itself to do that so you have been doing so much work outside in the community yes  tell me where did you get started and what are you up to now well i'll tell you the first class that i actually had in the community i was going to an episcopal church over and trying pest couple and they the wonderful members there knew that i was a polarized instructor and i was newly getting my yoga certification and they were kind enough to be my guinea pigs ok yes so they graciously you know took class with me as i was learning and developed such a wonderful community of people there who are just we' just wonderful and patient with my changes in teaching and ever since then any opportunity that i have whether it's working with the girl scouts or at a local library or yoga in the park  i like to offer my services so that people can get an experience for yoga most of the time it's yoga ok and i think that yoga is a wonderful way to stay connected so tell me how do you get them to quite thin mind ok meditation or children are so active and i think part of the reason is because it is the expectation that they should be active and moving about but if they do it any way they do it anyway but if we offer them the opportunity to sit on a yoga mat and quiet their mind or do certain poses that actually are fun for them but what i call it is hiding the vegetables and the food right because any yoga pose that you do has a physical benefit but it also has a spiritual one absolutely so when we asked someone to do a down dog or if we asked someone to do a plank yes you are physically strengthening yourself but you're also on a spiritual level yourself the and doctrine glance that those of internal organs but also determination right if i would ask a student to do a warrior pose it is not only a strong pose physically but it it really offers an opportunity for you to strengthen your inner warrior there because we all have things every day that we have to go through that we need to you know get back to a place where we are one hundred percent as soon as we can because you know we are in the present moment and i think it's fascinating when it comes to children they like to use their imagination yes  the same time yes like we can be a warrior of love we can be a warrior of peace yes we can be a warrior of kindness you know a warrior a friendship anything the imagination can take them anywhere they want to go but here is what i draw away from because as an instructor of course i give but i also receive and particularly where children are concerned children have an uncanny ability to teach me they are move through the poses without any expectations i don't say you have to do it this way i show them the polls and i say now it's your turn and one thing that is remarkable we live in a world of technology where children know how to use i pads and telephones before they can walk they know how to navigate these things and so what i have found to be the biggest gift to me is to watch children go into relaxation and meditation and love it well you know when i bring in the bells to say ok we're going to come out of our relaxation they want to stay in the relaxation because we're giving them permission in yoga to just relax to charge their their internal battery and turn off the electronical to violence and i think it's not really good discipline from the childhood yes to get that into the body mind balance absolutely because of their i'm candy nature i think we as citizens when we get to a certain age we don't have to necessarily be as politically correct and we don't have to apologize  and we can speak our mind you can't speak our mind and so what i have found in my work with senior citizens is that we had such a wonderful banter if you will a wonderful exchange i had a class of seniors it was an aerobics class where we worked with chairs and i taught them how to do the electric slide and he absolutely loved it  so you know learning something new and understanding that as an instructor i don't know everything i don't have all the answers and what i offer all of my classes and particularly seniors is that you know we are co creators of this class and let's have fun let's get fit that's the key year that's the yes so this is all wonderful so going forward just what's in store for you you look wonderful thank you from where you have come in and you know and the what you're doing yes it's a name we need more and more of that mindset focused around our health yes and wellness so what are you creating for yourself well what i'd like to continue to create is starting with myself as an example of health and wellness so  only am i attempting to continue to eat right exercise my spiritual life is continuing to become more about to fall and what i offer myself i also offer to my classes and my clients and so what i'd like to see happen is to become more recognized as a wellness coach and not just for the fitness aspects but for the spiritual wealth and the wellness  of the whole being and not just your physical body there's so much need you know and there's so much talk of you and there's so many centers available but there are the nerve to have in every one  in directly in contact with someone not to read about an article or a blog context and expedience that i think an enemy a personal opinion unless you have an experience of meditation or you or other mind body connection they all seem like an exercise which you can go to a gym and do it yourself with any kind of fitness and were meant there is nothing wrong with using wonderful and i really would like to do see more and more of that type of work absolutely i think if i'm echoing what you're saying is that a machine is not a human connection a machine is not something that can say you're doing an awesome job just because you showed up that's the hardest part is getting there yes we all need a whole issue especially when we need to be  salute lee and i think if we continue coming it works and so what i like to be able to offer to my class is to say that no matter what level you are at if it's level one level to level three you showed up and there is something here for a year or so and who i've become as an instructor is a more hands on i used to when i was younger i used to do the entire class and  here's a confession i was more fit when i did that but i feel as though when i when i have a client or when i have a class i am there to service who is there and so if i can see what's going on in the class and if i can help you to change  saved here from don miguel ruiz because i think that we all need to understand how important we are in how much we have to give and offer to humanity every want to special everyone  has a job to offer to contribute and the quote girls i am perfect because i am inseparable from the infinite the force of life that creates stars and the entire universe of light