Fitness

Embracing Mindful Movement: Moving in Ways that Feel Good to You

Last week I had a a rich conversation with Marie-Pier Pitre-D’Iorio, Registered Dietician and founder of The Balanced Practice (a team of health care providers who take an anti-diet and weight inclusive approach to support people in having a better relationship with food, their bodies & themselves). Marie-Pier and I discussed what it means to move mindfully and how…

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Best Tips for a Healthy Body and Mind: Tea with Li

It was a special treat for me to sit down with my friend Li Koo who is Toronto based Realtor on her “Tea with Li” pod/webcast. We had a warm and candid conversation about personal autonomy and disrupting limiting and oppressive norms. It was honestly one of the best conversations I’ve had in quite some time, and…

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Comments About My Weight and Internalized Fatphobia

I had an experience at the end of my online Nia class today that I can’t get off my mind.   I was chatting with the students as I normally do when we’re done class. We’re talking about air travel when one woman makes a comment about my weight.   I paused in shock. This type…

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Living life on purpose in my midlife!

I was fortunate to be featured by Sara Smeaton on her “Power Profiles” series.  Sara is an amazing coach who helps people discover the joy and power in midlife while navigating transitions on your own terms. She’s my kind of person! The original post can be found on her website here.

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Breaking Body Biases: Can Exercise be Harmful? Orthorexia with FitPro Jennifer Hicks

I recently had the honour of being interviewed by Christine DiFilippis of Breaking Body Biases.  Breaking Body Biases is an anti-diet and joyful movement podcast which amplifies the voices of fitness professionals, dieticians and health practitioners promoting HAES (Health At Every Size). How wonderful to talk with Christine about diet culture, privilege, choice making and…

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Jenn Drakes Arrays of Living

I was so grateful to have the opportunity to be in conversation with Jenn Drakes a couple of weeks ago on her show “Arrays of Living“. We discussed my favourite topic, Nia, and also about being kind to ourselves. At 4:12 Jenn & I discuss what Nia is At 6:50 we connect on the benefits of…

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My healing was ignited through joyful movement

Since I started teaching Nia in 2006, I have been in a process of recovery. Healing from adult onset anorexia and an exercise addiction was not easy. But it sure helped that I had the medicine called “joyful movement” through Nia. Now, almost 15 years later, I have been teaching Nia through a body/fat positivity…

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Wake up! How I learned to feel more alive through Nia Technique

Have you ever been insecure about your cognitive abilities?  If you have, then you’ll know that it’s really, really stressful. For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt like something was a little “off” with my mind.  Like I needed to simply wake up.  I felt that way about school, music lessons, sports, social…

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