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We’re a one-stop-shop to stretch, sweat, jump and sculpt.

Our intention is simple: to provide fun, feel-good classes that help you strengthen your body as you polish your spirit.

02/11/2026

As our family prepares for our next chapter—a move back to Atlanta—I am going to be transitioning out of my work in New Orleans. If your schedule permits, please join me at Spyre for The Workout Within 2/12 or 2/19 at 9:45A.

I’m grateful to for the opportunity I was given to teach The Workout Within in this magical space for nearly three years. If you followed the class here from Bywater: thank you for helping me continue the story. If you hopped on board once the class moved to the LGD: thank you for helping to write this chapter.

08/15/2024

We can accomplish so much in stillness.

Looking to get back into the rhythm of movement following summer vaca(s)? Now booking private training in-person (NOLA & Mobile) and on Zoom (worldwide, baby). 🌎

10/12/2023

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09/27/2023

Dawn patrol meets core control. ❤️‍🔥

I love getting clients up on an elevated surface for all fours work. It is a fantastic way to throw a curveball to muscles like the lower abs.

For extra challenge, I add in the beam as a post for the non-stabilizing hand to hold. (A broom would work here too.)

But my primary motivation for capturing this moment is I found it poignant to watch my client take on this challenging sequence as a ship passed in the background attempting to keep industry moving along the drought-impacted Mississippi River. Starting the day with movement can be such a powerful salve for shifting bleakness about our challenges into creative thinking about how to solve them. We can convert effort into optimism, energy out into energy in. 💫

09/20/2023

Everything ends, but at any point during our time on this planet, we can create a new beginning. 🖤

It’s time for our family to [finally] close our chapter at the corner of Rampart & Clouet and we’ve dropped the price on our beloved property to encourage the next visionary to step in and bring a community business to life in this former corner store.

With a residence upstairs and a ground level apartment, wrap around gallery, private back patio and driveway for two cars, this historic building could be just the answer for someone looking to live above their business and offset the cost with income from the rear apartment. Acupuncturist? Baker? Latte maker? Call your realtor and step in to a vanilla box you can color your own. 🤍

04/14/2023

A truly spectacular experience training a client on the Mississippi River just after sunrise today. Work keeps me indoors much of the time—as it does her—and I felt like we both needed a dose of fresh air and some vitamin D.

For me, nature is both grounding and humbling. It shrinks the problems I think are Mount Everest into molehills. It can make one feel at once vulnerable (the ants that made their way onto our props) and unstoppable (my client as she kept with and completed the reps in this wall sit even when she wanted it to be over). 😅

10/06/2022

We can’t turn back time but do you know that strength training can have a role in determining how much time you get for your future? A review of 16 major studies found that just thirty minutes a week of strength training is associated with up to a 20 percent reduced risk for dying from any cause, or from cancer, heart disease or diabetes.

Adding aerobic exercise reduced risk for dying by 40 percent (British J of Sports Medicine, June 16, 2022;56(13):755-763).

The World Health Organization recommends at least two days a week of muscle-strengthening activities for adults because having larger and stronger muscles appears to help prevent many diseases and prolong lives.

09/13/2022

My 5-year-old asked if she could run a mile with me and by .96 she wanted to know why on earth people “intentionally do this!” 😂 She finished her first mile and post run Popsicle withstanding, declared running as being for the birds.

As I continue to train for the Nashville 1/2 Marathon and cross train for the race, I’m humbled by how challenging it is to pick up a habit I put down seven years ago. My hamstrings are ticked off and asking why I can’t just find fulfillment in binge watching Parenthood on Hulu.

Prompted by my aching legs, I resurrected this flow from the early days of teaching my class The Crux; my hamstrings are accepting the olive branch. With my around one arch I create a flow weaving my free leg through the band as the position of my banded leg changes. (You could adapt for your low back by planting the free foot on the floor vs. taking that leg low when your banded leg is high.) I progress the sequence into a single leg bridge which makes this a great pre-run series for rehabbjng your hamstrings and activating your glutes before hitting the pavement. 🏃🏻‍♀️

08/15/2022

Martial arts training in Central Park yesterday. I was inspired by the organic beauty of people getting outside to move and the soundtrack of live string in the background. Sometimes we make movement (and our relationship with it) so complicated: but it really can be this simple. ✌🏻

07/14/2022

Lift weights, live longer?

That’s what recent studies suggest.

According to the British Journal of Sports Medicine, an analysis of 16 studies involving people 18 to 98 years of age, found that those who spent 30 to 60 minutes/week in strength training had:

- 40% lower risk of premature death
- 46% lower risk of heart disease
- 28% lower risk of dying from cancer

As the body ages, our muscles lose size and strength. Between 40 & 50 years of age 🙋🏻‍♀️, the avg. person loses more than 8% of their muscle size.

Dr. Gabe Mirkin breaks it down for us like this: every muscle in your body is made up of thousands of muscle fibers just as a rope is made up of many strands. Every muscle is innervated by a single nerve fiber. With aging we lose nerves, and when we lose a nerve attached to a muscle fiber, that muscle fiber is lost too. Here’s something really eye-opening: a 20-year-old may have 800,000 muscle fibers in the vastus lateralis muscle in the upper leg, but by age 60, that muscle would have only about 250,000 fibers! For a 60-year-old to have the same strength as a 20-year-old, the average muscle fiber needs to be three times as strong.

While we cannot stop the loss of muscle fibers that comes with aging, we can enlarge each muscle fiber AND slow down the loss of strength by lifting weights.

For weight training as part of a total body workout, check out my live online class The Greatest HIIT offered on Saturdays at 9am.

06/26/2022

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No one, not the government, not politicians, not the Supreme Court should prevent access to abortion, birth control and contraceptives. People should have the FREEDOM to choose. Friday’s decision impacts everyone and it will particularly affect poor women who can’t afford to travel to access care.

We will stay active, we will not back down and we will never give up.

Elections have consequences, please join us. Text CHOICE to 855-813-VOTE.

06/20/2022

In his memoir, Lululemon founder Chip Wilson talks about changing the path he took to ride his 🚴 to work each day in order to see what was changing around him.

In our relationship with movement, changing the path we take with a run-of-the-mill posture can give us a unique lens on what is changing within us.

This bridge lift with a smash ball is my variation on a glute bridge with a bench (or, some folks do them leaning against a chair). Because of the elevation and instability of the ball compared to the ground, you have to engage your glutes, abs, and quads even more to lift your body up. I elected to place my hands behind my head to support my neck, and I like that doing so provided even more healthy chaos to the move! 🔥

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