Healthcare Healing
Healthcare professionals — thank you so much for all that you do.
I know a lot of your work might seem like it is unnoticed, but I know firsthand that you are making a difference in the world. When I was 15 years old, my mom was critically ill. She went to the ER around October 2016 and soon after that she was transferred to the ICU where she stayed for almost 3 months. In a large majority of that time she was in a drug-induced coma. Throughout that time, my family and I experienced so much love, humanity, and hope from the nurses and other healthcare professionals looking after her. She could not even say thank you, but nurses were there knowing her by name. Although she passed away in January of 2017, my life was forever changed by the love that we experienced in the hospital.
One of my personal training clients is a nurse and he took some time off from work. I asked him what usually gives him fulfillment and he told me it was his work. I love that work in healthcare can be so incredibly fulfilling, but it is heartbreaking to know that the last few years have been tough for you all due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Fulfilling work should never feel like a burden and I am sorry that the challenges you continue to experience may take away much of the joy and love that you have fo what you do.
Here are a collection of videos that I hope can give you an intro to meditation, yoga, and bodyweight movement. Please leave your email to be added to my community of healthcare professionals like yourself trying to not only find healing, but also grow in strength, spiritual wellness, and emotional health.
Find your healing. Give more life.
Meditations
Sometimes finding stillness is the most productive thing you can ever do. Meditation is a great way to find peace during a busy day, clam the mind, and find the healing that you need.
Metta, or Loving Kindness, is a meditation done to send love to people around you but also to send love to yourself. Mantra meditations are a great way to really train your focus and to experience cleansing the mind by having one singular focus. It is also a great way for you to make subconscious change. Breathwork meditations are a series of breathing practices or just breath awareness that either can help you get to a more restful state or a more awake state. Yoga Nidra is one of the most powerful meditation techniques that help you go through different layers of your being until you can reach a “bliss” state. You can also include powerful visualizations that give you a new way of looking at things and deep rest.
Yoga
One of the best decisions that I have ever made was to do a yoga teacher training. I now am able to teach others to find healing by using their body. You can use yoga to open up your mind, body, soul, and heart.
Awaken sessions are designed to awake your body and give you the energy that you might need. You will also feel more open and focused. Release sessions are designed to help you find stillness, peace, and relaxation to your body and mind. These sessions are designed to be after a long work day or on your rest days to find more relief. Move sessions are yoga with a little more gearing towards strength training and animal flow. These sessions will be a little more challenging, but can also be more rewarding.
Fitness
The biological definition fo fitness is “an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.” Fitness is about your health, energy, and survivability. If you want to live a longer and more vibrant life, fitness is going to be key. Movement can take us away from our pain, shift your body composition, and give you the energy you need to give your all to everything outside of your own work. FItness is important and easily measurable. What to get better — do more reps, sets, shorter rest, or more difficult exercises. Inspiration is not what gets you moving, progress is. Your progressions will push you towards more progressions.
Follow Along workouts are designed to be done with me as your coach. These workouts will be full-body workouts under my guidance to help you build strength, but important movements for your own life.
Workout Walkthroughs are meant to show you movements that you can put together to create a workout according to your own ability. These workouts will teach you how to do these movements on your own. Take your time because these workouts are all based on your fitness level and how hard you want to work.