Monthly Archives: July 2011

Get Yourself Committed!

This entry was originally posted 3/9/11 by Sarah, at the start of our second pilot run. Welcome to “round two” of Warrior Rising, everyone!  We’re off to a strong start. Anne Marie and I really appreciated your openness and honesty during our discussion last night.  As we all identified, there seems to be a universal “mom of young kids” syndrome in regard to fitness: having previously prioritized fitness and feeling strong in our bodies, only to have those priorities fly [...]

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Paying Attention to Your Posture

This entry was originally posted 3/10/11 by Anne Marie. Everyone knows that good posture can make you look self-assured and confident. It can also keep you healthy as you age, and that’s why it’s so important to walk tall, keeping those shoulders back and that core tight. However, with so many people stuck in office jobs, constantly sucked into their computer screens, more and more people are suffering from low back pain, breathing problems, pinched nerves, fatigue and many other [...]

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5 Ingredients to Avoid

This post was originally published 3/16/11 by Anne Marie. I know what you’re thinking. “Great, here we go, more ingredients to add to that ever growing list of things to avoid. Why don’t I just stop eating!” Ah, if only that were an option we’d all be so much better off. Instead, we need to be even more wary and skeptical when entering any food market, or farmer’s market for that matter. I know, who’d have thunk? Farmer’s markets are [...]

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Breath In, Breath Out

This entry was originally published 3/27/11 by Sarah. First of all, I want to thank you guys for a really great discussion this week, about stress and different ways to deal with it.  I swear, no matter how much I try to keep an even keel, the reality is that there are many times throughout the day when I lose my patience, when my buttons get pushed and I react.  Or when I notice that I’m acting in less-than-skillful ways in response [...]

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The Wonder Woman Protein Shake

This post was originally published 2/1/11 by Anne Marie. I was watching Dr. Oz the other day, (that Dr. Oz, hasn’t he just exploded on the scene) and he had on Timothy Ferriss, who is the author of The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman. (All good things.) His niche, in my opinion, is his unconventional wisdom. He talks about taking ice baths, losing more fat than a marathoner by bingeing, and sleeping 2 [...]

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Step It Up!

This post was originally published 2/9/11 by Anne Marie (during our first pilot run, back when we were still assigning homework!) So this week Sarah and I have decided on taking a new approach when it comes to homework; we give you a specific assignment and you all report back (via commenting on this blog) about your wonderful successes at accomplishing the homework! Sound good? Excellent! So let’s get started. This week we’re calling the assignment the Step it Up Project. What [...]

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Be Still and Notice: Meditation

This post was originally published 2/15/11 by Sarah. At our check-in conversation last Tues night, some of you had questions about meditation.  What is meditation?  What is the purpose of it, and how do you meditate? Well, I’m no expert, but I do have some experience with the practice and have had the great fortune to sit with some very knowledgeable teachers.  So I thought I’d put some information in a blog post, along with some links for further investigation, [...]

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Veni, Vidi, Veggie

This post was originally published 2/16/11 by Sarah (during our first pilot run, when we were still assigning homework!) For your Warrior homework this week, Anne Marie and I decided to give you two specific challenges, to be done over the next two weeks.  (Remember we don’t meet next week during February break.) I’d like to introduce you to your first, true food challenge, aside from keeping your food journals, of course.  Veni, Vidi, Veggie: I came, I saw, I [...]

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Ideas for Your 10 – 20 Minutes of Cardio!

This post was originally published 1/17/11 by Anne Marie. I’m a big proponent of getting in at least 10 minutes a day of exercise, be it cardio or strength training, or a combination of both. I advise all my clients to do it, despite hectic schedules and attention-seeking kids. It’s 10 minutes, you can carve it somewhere out of your day, I know you can! How to make that the most effective 10 – 20 minutes of your day may [...]

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Mat as Laboratory

This post was originally published 1/10/11 by Sarah (at the beginning of our initial pilot run). Each time I come to my mat, either for meditation or asana practice, I am reminded of at least one aspect of why I love these practices.  In addition to the physical benefits and the energetic shifts that take place, I am most grateful when I am reminded that my mat is a laboratory for the rest of my daily life. I don’t know [...]

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