COLLABS & CO-CREATIONS!

***NEW*** MOTION LAB - Years ago, I used to admire this superstar from afar, and now I’m collaborating with her! How beautiful the magic of manifestation works! Irina Andreea is a fellow fitness Jedi who cares about the planet as much as our physical well-being. Irina is a personal trainer and mobility coach who rides the therapeutic side of movement. She is the rare trainer that treats in clinics alongside physiotherapists, chiropractors, and RMTs. She is also an eco-conscious geek like me!

***BACK AGAIN*** ATHLETIC LAB - I'm super excited to be co-creating once again with my bff Julia Simone, as our pandemic classes last summer were quite a hit! We averaged 20 participants per session, selling out all but one of our classes, which landed on a long weekend. We’re very much looking forward to a hot 2021 summer with you!

With a combination of group exercise, 1on1 personal training, and a handy library for those rainy days, I hope this summer special helps you feel fully supported.

I’m keen to take on a handful of dedicated clients this summer so that we can really hold each other accountable to a program that spans the full spectrum of fitness meets health. If you’re an existing client, past client, or always thought about it, but never pulled the trigger, maybe now’s the time.
I’ll be starting in-person sessions the week of Monday, July 12th. Sessions can be conducted in my condo, in the park, or at home visits depending on location.

As the world reopens, I believe entrepreneurship will be at an all time high. When there are busts, there are resulting booms. Knowing that the fitness industry was created by health-conscious entrepreneurs, the pandemic pushed us to forge new frontiers. With the online fitness surge taking us to new heights in community forming, gamification, and in-home gymming, there is now a viable new channel of business in fitness, beyond the brick and mortar of gym spaces. We’ve invented new tools, new access, and new perspectives for becoming fit, which makes for very exciting times in 2021 and beyond. New job opportunities will spring up and the demand for hybrid IRL & URL fitness professionals will be high. So as a dedicated careerist in Fitness, I’m taking my own development to the next level by offering a ‘Fitpreneur’ mentorship program.

I’ll be taking on 3 mentees this summer/fall and teaching them all I know. It’s about time right?!?!

She doesn’t know this, but I’m featuring the work of an acquaintance I admire from afar, Alex Grant. She is a Mindfulness and Heart Work Coach that is doing important work for our soul and spirit. Over my time in Central America, I have felt the power of letting my heart lead, with the passenger seat support of my head. The evidence of that success is the production of two successful Community Mindshare Events, with USD $500 donated directly to social impact efforts in marginalized indigenous communities. I would not have been able to produce these events without my team and tools, were it not for my ability to tap into my heartfulness. Part of that success resides in my dedication to heart-centered RITUALS. By honing personal practices that declutter, clarify, and align oneself to soulwork, the gap between now and when I’m retired cease to exist when it comes to engaging in purpose and cause-driven initiatives. Social Impact starts with the Self.

Please take a moment to read and implement tools from Alex’s RITUAL Guide.

Nicole Divell has been a deep-talk friend of mine for a few years now. We co-created a Movement & Mindset Lab class series specifically for runners last summer. It was definitely ahead of its time, but allowed us to experiment on the convergence of Running Biomechanics and Running Mindset.

I am featuring her new work under the account OracleCityToronto. I always look to her for inspiration in the realm of spiritual education and coaching. This summer, I hope to continue collaborating with her on our Run series, this time focusing in on Running Spirituality, and how we can use running as an emotional and spiritual healing activity, something beyond metrics and body measurements.

“I get this perception that a lot of people believe you need to be in a white gown with candles and incense and meditation music on to be spiritual. Spirituality is a DAILY choice. It's the choice to feel better about yourself, it's the choice to temper negative thoughts, it's the choice to be kinder, it's the choice to feel safe within who you are, it's the choice to enjoy without guilt. Spirituality is an essence of who you CHOOSE to be.” - OracleCityToronto

“We are all stars
Who fell from the heavens,
Shining so bright.

Who at some point decided
To dim the light.

To get along, to fit in,
We let the darkness of doubt win.

Then spend a lifetime

Searching

For the light
That is our birthright

So we can return home.”

- Dr. Stacy Thomas

Stacy has been a long time supporter of my 2.0 Toronto work. We’ve done podcast interviews, instagram lives, and featured each other to our followings. She has been following my Central America journey which was a wonderful surprise, and so I wanted to feature her work as a next step towards whatever it is that our energies will create together.

Writing is a skill I’ve honed since a Writing 101 course I took with my twin brother back in 3rd year university at Western. It changed my life. It empowered me to write my feelings and articulate my thoughts beyond what speech could do. I realized my written words could reach people in ways my spoken words or non-verbal actions could never, this has made all the difference as a teacher, friend, lover, brother, and son.

Stacy is one that guides people to harness this superpower. So please take the time to download her Digital Journal.

May the flow be with you