Where effort meets mindfulness, strength meets grace, and bod lifts heart.
Presence Awareness Intention Belief Affirmation Imagination Creation
Presence Awareness Intention Belief Affirmation Imagination Creation
Take masterful control of your own fitness journey— permanently!
results without compromise movement without boxes exercise with autonomy.
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Join me for our two-month virtual group immersion and learn to:
reason effectively and holistically through your physical journey.
balance optimal muscle growth (or function) with joint health.
integrate the best of yoga, pilates, athletics, resistance training, and barre into low-impact styles of training.
cultivate exceptional form and mindfulness in optimized movements and postures.
fine tune set-schemes, rep-schemes, tempos, training frequency, volume, intensity, and workout structure to fit your needs.
Within a framework that cares for presence, perspective, and
Immersion Structure:
Three pillars. Each self-standing and dynamic.
Live classes, Workshops, and Events: classes will paint the full picture, workshops will allow us to collaborate, and events will shake things up. all are optional.
Live Personal Coaching: you’ll have access to both live one-on-one training with me (where we can address your worries, develop your tools, and build your plan), and daily messaging access for convenient support.
Learning Resources: and if you’d like a quieter approach, you can access our pre-recorded program, combining video and text, for an equally comprehensive, concise, and engaging learning experience.
Immersion capacity is limited to ensure one-on-one attention is met; additionally, to remain accommodating, the schedule of core classes will be light and flexible while your available schedule will offer additional variety and depth.
Hosted in one platform. For $1,800. Paid once. made seamless and secure by Circle and Stripe; payment options available.
a little about me
I've now worked successfully with hundreds of people across nearly every possible wellness setting(I haven’t worked on boats, or starships)— but that only came after more than a decade of being dangerously consumed in this world. In my defense, I was having fun. And I was nice. And I was also annoyingly analytical and experimental about the whole thing (I would squat 405lb for over 15 reps and I wont tell you how warped my perception and eating habits were). I also hold a degree in Philosophy from Trinity University TX (magna cum laude), and a personal training certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Bod and Heart is my way of passing on my vocation to people without the mistakes (and injuries). And this immersion is my way of bringing my best to you. It represents many years of planning and I couldn’t be more excited to finally share it with you. Thanks for being here!2. Joy in action.
What we do matters. But not as much as how we do things.
Our core tenets:
1. Mindfulness in action.
That’s our most important marker of improvement (outside of technique), more so than weight-numbers, rep-ranges, and modalities of training. These things have their place, but the truth remains that huge tension and power can be generated with little weight and minimal strain. What that requires is positioning, timing, and mindfulness. How well can you feel and see the movement? And how in control are you of your muscles? Eventually that leads to ease.
Relevant practices include imagining yourself performing any physical activity when you're not, intentionally honing your focus and awareness when you are, calling only on specific muscle fibers (within the same muscle you're using) to perform a certain activity, including "movement" based training where the goal becomes fluidity (drop the weight or the strain for a moment), tactile/ verbal reminders (on one extreme you have people who talk to their muscles), and reestablishing your relationship with healthy discomfort— by facing it! Reasons orient us, especially when they're close to us. And yet, for all of the reasons that we can find, none of them can motivate us like love and joy can. And if you can come to love the process, or just the thing you’re doing (like sweating, moving around, or moving weights), then progress is sure to follow. Finding that joy in movement is often as simple as breathing in and drawing attention to what we’re doing or sensing; or as simple as regarding our body with the care and the love that's already there. On our part, we seek to care for that joy by providing you with a secure space free of worrying pressures, expectations, and metrics. Have fun! Your success depends on it.
3. Balance in action.
We strive, but never at the expense of balance. Even as we seek to embody a particular functional or muscular profile, be it for running, handling our day, or hitting the stage, our health will depend on acknowledging and balancing other practices.
Health will depend on our adaptation to varying stimuli and capacities. It will depend on our willingness to trust ourselves and to listen to our bodies. And it will depend on our willingness to remain open and responsible to the other parts of our life. That's what keeps us going.