Fall Yoga Curriculum at KAIZEN

Morning Glory Yoga
Beyond the Postures
Yoga for Healing
Yoga Primer Workshops
“Fierce Grace” ~ Dance, Yoga & Pilates Hybrid
Yoga Basics : An Invitational Series

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Morning, Afternoon, Evening & Weekend Classes. 30 years yoga teaching experience with 10 years in Rockbridge County. RYT500 Registered Yoga Teacher. Private, comfortable studio with all Spa Shower Amenities included. No monthly studio fees. Small class sizes.

SPECIAL EVENT November 20th >> Yoga & Chocolate

Friday 11/20 6:30 – 8:30 pm $35

Mindfulness practice through 90 minutes of vibrant yoga, fantastic music, and gourmet chocolate tasting. Class size limited. Spa shower rooms available.

Freeing You to Really Love the Life You Live

Are you fed up with struggling with your weight and keeping up with your fitness program?

Is getting to the gym and then guessing what is the best thing to do there just another stress? 

Have you found yourself finding a groove a few weeks into a fitness and diet program only to scrap it all because life gets in the way?

Do you know what to do to be healthy and fit, but just can't seem to do it?

Does your body support you to fully enjoy the finer things in life?

At KAIZEN Wellness we help busy professionals and working parents develop a lifestyle that works for you and the achievement of your dreams and goals rather than against you. Finally, we no longer need to trade poor health, fatigue, and an overweight body for success.  Are you living one way and then trying to change the results with heroic efforts like dieting and strictly controlled exercise? Are you overwhelmed, overweight, and tired of feeling tired? We can help.

Our time and energy are at a premium in a world that keeps increasing speed. 

Healthy, high achievers have an active lifestyle plan, one that requires no more of their time and energy (once they've passed through the learning curve). These 'vitality leaders' approach wellness and health in the context of performance and success. This real-life holistic strategy increases the capacity of our lives and naturally results in greater health, happiness, energy, and success.  KAIZEN Wellness is passionate about leading you forward to co-create a life you can live from a position of strength  and positive spirit.

The secret is "lifestyle fitness", a holistic strategy that builds fitness development organically into the way you live. Lifestyle fitness is extremely personal; it naturally honors your time, energy, nourishment, and overall feeling of readiness. Part mindset and part practical solution, its an approach that is as flexible and dynamic as your own life. 

There is no program for you to go on and off... your lifestyle is the program. 

It's all about you! KAIZEN Wellness provides the expert education, inspiration, and support you need to make positive life changes that are simple, powerful and sustaining. Are you ready to upgrade your life from 'good' to 'great'? If not now, when?

Imagine having all the energy you need to do the things you love to do. Imagine feeling good about your body and where it can take you. Can you get free from thinking that becoming overweight and ill is an inevitable function of age?  It's time to change your mind.

Lifestyle fitness results in less guilt, less worry, better health, and more freedom. 

There is no need to be endlessly preoccupied with weight, diet, obsessive exercise or long-term health issues. There is a practical, real-life solution. KAIZEN Wellness will challenge and coach you to create the successful lifestyle that is your birthright.

"Kaizen"... What does it mean?

"Kaizen" is a poetic Japanese word with many English translations. At its simplest, it means "continuous improvement". "Kai" means "ongoing", "continuous", and "ocean", while "Zen" translates as "wisdom", "good", and "improvement".

Robert Maurer, Phd., the leading expert in applying the principles of Kaizen to personal development and the author of "One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way" defines Kaizen as 

"small incremental steps in a spirit of continuous improvement".

We at KAIZEN Wellness have recognized, through our almost 30 years of experience working with thousands of clients, that the most consistently reliable success strategy for making sustainable lifestyle change is to take a long series of micro-steps.  These micro-steps are co-designed to be virtually fail-proof. Building upon each small success naturally builds your enthusiasm, confidence and positive momentum. There is certain magic that occurs when we finally stop punishing ourselves and begin a more positive relationship with our body and our spirit.

Shifting from the familiar launch into heroic (and often punishing) regimes into a slower, kinder, more gentle approach is obviously more pleasurable and fun. Surprising to most, it is also proven to be much more effective - naturally igniting breakthrough client results. This powerful secret of those enviable 'vitality leaders' supports the creation of lifestyles of health, happiness, and sustainability.

Our own working definition of "Kaizen" is

"Great success achieved by continuous, positive change".

Lifestyle Fitness & Personal Wellness Systems

Here is a secret that most exercise professionals don't want you to know: the truth is there is no perfect fitness program. There is only a highly personalized perfect approach to fitness. Life is dynamic. It changes continuously, often quickly, making it too easy to get derailed from your fitness and healthy eating plans. The evolution of post-modern fitness and wellness leads us to intentionally get 'off the program' and into a wellness oriented lifestyle. In order to really thrive we need our own personal fitness and wellness system in place.

The human condition is marked by time constraints and the need for basic scheduling. However, when we embrace an 'organic' and functional approach to fitness, we can schedule exercise naturally. The perfect fitness and wellness system works with the ebb and flow of your changing lifestyle. This makes us immune to the dependencies and inconveniences that get in our way.

A lifestyle approach naturally results in health, fitness, and success.

It really is very possible to create a fitness and wellness plan that actually works for you, if you change the way you think. If your strategy is not lifestyle-based, and flexible to your schedule, then it's not a system, it's a program - and you'll be on it a very short period of time. Instead, imagine the freedom, happiness, and success that you will easily achieve when you become a master of lifestyle and learn to build natural health and fitness development into the way you live. 

Honor your time, energy, nourishment, and overall feeling of readiness.

When these factors are established as determinants for our fitness and wellness activities, we naturally become more consistent, satisfied, and inspired. For an approach to be considered an authentic "Personal Wellness System", it must meet the following criteria:

1.   it deals with human energy management
2.  it is co-created with a professional, meaning a collaboration 

               precisely focused on the clients' goals and success.

3.  it's adaptable and realistic, always based on flexible strategies 

             and tactics (anytime, anyplace).
4.  it is holistic and lifestyle-based.
5.  it enlists a natural approach to fitness development, meaning 

                    it favors:     ~ functional fitness training techniques 

                                ~ highly individualized progressions                                                                        ~ outdoor recreational activities

Our lifestyle must respond to our current society and culture if we wish to survive it. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease, fatigue and many types of cancer are the result of our lifestyle. If we wish to thrive we must make a conscious commitment to the evolution of our lifestyle. At KAIZEN Wellness we are inspired and dedicated to provide our client-partners with the knowledge, motivation and support to create lifestyles that lead them toward their dreams.

This will liberate you in a way that nothing else can.

The 15 Client Deliverables

     During a premium-quality coaching session, there are a number of different type things that the coach delivers to the client. These deliverables then lead directly to positive client outcomes. Each of these deliverables can, and do, add value to the coaching experience. 

This creates a clear distinction between 'run of the mill' fitness training and the far superior approach of lifestyle fitness coaching. A fitness trainer will focus on one area of your life for the period of time you have scheduled and paid for. In contrast, a lifestyle fitness coach/trainer commits to your success in a holistic way that goes beyond any scheduled appointments, and spans the time between your sessions together. 

Your coach/trainer is dedicated to your success: body, mind, and spirit, and is always seeking ways to support your goals and dreams. More than a personal trainer, a lifestyle fitness coach is a key player on your own "Personal Wellness Team". Every great leader has a team of trusted advisors. You are the leader of the great performance game called "Your Life". Don't you deserve the same kind of knowledge, inspiration, motivation and dedication? We think so.

Coaching's 15 Client Deliverables

This list is an adaptation of a list developed and presented to me by Thomas Leonard (the undisputed father of the coaching profession and one of my teachers), and the leaders at Coachville.com and The School of Coaching (now called the Thomas Leonard  School of Coaching).

1.  Perspective ~  The coach provides fresh or different ways of looking at a situation.

2.  Validation ~  The coach validates via encouragement and acknowledgment.

3.  Message ~  The coach shares fitting knowledge, opinions, or wisdom.

4.  Energy ~  The coach provides energy and support as needed.

5.  Solution ~  The coach shares a solution to a problem or issue.

6.  Plan ~  The coach c0-develops a plan of action with the client.

7.  Structure ~  The coach provides support and a check-in structure for the client.

8.  Resource ~  The coach suggests/refers client to experts, books, tools, assessments.

9.  Options ~  The coach expands the number of options the client thought they had.

10. Caring ~  The coach cares via listening, patience, safety, and love.

11. Training ~  The coach trains clients in personal or business skills.

12. Advice ~  The coach provides advice via recommendations and suggestions.

13. Strategy ~  The coach develops or co-develops a personal or business strategy.

14. Feedback ~  The coach offers feedback, observations, insights, ideas and opinions.

15. Challenge ~  The coach provides a challenge to the client to stretch or make a change.

At KAIZEN Wellness Studio, we are passionate about, and totally committed to, your success... how about you? If you are tired of the status quo, and frustrated by feeling fatigued, fat, and uncomfortable, then perhaps its time for real, sustainable change. And if not now, when? 

 CLICK HERE  for a series of complimentary self-assessments and information on how to set up a meeting to determine if we can create a Win/Win client-partnership.