by Cathy Purnell | Apr 8, 2019 | Community, Fitness, Fitness & Exercise, Motivation
The 10 year Anniversary of the opening of our Menlo Park studio has given me pause to reflect and look back and how my own life has changed since 2009. There are a few more candles on my birthday cake and more “laugh” lines on my face. All a testament to a decade of a...
by Lizzie | Mar 26, 2019 | Community, Fitness & Exercise, Motivation
Those of you who take my class frequently have heard me joke about cuddle parties and eye contact parties (yes, they are a thing). And while we often laugh off those ideas as yet another “weird Bay Area thing”, it’s actually not niche or fringe. Activities like...
by Marlene | Mar 11, 2019 | Fitness, Fitness & Exercise, Functional Fitness, Mobility, Motivation, Nutritious Movement
Your body is a system of systems that work together to help you functionally move in everyday life as well as perform better in every activity you engage in. Why would you treat your body as separate parts on your workout days? We’ve all heard the infamous line from...
by Lizzie | Feb 25, 2019 | Fitness, Fitness & Exercise, Mobility, Motivation, Myofascial Self Massage, Nutritious Movement
Earlier this month, I had the incredible opportunity to spend the weekend at 1440 Multiversity to take a course on Dynamic Aging co-taught by movement and yoga/mobility pioneers Katy Bowman and Jill Miller. While I am still processing all of the juicy content from the...
by Marlene | Jan 25, 2019 | Community, Fitness & Exercise, Functional Fitness, Mobility, Motivation, Myofascial Self Massage, Nutritious Movement
LISTEN NOW Alkalign Founder Erin Jennings Paruszewski was recently featured on Drew Taddia’s podcast, Exploring Mind and Body. In the episode, Improve Your Functional Movement, Erin talks about what Alkalign is and why everybody needs mobility and...
by Marlene | Jan 24, 2019 | Community, Fitness & Exercise, Motivation
Every February we gather and ride to raise money via Cycle for Survival, a a rare cancer research fundraiser that supports Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. We ride because we have been touched by cancer, or because someone we love has, or because we see 1.7...
