Life of a showgirl

The album just dropped! What are your thoughts and favourites?

I wasn’t a swiftie until M/Body converted me and now (Taylor’s Version) is my fave 60 min workout. So thank you Marnie!

All I have to say is that my life would be complete if we got an M/Body cardio dance to Life of a Showgirl. Please please please Marnie I need it sooner than later 🫶🫶🫶

WE BACK!

And we missed all of you 💋 9am PT tomorrow, we’ll see you for a 20 min Arm Dance!

p.s. it’s our first class with our new theme 😏

XOXO

Ollie loves being on the mat almost as much as me 😋

Hi! I wrote a poem today and part of it has been inspired my Marnie’s ending meditations so I thought I would share with the community.

The steady march of my years—  

All 41 of them—keeps the machine  

Well-oiled and maintained.  

I lower my hand to my dogs,  

Feeling their gentle, loving licks,  

Taking bits of my fingerprint  

Into their own DNA that carries no guilt. 

My heart squats in my stomach,  

Lowering itself to reach the ground  

That catches me every time;  

The older one gets, the closer they feel  

To the earth that patiently awaits. Acceptance of life and death is like a steady chair,  

Unbreakable as you rest and wait  

For time to pass and bend.

Not all human bones endure;  

The collagen in our skeletons decays. Layers of what once were our bodies Become the only lingering trace  

That our dogs would continue to chase. 

Now, in the autumn of my life, 

I await the winter snow with ecstatic delight,  

Ready to feel the flakes blinding my sight. Into a blissful endless white, I go,  

Never trying to wipe away the snow.  

Even if I fall, the snowy Earth will catch me,  

And she will whisper "Steady on!"

I’ve been hitting the mat I promise 😂 I squeezed the recent 45/signature in while big kids are at school, toddler naps and laundry is running!

First class back after giving birth to my sweet baby boy, Aaron! 💙

I’m about 8 weeks postpartum and even though I’ve been sooooo ready to get back to my M/body for the last few weeks it’s been hard to find the time, even why baby boy sleeps, I want to hold him and soak up all the baby snuggles!

Tonight I just got the urge (yes at almost midnight my sleep schedule is all sorts of crazy right now! 😂) that I needed some Marnie and did the latest restore class and loved every second of it! This was the perfect class to return to! It felt so good to move my body, but honestly so strange to do it alone for the first time in several months! I miss the kicks and hiccups I felt daily, but love that I can run over and snuggle him whenever I want now, which I did post class! 🥰

I can’t explain how happy I am to be back on the mat, but I’m beginning with the intention that I’m not “bouncing back” I’m not who I was before and I’m not trying to get back to her, instead, I’m ready to get back into movement to honor this new body that carried life and continues to carry me. My intention is to tend to it with care, to grow strong, and to nurture myself so I can show up fully for my family. 💜

I don’t think I would be able to give myself this gift of taking care of myself like this had I not had 5 years of Marnie’s encouragement!

When the form of the morning’s M/BODY Posture Perfect class is seen out in the wild: one leg forward, hips squared, soft face, getting the cake onto the table around some energetic and bouncy nine year olds. Probably dropping a cuss word in my mind with a ‘holy moly!’ said out loud. 😂

When I saw this poem I thought it fit perfectly with our theme of presence.

PS Yvonne Riley and I agree with Marnie’s newsletter book recommendation!

I just listened to the glucose q & a.

Thank you for that input, I always find it very helpful!

So this morning we went out on the boat, got that sunlight, got nature, saw a lot of dolphins. But I also had a cappuccino and a croissant.

Perfect harmony 🌈 for me.

There is this saying in German:

the dose makes the poison.

Which I love, because it is so true….

Wishing everyone a beautiful summer!