Move with May

I help people build strength, mobility & confidence with personalized movement.

My approach blends functional strength training, Pilates, yoga & therapeutic practices to support pain relief, injury recovery & real-life strength.

31/05/2026

Took a while but got it done before the end of May 😅😋. Photos from last week May 24, my actual birthday was May 20.
A very belated birthday post.

I grew up moving a lot as an expat / third culture kid, and Bangkok is the longest I’ve ever lived anywhere in one stretch.

I've always been comfortable with adapting to new places. But adapting to a place and building community aren't the same thing.

Especially in a city like Bangkok, where people are constantly arriving, leaving, and starting over.

Over the past few years, I've realized that community is what turns a place into home.

Not in the “huge friend group” sense, but in a quieter way: meaningful conversations, people to spend time with, and connections that grow stronger over time.

I’ve also had birthday blues for as long as I can remember, so birthdays have always carried a weird mix of emotions for me.

This year, I decided to do something I’d never done before and host a birthday like this. I invited almost everyone I know in Bangkok. Not one friend group, because I don’t really have one. More like individual people from different parts of my life who I’ve connected with over the years and genuinely wanted to stay in touch with more.

I don't think I realized how many connections I'd built over the years until I saw everyone there.

A few years ago, after some difficult friendship fallouts and struggles with social anxiety, I remember questioning whether I’d be able to build meaningful community here at all. Not because I didn’t belong in Bangkok, but because building community as an adult takes intention, especially in a city where people are constantly coming and going.

So this birthday wasn’t really about having a big party. It was more about creating space for connection. For people to meet, reconnect, mingle, and spend time together.

I know one gathering doesn’t magically create community overnight. And I still prefer smaller groups and one-on-one conversations most of the time. But this felt like a reminder that community often grows slowly through small moments, repeated effort, reconnecting, inviting people in, and continuing to show up.

26/05/2026

RESET & RESTORE
Starting Wednesday, June 3 ✨

It’s been a while since I’ve done regular group classes, so I’m excited to finally start them up again with Reset & Restore ✨

Many of you know me from my background in yoga, while over the past few years my work has evolved more toward strength training, mobility, corrective exercise (for muscular imbalances), and functional movement focused on posture, mobility, and helping the body move more efficiently. This class brings those approaches together into a supportive, adaptable format designed to help modern bodies move and feel better.

This class combines yoga, mat pilates, mobility, release work, posture support, and functional movement designed for modern bodies dealing with stiffness, desk work, stress, tension, or lack of movement.

Unlike a traditional yoga or pilates class, sessions may include:
• mobility drills
• resistance band work
• myofascial release
• glute & posture activation
• shoulder & hip mobility
• restorative stretching
• functional movement patterns

All adapted to the group on the day.

Suitable for all levels.

📍 Harmony Hub, Ekkamai 12
🗓 Wednesdays
12:00 – 13:00
17:00 – 18:00

PRICING
• Drop-in: 690 THB
• Intro Offer: 2 Classes for 1,100 THB
(shareable • valid 2 weeks)

Please book at least 24 hours in advance.
Minimum 3 participants required.

DM to book!

19/05/2026

I don’t market myself around fat loss like a lot of trainers do.

This client told me that stood out to her. I loved that.

Her goals were things like:
• not getting out of breath going up stairs
• improving balance
• feeling stronger in everyday life

And honestly, these are the kinds of goals I love working with people on. It's why I do what I do. Not for body transformations.

These are the goals that actually create lasting change because they affect your everyday life — not just a number on a scale.

I’ve also had someone message me thinking they were “too fat” to work with a trainer.

At first that surprised me. But the more conversations I have with people, the more I understand where that fear comes from.

A lot of people have felt uncomfortable, judged, or out of place in fitness spaces.

And social media honestly doesn’t help when most fitness content only shows one type of body exercising.

Fitness belongs to every body.

Hillary duff soundtrack because

16/05/2026

Tibialis anterior (shin) activation is often used for:
• improving dorsiflexion (ankle mobility)
• foot and arch control
• flat feet / excessive pronation
• shin splints
• helping the body maintain ankle mobility during daily movement
In the original standing tibialis anterior activation demo, the exercise is performed facing the wall.
But when I tried it, I noticed I wanted to hinge my hips back instead of staying upright and getting true ankle dorsiflexion.
I’ve seen wall tib raises used in other programs before, but the Brookbush cueing about toe position and inversion completely changed how the exercise felt.
For me, this variation made it easier to stay aligned.
Brookbush explains that curling the toes may help reduce compensation from overactive long toe extensors and increase tibialis anterior activation.
I noticed a big difference when curling the toes versus not curling them.
Another thing Brookbush points out about this variation compared to the resistance band version:
The effectiveness depends heavily on effort.
If you casually lift the feet up and down without really trying to reach end-range dorsiflexion, you probably won’t get much from it.
But if you actively try to lift as high as possible and hold the position with control, the exercise feels completely different because you’re working against the resistance of your own calf complex.
Sometimes small adjustments — and more intentional effort — completely change how an exercise feels and what muscles you actually use.

15/05/2026

No, you’re not supposed to be sore after every workout.

A little soreness when you start something new? Normal.
But if it’s happening every single session, it usually means something’s off.

Most of the time it comes down to:
– doing too much, too soon
– training inconsistently (so your body never adapts)
– or pushing to failure every workout

And something people don’t talk about enough:
👉 recovery matters just as much as training

If you’re always sore, it can also be a sign you’re:
– not eating enough (especially protein)
– not sleeping well or enough
– or just not giving your body what it needs to recover

The goal isn’t to feel wrecked after every session.
The goal is to get better over time.

When you’re consistent, soreness usually decreases after a few sessions — even if the workout stays the same. That’s your body adapting.

If you want less soreness and better results:
– train consistently (2–3x/week is enough)
– leave a couple reps in the tank
– focus on quality, not just exhaustion
– and take your recovery seriously

You don’t need to destroy your body to make progress.

11/05/2026

Pregnancy and postpartum demand a lot physically — and not always in perfectly “balanced” positions.

You’re holding a baby on one side, carrying bags with the other, pushing strollers, lifting car seats, rotating, stabilizing, adjusting.

That’s why I love asymmetrical carries during pregnancy training.

Not because they look fancy.
Because they prepare people for real life.

And honestly? This applies to dads/partners too.

Pregnancy training isn’t about shrinking yourself. It’s about building capacity for what’s ahead.

09/05/2026

I’ve been taking courses through the Brookbush Institute — an evidence-based education platform for personal trainers and corrective exercise specialists created by a physical therapist.
As someone with flat feet myself, learning more about lower leg dysfunction, ankle mobility, and foot control has completely changed how I think about movement and corrective exercise.
Brookbush demonstrates this exercise using a treatment table setup, but I wanted to show how it can also be adapted at home using a door anchor and mini band.
A lot of people work on ankle mobility with:
• calf stretching
• foam rolling
• ankle mobilizations
…but forget to strengthen the muscle that maintains that motion.
The tibialis anterior (shin muscle) is the primary ankle dorsiflexor (lifting the foot toward the shin) — and helps control how the foot lowers during walking, running, jumping, and stairs.
Every time your heel hits the ground, the tibialis anterior helps decelerate plantar flexion (lowering the foot toward the floor) so the foot doesn’t just “slap” into the ground.
This muscle is commonly associated with:
• dorsiflexion (knee moving forward over the foot without the heel lifting)
• arch/foot control
• shock absorption during gait
• flat feet / excessive pronation
• shin splints
And in many people, it tends to become relatively long and under-active.
That’s why improving ankle mobility isn’t only about releasing tight calves or mobilizing the ankle joint — your body also needs strength and control to actually use that new range of motion during daily movement.

Brookbush Institute

06/05/2026

crazy how those tags about looking younger have been used over 20,000 times.

01/05/2026

I've been wanting to post this for a while. I'm on a different island this weekend so I thought, while I have a minute - it would be a good time to post about a previous trip and what I learned.

I used to think everything was a sign.
Now I think they’re tests—of how badly we want something, how we handle pressure, and who we choose to be in those moments.

This trip made that really clear to me.

The first time we tried to come here, I didn’t even make it. We rented a motorbike for the hour drive… and less than halfway in, it started pouring. Then the bike broke down. We were stuck in the rain, waiting forever for help. My husband stayed, got the bike fixed and continued to his destination for his trail race. I got overwhelmed, started crying, and eventually left. I gave up on the trip completely.

Fast forward to this time. Second attempt. Same place.
We planned things differently - no bike this time 😅.

It did rain again when we arrived at the hotel.

When I went out to check tour info— it poured.
When my husband went—no rain.

Old me would’ve taken that as a sign or got frustrated.

But this time… I didn’t react the same way.

No frustration, no spiraling, no giving up. Just patience.

And that’s when it clicked:
maybe it was never about the signs.
Maybe it was always about the reaction.

Same situation. Different version of me.

28/04/2026

This ankle mobilization can help more than just your ankles.

Limited ankle dorsiflexion (the knee moving forward over the foot) can affect how the body moves during walking, stairs, lunges, squats, and other lower body exercises.

When motion is limited at the ankle, the body often compensates somewhere else.

Try this band ankle mobilization:

• Band sits low on front of ankle
• Keep foot flat
• Drive knee forward
• Gentle rocks at end range
• 15–30 seconds, then reassess

Learned this from the Brookbush Institute, an education resource for personal trainers and corrective exercise specialists created by a physical therapist.

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