News From Around the Block – March 2012
Wellness Bundles
Looking to do some internal “Spring Cleaning”? Later this month (March 24—the first weekend of Spring), Nina will be hosting a workshop on the topic of cleansing. In addition to the two-hour educational event, the cost of the workshop will include a month’s worth of supplements, a week of infrared sauna, 2 Ionic foot soaks, 1 massage, a grocery-shopping list, weekly check-ins, and access to your coach via email. For more details, click here.
If you’ve read the top of our Synergy poster you know it says “Finding vibrant health is rarely about finding a missing link, rather it’s all about Synergy.” To that end, our growing breadth of offerings has allowed us bundle different services into packages to help you create genuine and lasting change. If you’re looking to transition to a healthy lifestyle consider our new Wellness Packages as a possible solution. We don’t know where you’ll find this many services (aspects of wellness) in one place. Not only is each service outstanding, the bundles also give you our best rates! A new you awaits on the other side!
New Services
As a part of our continuing efforts to be as holistic as possible we are proud to bring Professional Wellness Coaching to our list of services. A Wellness Coach is a person in your corner who helps bring the critical thinking, action planning and accountability necessary to facilitate sustainable lifestyle changes. Coaching is highly individualized and focuses on helping you make changes in the areas you’re most motivated to change. We are so excited to offer this new service because we believe it can be one of the best ways to bridge intention and results, or in other words, bridge our other services in ways that are sure to bring results. A wellness coach helps you discover insights that often are some of the most valuable life lessons you will ever learn. What are you waiting for?
Our massage offering just took a giant leap forward. In addition to our outstanding Swedish, Deep Tissue, and Pregnancy massage, we are thrilled to now offer the following types of massage: Thai, Fijian, Ashiatsu, Reflexology, and Swe-Thai. If you’ve not heard of them, then you’ve got to find out what you’re missing.
After much time refining her skills, our wonderful acupuncturist is now offering one of the best acupuncture niches around—cosmetic acupuncture, also know as facial rejuvenation acupuncture. Each treatment will be a full body treatment and focus on facial health and rejuvenation that will leave you glowing and looking your best. And if you’ve never had someone use hot towels on your skin you don’t know what you’re missing! This service can be great for anyone dealing with skin issues on their face or just someone wanting to slow
aging and have a more youthful appearance. Forget Botox and its side-effects, come get your youthful glow back naturally! Nina has been trying it and loves it!
New Team Members
Janet Witucki –Wellness Coach
In addition to being a Board Certified Coach (BCC), and Certified Wellness Coach, Janet earned her Masters of Science in Physical Therapy. She is also a certified Pilates instructor, and certified Strength and Conditioning Coach. Experience is truly a great teacher and it is the thousands of hours working one-on-one with clients that have honed her unique gift for coaching people to reach their goals. As a coach, Janet is an expert in facilitating change. It is her passion to help you grow and change in order to get the results and the life you desire. Her non-judgmental, client-centered approach coupled with extensive knowledge of the wellness arena and the team she surrounds herself with here are just a part of what makes Janet a great coach. We are lucky to have her.
Deb Millander –Massage Therapist
Deb became interested in massage roughly 23 years ago while trying to relieve the body aches and discomfort her husband put up with while flying C-141′s and later C-17′s for the USAF. Her passion for massage became apparent in 1992, while stationed in Charleston, SC, when she gave birth to premature twins. While the 2nd twin, Joshua, was battling for his life at the Children’s Hospital, Deb was
asked to let him be a part of a pilot program for massage on preterm infants. By allowing a CMT to work 15 minutes twice a day for seven days, Joshua went from a 30% chance of survival to 100% and was allowed to be discharged soon afterwards. The power of touch!
Deb enjoys helping clients relieve tension and stress from their daily lives through different massage modalities and specializes in working with specific soft and deep tissue pain and discomfort, helping expectant mothers work through some of the physical discomforts that come with pregnancy, and she is volunteering her amazing skills here with us. Deb is married, an Air Force spouse (retired), has three sons, and has been homeschooling for the last 17 years. In her spare time she enjoys spending time outdoors, studying foreign languages, traveling with family, and raising French Bulldogs.
Alisia Essig – Pilates Instructor
Alisia graduated in Communications and Political Science from the University of Utah and completed her Masters degree in Public Administration at The George Washington University. While attending graduate school, Alisia starting having knee pain when she would run so she began taking Pilates and yoga classes for cross training. It was at this time that Alisia discovered her love for Pilates and she became very passionate in learning more about the Pilates method of physical fitness.
Alisia originally certified in Mat Pilates in 2008 and comes from over 200 hours of teaching experience. In 2010, she advanced her training through BASI Pilates. Alisia strongly believes that Pilates can improve strength and flexibility by creating long, lean muscles. She provides instruction in Pilates Mat, such as various levels of stretching and strength including: physical stretches, breathing techniques, and strengthening techniques for participants of varying levels of fitness, skill, and ability.
New Events
After the success of last year’s team we decided to go play in the mud again. Saturday September 8th in Frederick, Maryland—about an hour away from our Studios. If you’re looking for an unforgettable event to train for come join us for the most challenging civilian obstacle course/race on the planet! If you want to join us just send us a note and we’ll send you and invitation! You’ve never had so much fun getting dirty!
Last month we added a Tuesday/Thursday 6:00a.m. Pilates mat class. Starting the week of March 5th we will begin offering our unique, semi-private Pilates Circuit Classes where we will use the Cadillac, Reformer, Wunda Chair and Mat. These classes are 2-3 person classes that allow attendees to benefit from the Pilates apparatus (not just the mat) at a more economical rate than one-on-one session. Each class is $40 for 60 minutes. Space in each class is limited so reserve your space today.
Weather permitting our first outdoor boot camp of the year kicks off March 26th. Like our other camps, this one run M, W, F mornings at 6:00 and is $200 for new campers and $240 for veterans. If you love to greet the day feeling like a million bucks because you had a challenging yet fun workout, you’ve gotta check out our boot camps. We’ve got new toys and new challenges this year. Come play with us! Hoo-Rah!
Jeremy’s new MAT Masters Specialty!
A big congratulation to our own Jeremy Rucker who successfully completed the challenging Muscle Activation Techniques Masters Specialty (how many of you know all 600 muscles, what they do and are able to put together a skeleton blindfolded?) He is one of only a few dozen Masters level specialist in the entire world and he’s here ready to help in any way he can. If you’ve got some aches and pain, or simply some performance goals and you’ve not tried MAT you don’t know what you’re missing. Jeremy is exceptionally knowledgeable, humble, and understands our holistic culture as well as anyone.
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