Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

I call myself a “triathlon groupie.” I know many talented triathletes, and I can swim, bike, and run in my own right, but I tend to do each sport individually. Most recently, I’ve been on a bit of a cycling kick.…

Moving from novelty to patterns… Hidden deep within, buried beneath your ego and starved of creativity is a version of you that is dying to be fed. It’s your inner learner. Carol Dweck, Ph.D, the mindset maestro phrased it best when…

Have you ever found yourself in the midst of a yoga class or workout session wondering how you can get more out of the time you put in? You know a bigger bang for your buck? Or as a teacher of…

To honor National Yoga Month, we’re releasing four Yoga Tune Up moves that will support your yoga practice. Our first stretch focuses on the hips and legs. Much of daily life impacts our walking patterns. Excessive sitting can turn our strut…

Recently, I extracted this message from a fortune cookie, “Change is happening in your life, so go with the flow!” And that is exactly how I teach a Yoga Tune Up® flow class: with an eye toward change and discovery. My…

In my last blog post I wrote about using Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls for self-massage and stress relief. For a long time, I was living in fear of any movement because I didn’t want to trigger my most intense moments…

Last time, we started to talk about the injuries and issues that can occur in and around the elbow and forearm. We introduced lateral epicondylitis, or “tennis elbow,” as one of the most prevalent overuse/repetitive strain pathologies here. This and other…

I played tennis throughout high school and college and prided myself on developing a little muscle bulge in each forearm, near the elbow, that my brother dubbed “the egg.” He has one in each forearm, too. With a little help from…

The first and second installments of my story cataloged my personal journey with breath and yoga. Now, as a practicing Yoga Tune Up® teacher, my journey was about to take me to another YTU immersion, Breath and Bliss. I had never…