Our bodies love routines but to maintain our strength and flexibility we need to embrace change.

It always amazes me how awful I begin to feel after about a week off from my regular fitness routine. I know that it's important for me to take a break from teaching but when you're used to as much movement as I am - about 3 hours a day of either dance, Essentrics or yoga- my body starts to rebel by about day 4. My back and hips grow stiff and my energy level drops into the basement, to the point where I find myself tired after a night of sleep. Still when I'm on vacation, pa

Technically the company name, Essentrics®, is a play on words, specifically on the term eccentric training from the fitness industry. In...

The last six months have been filled with so much change that something had to give which is why I have not written a blog since the Fall...

Yesterday, in one of my in person classes, a student approached me with serious concerns about her inability to balance and then an hour...

"Who is your fitness trainer?" I love it when doctors or physiotherapists ask this question to one of my gym members because it means...