Tag: fitness pittsburgh

September Newsletter

  September 1, 2014, Volume 5, Issue 9 Why wait for January? Fall is the perfect time to launch a diet and fitness program. During the free-form days of summer, vacations, picnics, & carefree attitudes can all get in the way of healthy eating & weight control. January may be the traditional time to start […]

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Hiking in Acadia National Park

About a week ago we have the opportunity to visit our son Kieran who was interning in Bath, Maine this summer. We were able to climb, I say climb because hiking would not be the word, as there were no switch backs, Cadillac Mt. in Acadia National Park. We had a great day with Kieran […]

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Mother Nature CAN Be your Gym!

Greening the Mind-Look what a walk in the woods can do! Think what more a swim or kayak ride can do for our body and soul. Stay tuned for more outdoor activity info on our FB page! Journalist Florence Williams traveled to N.Japan in ’12 to investigate research indicating that walking in a green forest […]

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Working Americans Get Little Exercise

70% of working Americans get little or no physical activity. Exercise has shown to improve work performance, attendance and satisfaction. Contact us to see what services we can offer your employees to increase their healthy lifestyles! Fitness classes, coaching, personal training, lectures, workshops, walking programs, lunch and learns.

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Fall Fitness Classes open to everyone-In Pittsburgh

  Fall Fitness Classes open to the public in Pittsburgh Blackridge-Churchill: Trendsetters-Active Older Adult Fitness,Yoga, Belly Dancing Downtown Pittburgh Federal Building : Core Training, Strength & Belly Dancing Imperial PA by International Airport: Belly Dancing See our Group Exercise link on our web-site              

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FREE 28 Days to a Healthier You Program through ACE!!

Sign up for ACE’s 28 Days to a Healthier You program until August 15th FREE. 28 Days to a Healthier You  is designed to help you adopt healthy habits long term through a series of small tasks given each day. I Encourage you to register to  complement your current activity. You will receive daily motivational […]

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Meditation Boosts WELLNESS

Meditation Boosts WELLNESS-quieting the mind & practicing presence carries innumerable benefits. MINDFULNESS mediation- may play a role in preventing depression relapse and in managing chronic pain. MEDITATION changes yours brain. Long-term mediators have more gyrification (folding) in the cortical brain than people who don’t meditate. The extra folds may help regulate distractions and improve cognitive […]

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Chronic Pain

CHRONIC PAIN… in numbers! Many of us are in pain. What are we doing about it? Chronic pain-pain that has lasted more than 3 months-is epidemic worldwide. 1.5 billion are feeling its effects. Here are some stats and facts about how chronic pain affects our lives…according to the Institute of Medicine, more than 116 million […]

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Belly Dancing Shimmies into the Suburbs!

  Belly Dancing has come to the West Hills for the first time! Drive down Steubenville Pike in Imperial and you might just hear the jingle of coin skirts shaking to Egyptian music and laughter as women of all ages, shapes and sizes move the music that ranges from a powerful tribal beat to a […]

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Body Toning Belly Dancing Starting!

We are starting Body Toning Belly Dancing classes at the Federal Building in Downtown Pittsburgh starting Tuesday February 19th 12:10-12:50 pm. We will run 6-week sessions. See our Federal Building classes link on our web-site

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